--- In [email protected], NdK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > yajeed2000 ha scritto: > > > For final pcb artwork use the plot output and NOT the print output. > But it "moves" the text in my test board, possibly introducing short > circuits. > Else I wouldn't have asked :-) > > > Print output is only for basic checking of the layout and for > > communicating with other people in a team or for documentation purposes. > Weren't known problems limited to scaling? > If it was only a scale problem, I could simply correct scaling > factors... But it changes pad shape! And *that* can't be easily > corrected. What's even stranger is that, when *not* using "accurate > scale", print preview have the right pad shape, that gets lost in actual > print :-?
>From what I've read in these forums, printing directly from the PCB app is discouraged. The emphasis seems to be on plotting a Gerber file. Then if you want to print to say a laser printer (which I would argue is *very* useful for prototyping using toner transfer so why not have it print accurately straight from the PCB app??? - but I digress) you can print from the Gerber viewer utility. I'm happy to stand corrected... Chris.
