Hi, this is really killing me. I am in Windows 7. In PCBnew I am able to create different track widths through netclasses. On the display it all looks great, I have exactly what I wanted, thicker power lines and so on. When I do preview, lines still look good just like I designed them. Than when I print all tracks are the same thinnest line, even thinner than my minimal default track thickness. Pads are OK, copper pours are OK but just track are single thin lines. It happens if I print or if I save as PDF file. Same if I print from file or from preview.
Is this some bug or there is a setting that needs to be changed for printing. I will greatly appreciate if someone could help me with this. I am trying to do dry laser transfer and this is the only way to do it.
Thank you
OK, I figure it out. It is a problem with W7. It must be something between printed driver and post script? I printed from W8 installed on VMWare on my Mac and it printed as it is suppose to. Mac to the rescue!
Kicad doesn’t have good printing support in general. It is better to plot to pdf and then print the pdf, this is a,much more reliable method.
Dolganoff,
Thank you for the response. Yes, that is exactly as I was doing. I was using Acrobat Pro Distiller to generate a pdf file, so that I could open it in Illustrator to create multiples. And that is where the fun stopped. But than it worked perfectly from W8. So there must be some bug, not necessarily tied to KiCAD, but to W7 printer and PDF drivers. I still have to figure out where is the problem. But as long as I could achieve what I just did, I will print from VMWare and W8.
Thank you!
Even though you have solved the issue: make sure you are using Kicad’s inbuilt PDF exporter, not a ‘pdf printer’ through the print/plot dialogs. If you ‘print to pdf’ you will still be using kicad’s “printing” code and be liable to the issues that can have.
Thank you very much for the response and help on this issue. Interestingly what worked really best for me is opening file in KiCAD on Mac and printing in PDF from there. So I worked in Windows and finished what I was about to do Than I just open the very same file on Mac in KiCAD and print to PDF from there. I will try what you suggested and see how it goes.
Thank you very much for your help!