I would appreciate to get text exported in Unicode format instead of vector graphic.
Specifically: components reference and value.
This would make it much easier to modify the resulting output file.
Feature requests should be posted on the bug tracker (after some searching):
Teh intention was, does somebody know if this can be done. Some option?
If caer doesn’t know, I don’t think there will be much hope of it being some sort of ‘hidden’ option that is available to you.
Only scrap of knowledge I can give is the kicad_pcb file and in there the (fp_text …) fields.
If your regular expressions are good you can extract those and get all the info you need. Dunno how important it is to you.
I don’t think we have such an option.
The closest I can think of is plotting as PDF instead of SVG.
The output might depend on your platform.
On my platform (Ubuntu), the result is a PDF where pressing CTRL+A can select the text from the silkscreen.
Sadly, this is probably unsuable for your purpose:
- The selected text seems to be independant from the actual letter shapes on the board.
- When this file is opened in my Inkscape version, the selectable text is gone.
To be honest, KiCad may have surprised me.
Then - by my experience - they would be the worlds only CAE that uses the feature for vector files (SVG, HPGL, …)
The mechanic function of a plotter device is still deep embedded in the knowledge base.
But I haven’ seen one for some time (but on a machine for some missile project, built in the early 80s).
Don’t mind 