[Solved in 8.0.0] Schematics Bug: Printing PDF, the file is without connections

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I had to print in PDF the following schematics (I post here just a section)

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Here the exporting settings (however nothing changes by changing them)
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and here the result
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instead of by plotting it, everything is fine.

Application: KiCad Schematic Editor x64 on x64

Version: 7.0.10-71-g9ceace2a47, release build

Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.2.4
FreeType 2.12.1
HarfBuzz 8.2.1
FontConfig 2.14.2
libcurl/8.4.0-DEV Schannel zlib/1.3

Platform: Windows 11 (build 22631), 64-bit edition, 64 bit, Little endian, wxMSW

Build Info:
Date: Jan 17 2024 04:13:52
wxWidgets: 3.2.4 (wchar_t,wx containers)
Boost: 1.83.0
OCC: 7.7.1
Curl: 8.4.0-DEV
ngspice: 41
Compiler: Visual C++ 1936 without C++ ABI

Build settings:
KICAD_SPICE=ON

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I checked the result of printing printout of some of my projects - all trie

I checked the printing results for some of my projects - the printout looked ok (used also the builtin Microsoft Print To PDF driver). So until now this is not reproducible for me.

You could attach a small project. And include your used JSON color-file, because this could be relevant for this issue.

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it’s the default one

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Your screenshot (first picture) looks somehow customized. My kicad default color theme has not that yellow background, and also not that black symbols and also not that black wires.

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the yellow background is: right click on the rectangle and chose for the background color.

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So this is most probably no generic “printing doesn’t works”, it’s specific to your schematic, maybe due to the use of colored graphics.
We need a example to reproduce the issue (and then decide if this can be fixed).

Note that z-ordering of objects (wires in front/behind of something) is not supported in kicad, so it could be that the result is different depending on the output device (display, print, plot).

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Please here it is
KicadISSUES.zip (170.4 KB)

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Yes, with that example I can reproduce the issue.
some findings:

  • it’s really the filled rectangle which disturbs the printing - printing in general is working ok.
  • the printing works in kicad v8, albeit I don’t know if reliable or accidentally
  • if you provide such a example directly from the start you save my time, your time and much discussion (This also applies to open gitlab issues)
  • I will link your example to the gitlab-issue, so it can be reproduced there also
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There was a bug fix for filled rectangles in pdf, in 7.99 and soon after 7.0.10 release

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Confirmed: solved in 8.0.0