I filed a bug report for the Windows version so people using RC1 may trip over the bug report.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1496049 Best Regards, Brian. On 15 September 2015 at 17:04, Brian Sidebotham <brian.sidebot...@gmail.com> wrote: > As a PS - I think RC2 looks like it's just round the corner because > not being able to look the help documents is pretty poor. > > There's no links to the documentation in the start menu either so we'd > have to point people to the install directory\share\doc\kicad... etc. > > Best Regards, > > Brian. > > On 15 September 2015 at 17:01, Brian Sidebotham > <brian.sidebot...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Actually the help documentation is broken on Windows too in the RC. >> >> The help is at C:\Program Files\KiCad\share\doc\kicad\help\en\kicad.pdf >> >> The searched paths are like this: >> >> Path >> C:\msys64\mingw64 >> C:\Program Files\KiCad\share\kicad\template\doc\help\en_GB >> C:\Program Files\KiCad\kicad.html >> C:\Program Files\KiCad >> C:\Program Files\KiCad\kicad.html >> C:\Program Files\KiCad >> C:\Program Files\KiCad\share\kicad\template\doc\help\en_GB >> C:\Program Files\KiCad\kicad.pdf >> C:\Program Files\KiCad >> C:\Program Files\KiCad\kicad.pdf >> C:\Program Files\KiCad >> C:\Program Files\KiCad\share\kicad\template\share\doc\kicad\help\en_GB >> C:\Program Files\KiCad\kicad.html >> C:\Program Files\KiCad >> C:\Program Files\KiCad\kicad.html >> C:\Program Files\KiCad >> C:\Program Files\KiCad\share\kicad\template\share\doc\kicad\help\en_GB >> C:\Program Files\KiCad\kicad.pdf >> C:\Program Files\KiCad >> C:\Program Files\KiCad\kicad.pdf >> C:\Program Files\KiCad >> C:\Program Files\KiCad\share\kicad\template\doc\help\en >> C:\Program Files\KiCad\kicad.html >> C:\Program Files\KiCad >> C:\Program Files\KiCad\kicad.html >> C:\Program Files\KiCad >> C:\Program Files\KiCad\share\kicad\template\doc\help\en >> C:\Program Files\KiCad\kicad.pdf >> C:\Program Files\KiCad >> C:\Program Files\KiCad\kicad.pdf >> C:\Program Files\KiCad >> C:\Program Files\KiCad\share\kicad\template\share\doc\kicad\help\en >> C:\Program Files\KiCad\kicad.html >> C:\Program Files\KiCad >> C:\Program Files\KiCad\kicad.html >> C:\Program Files\KiCad >> C:\Program Files\KiCad\share\kicad\template\share\doc\kicad\help\en >> C:\Program Files\KiCad\kicad.pdf >> C:\Program Files\KiCad >> C:\Program Files\KiCad\kicad.pdf >> C:\Program Files\KiCad >> C:\Program Files\KiCad\share\kicad\template\doc\help\en >> C:\Program Files\KiCad\kicad.html >> C:\Program Files\KiCad >> C:\Program Files\KiCad\kicad.html >> C:\Program Files\KiCad >> C:\Program Files\KiCad\share\kicad\template\doc\help\en >> C:\Program Files\KiCad\kicad.pdf >> C:\Program Files\KiCad >> C:\Program Files\KiCad\kicad.pdf >> C:\Program Files\KiCad >> C:\Program Files\KiCad\share\kicad\template\share\doc\kicad\help\en >> C:\Program Files\KiCad\kicad.html >> C:\Program Files\KiCad >> C:\Program Files\KiCad\kicad.html >> C:\Program Files\KiCad >> C:\Program Files\KiCad\share\kicad\template\share\doc\kicad\help\en >> C:\Program Files\KiCad\kicad.pdf >> C:\Program Files\KiCad >> C:\Program Files\KiCad\kicad.pdf >> C:\Program Files\KiCad >> >> It looks like a two-fold problem. The packaging is putting the docs >> under share\doc... where I guess it should be share\kicad\doc along >> with everything else shared for KiCad. >> >> Secondly the paths being search by the program include >> share\kicad\template... which appears wrong. I'd expect it to be >> \share\kicad\doc... >> >> Are these assumptions correct? If so, I can file a bug to be fixed. >> >> Best Regards, >> >> Brian. >> >> On 15 September 2015 at 15:37, Brian Sidebotham >> <brian.sidebot...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On 15 September 2015 at 15:03, Wayne Stambaugh <stambau...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> On 9/14/2015 1:08 AM, Joseph Chen wrote: >>>>> On 09/13/2015 01:36 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: >>>>> The failure above is inevitable, because the running pcbnew is looking >>>>> for file name "pcbnew.pdf", while the actual doc file name installed as >>>>> "Pcbnew.pdf", noticing the mixed-case capital P in the actual file name. >>>> >>>> Good catch. The new documentation pdf generation code must have >>>> inadvertently used Pcbnew.pdf instead of pcbnew.pdf. I just looked at >>>> this in the github kicad-doc repo and this also seems to be the case for >>>> the other pdf files as well. Would one of our doc devs please fix this >>>> before the stable release? Thanks. >>> >>> I've created the issue: https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-doc/issues/156 >>> >>> I'll sort this out so it at least the documentation build produces the >>> correctly named files. >>> >>> Best Regards, >>> >>> Brian. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp