Hello, I have started using KiCAD (on Linux and I have a few questions I cant find answers for on the Wiki or in the help file.
First up, in the schematic editor in the page settings dialog where you can select your page size, I can't see an option for changing the page orientation to portrait. Does this option not exist or is it somewhere else? Secondly, I am making an analog synth VCO and noticed none of the components I was using was in the standard libraries. Searching google lead me to this site: http://www.kicadlib.org/ I then searched for a component e.g. LM307N which then lead me to this file: http://www.reniemarquet.cjb.net/oshec/egl_libs4.zip. Inside the archive the "linear" package had the component I wanted in it which is fine. However, the components in that library don't display properly, or rather the text that is the "Pin Name" of each pin overlap each other (this is in the schematic editor) so you cant really read any of the pin labels as they are "on top of each other". So I then started trying to edit the components in the component editor and I can't seem to find a way of "positioning" the blue/greenish text that is the "Pin Name" text, it just seems to put them at the end of the pin. If you don't understand what I am on about I can take a screenshot. So... has anyone else needed these old op-amp components and knows a better library where the components are better designed (for use in the schematic editor) or is there actually a way of positioning the "Pin Name" text to where you want instead of it doing it itself and causing problems....all the standard components seem to be okay. I could just not label the pins but it makes things easier. Thanks!
