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jnavila / plotkicadsch

This project aims at being able to export Kicad v5 Sch files to structured picture files
https://jnavila.github.io/plotkicadsch/
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Compilation on macOS #2

Closed Gasman2014 closed 6 years ago

Gasman2014 commented 7 years ago

I have managed to compile this on macOS although I have had a few problems. :(

The initial compile failed with a git.unix dependency issue although I have git-unix installed and updated. I changed git.unix to git-unix in the _oasis file and I could then compile and install OK. However, I am now getting Fatal error: exception Plotgitsch.InternalGitError("path not found: /") when I run plotgitsch from within a valid git checkout containing a Kicad project .pro & schematic .sch with a committed revision history.

Any advice?

jnavila commented 7 years ago

I developped this on a debian testing system and it worked. When ported to Ubuntu, it failed with the same error. I'll try fixing it, stay tuned.

Gasman2014 commented 7 years ago

Thank you - I was also trying an alternative (eeshow https://neo900.org/stuff/eeshow/ )but that just spirals into an annoying dependency hell related to problems building for x-windows on macOS. Would prefer not to have to run everything in a virtual environment!

Gasman2014 commented 7 years ago

Did you have any further thoughts on this? I have been writing a visual diff for Kicad pcbnew with a web output https://github.com/Gasman2014/KiCad-Diff but would quite like to get something similar working for schematics. Your notes on smudge/clean were very helpful to me.

jnavila commented 7 years ago

The export to svg of already existing schematic files is still working (plotkicadsch), but the git library for extracting the files at a given reference has undergone a lot of changes and I hadn't much time to try to fix it.

Gasman2014 commented 7 years ago

OK, thanks for the hint - I will have a look and see if I can bend it to my needs. Actually, I don’t want to use git anyway - I would quite like to get the versioning aspect to pull out Fossil scm versions (https://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki) as it has more integrated functionality for my plans.

BW

John

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The export to svg of already existing schematic files is still working (plotkicadsch), but the git library for extracting the files at a given reference has undergone a lot of changes and I hadn't much time to try to fix it.

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jnavila commented 7 years ago

JFTR, I fixed the ocaml-git interface. I had a look at your graphical comparison script and it seems your image magick scripts are much more advanced than mine. I will maybe borrow you some ideas. Thanks.

Gasman2014 commented 7 years ago

Thank you - I will have a go again tomorrow with the ocaml-git interface - just been trying to sort out some python related issues in a new Kicad install :(….

Not sure about ‘advanced’ but hope they work for you - you are very welcome to borrow (as I did from you!)

One of the issues I have struggled with is the seeming random area that pcbnew plots. I am hitting a problem that if you add something OUTSIDE the current board outline, the plot area is adjusted - so it throws off any visual diff. I will have another play with it in a week or two when I get time.

BW

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JFTR, I fixed the ocaml-git interface. I had a look at your graphical comparison script and it seems your image magick scripts are much more advanced than mine. I will maybe borrow you some ideas. Thanks.

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Gasman2014 commented 7 years ago

Managed to get this to compile and run now on macOS - Thank you!. The main issues now are that the font is fixed on TimesNew Roman and I am having problems with hierarchical sheets but I will keep having a play with it (had a bit of a major laptop disaster last week involving a new keyboard replacement in my MacBook Pro - LOTS of small screws). BW

John

On 17 Sep 2017, at 23:56, John Pateman johnpateman@me.com wrote:

Thank you - I will have a go again tomorrow with the ocaml-git interface - just been trying to sort out some python related issues in a new Kicad install :(….

Not sure about ‘advanced’ but hope they work for you - you are very welcome to borrow (as I did from you!)

One of the issues I have struggled with is the seeming random area that pcbnew plots. I am hitting a problem that if you add something OUTSIDE the current board outline, the plot area is adjusted - so it throws off any visual diff. I will have another play with it in a week or two when I get time.

