Hi Gary, What operating system are you using? What version of Gerbv are you running?
I am on Windows 8.1. I just downloaded a recent build of Gerbv from SourceForge. It's gerbv 2.6A, built on July 13, 2016. Both PDF and SVG work for me, (and have worked for at least 3 years) however, I'm not at all pleased with the results. I won't enumerate all of the issues. If you are on Linux or Mac, hopefully the following advice will give you some idea of what the issues are if you want to print full scale (and at full resolution) on a printer. The first thing that I needed to know was the resolution of my printer. I found the information on a spec sheet, 600 DPI. Perhaps your printer is nice enough to show the resolution when you print a test page. Instead of printing the PCB image from Gerbv, I export it to PNG. The PNG output format is capable of reproducing exactly what you see on the screen. It's important to set the desired resolution (600 dpi in my case) down at bottom of the PNG output dialog. The default resolution, 0, results in a really poor rendition of the PCB. Next I use IrfanView, which is a Swiss Army knife for images. (Unfortunately, IrfanView is only available on Windows, though with some fiddling, it has been known to run under Wine on Linux.) On the Image menu in IrfanView, I select Information. I fill in the Resolution fields and click on Change. (PNG files include metadata that most programs, not just Gerbv, fail to fill in.) Depending on what utility you use to print your PCB image, you may or may not have to do this step, but it's what works for IrfanView. Finally, I print from IrfanView. I select "Original size (from image DPI)" for the "Print size". If you use a different utility, you may have to do something like specify an image size, based on your board dimensions. On Windows anyways, most other utilities that can print PNG files have a mind of their own, and they won't do what you tell them to do, even if they have the options to do so. IrfanView is the only program that I have found that doesn't misbehave. Regards, Linda On 2016-07-23 05:50, Gary Dent wrote: > Hi All, > > I have some gerber files for a PCB that I am making. > I want to print off the files that I have in gerbv in a 1:1 ratio. > How can I do this? Also, I am finding that the exporting of the file to > SVG/Postscript format is not functional. > Has any-one else had this problem? > > Regards > Gary Dent > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > What NetFlow Analyzer can do for you? Monitors network bandwidth and traffic > patterns at an interface-level. Reveals which users, apps, and protocols are > consuming the most bandwidth. Provides multi-vendor support for NetFlow, > J-Flow, sFlow and other flows. Make informed decisions using capacity planning > reports.http://sdm.link/zohodev2dev > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gerbv-devel mailing list > Gerbv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gerbv-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What NetFlow Analyzer can do for you? Monitors network bandwidth and traffic patterns at an interface-level. Reveals which users, apps, and protocols are consuming the most bandwidth. Provides multi-vendor support for NetFlow, J-Flow, sFlow and other flows. Make informed decisions using capacity planning reports.http://sdm.link/zohodev2dev _______________________________________________ Gerbv-devel mailing list Gerbv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gerbv-devel
