On 6 Sep 2009, at 13:29, Piers Goodhew wrote:
> Uh, yeah, but the entire point of my post is that the direct printing
> is strangely smeared - that's what the pictures are of. Interested to
> see if it's just a mac thing, or a me thing.
>
> PG
I would say it is a mac thing at the moment. I have Eagle 5.6.0 and
Mac OSX 10.5.8.
As far as I knew pretty well all printing on the mac is accomplished
by generating postscript (a PDF) and then sending that to the printer.
Thus a preview is a PDF file.
I took a simple board, suppressed all layers except the pads and
printed out the board.
The 'smearing' you see looks like the fill and the outline are
misaligned for the holes in the pads. No idea yet which is in the
right place or what to do about it but I thought I would drop in a
message to say you are not alone or seeing things.
Then, to double check, I printed straight to a PDF. Twice, once for
each printer I have. In both cases the generated PDF is correct and
shows no alignment issues.
I can't find anything about this on the Cadsoft newsgroups at the
moment.
Now I come to look at it, the process of printing on OSX for Eagle is
downright odd. Both printer setup and Print have horribly overlapping
functionality.
Pete Harrison
www.micromouseonline.com