BW

John

On 15 Sep 2017, at 12:35, Jean-Noël Avila <notifications@github.com mailto:notifications@github.com> wrote:

JFTR, I fixed the ocaml-git interface. I had a look at your graphical comparison script and it seems your image magick scripts are much more advanced than mine. I will maybe borrow you some ideas. Thanks.

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jnavila commented 7 years ago

Hi @Gasman2014

I have a few questions concerning your last comment:

Jean-Noël

Gasman2014 commented 7 years ago

The font thing is not a major problem but here are a couple of pairs of screenshots;

screen shot 2017-10-14 at 11 15 31 screen shot 2017-10-14 at 11 14 58 screen shot 2017-10-14 at 11 09 27 screen shot 2017-10-14 at 11 05 57

There are some minor positioning errors - the input label, for instance, is on the other side. Ignore the hierarchical sheet comment - I was failing to load in the necessary library.

jnavila commented 7 years ago

Text block alignments are not correctly managed when there are rotations or mirrors.

Gasman2014 commented 7 years ago

Hi Jean-Noël,

I am pretty sure that the text alignment is OK for the rotated components - I was meaning the 'Input' is the wrong side of the line (see circled item).Providing it is consistent, it isn't a problem, I guess. 

Any idea on the font issue? How are fonts specified? I think Kicad uses its own internal font and renders it in a nonstandard way.

BW

John

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jnavila commented 7 years ago

Just a heads up to say that the texts should now be correctly handled.

Relying on the default font is not an option. Which font would you prefer?

Gasman2014 commented 7 years ago

Hiya

That sounds good!

The kicad default font is a monospaced sans serif. It is also a single line font - like an engraving font. I guess that something similar as possible would be best. I tried out a few samples on various font matching sites and think that, of the ttf fonts, something like Ubuntu mono is a pretty good match (and has a suitable licence).

Alternatively, there are a number of Hershey engraving fonts which are ’single stroke’ (http://climserv.ipsl.polytechnique.fr/documentation/idl_help/Hershey_Vector_Font_Samples.html http://climserv.ipsl.polytechnique.fr/documentation/idl_help/Hershey_Vector_Font_Samples.html) These are available in a off .cxf format - I have used these on my cnc machine- they are installed with inkscape, I think. one of these might also be appropriate? I don’t think there are any licensing issues with these either.

BW

John

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Just a heads up to say that the texts should now be correctly handled.

Relying on the default font is not an option. Which font would you prefer?

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jnavila commented 7 years ago

For the fonts, I just chose a mono font. The one used in Kicad cannot be found as a system one. Did you notice any difference?

Gasman2014 commented 7 years ago

Hi JN,

I have now reinstalled the latest version but I am still getting everything in ‘Times'. From what you say, should now be in mono so not sure what is happening.

To make things ‘cleaner’ I did a fresh ‘opam install plotkicadsch’ in a completely new repo and I am on version 1.4 according to the install log.

The text positioning issue I mentioned previously had been resolved but the font issue unfortunately has not.

BW

John

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For the fonts, I just chose a mono font. The one used in Kicad cannot be found as a system one. Did you notice any difference?

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jnavila commented 7 years ago

Version 1.4 does not include the fix for the font, but the latest Git does. The SVG viewer might be picky about font specifications.

Gasman2014 commented 7 years ago

OK will have play with that (but I have got to get my appraisal and tax return done :(

BW

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Version 1.4 does not include the fix for the font, but the latest Git does. The SVG viewer might be picky about font specifications.

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jnavila commented 6 years ago

I was able to reproduce the serif-font issue with Firefox. The latest version forces a sans-serif font which seems to be understood by Firefox. So it might also help for you.

Gasman2014 commented 6 years ago

Yes, now working. Also like your visual diff - hope that my KiDiff was helpful!

jnavila commented 6 years ago

In fact, the screenshot of visual diff is from the new diffing strategy : diff at the level of drawing primitives and compute a diff in vector image. This allows to zoom at any level. You can try plotgitsch for two directories also (if it can be of use in the case of Fossil).