Homebrew PCBs

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:24 PM, grantfair2001 <grant.fair@...> wrote:
> I can't print any of my many PCB layouts with my new printer.
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> I have a lot of PCBs laid out with Winboard 2.25. (The company selling it went out of business years ago). My old laser printer died so I bought a Dell 1720. It won't run on any software older than WIN2000.
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> I am running XP on a couple of my computers. Winboard is running under WIN95 on some old computers. Winboard does not run under XP.
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> (Someone loaded a patch for Winboard 2.25 to make it 2.27 to a public website. I haven't been able to get it to install).
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> SO I can't print any of my layouts.
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> Does anyone know of other PCB software which could read the Winboard PCB files and runs under XP, so I could print them?
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> Any other solutions?
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> Thanks
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On 1/19/2010 1:24 PM, grantfair2001 wrote:
> I can't print any of my many PCB layouts with my new printer.
>
> I have a lot of PCBs laid out with Winboard 2.25. (The company selling it went out of business years ago). My old laser printer died so I bought a Dell 1720. It won't run on any software older than WIN2000.
>
> I am running XP on a couple of my computers. Winboard is running under WIN95 on some old computers. Winboard does not run under XP.
>
> (Someone loaded a patch for Winboard 2.25 to make it 2.27 to a public website. I haven't been able to get it to install).
>
> SO I can't print any of my layouts.
>
> Does anyone know of other PCB software which could read the Winboard PCB files and runs under XP, so I could print them?
>
> Any other solutions?
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
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> Be sure to visit the group home and check for new Links, Files, and Photos:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Homebrew_PCBsYahoo! Groups Links
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> print to pdf or even post script on the old machine, load on XP and print out.
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> And for WinDraft too.
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> I have many old projects and can't print them out. My old system died 
> and when I tried to install on a win98 system it said that the Key was 
> out of date. I tried every Key that they sent me too.

----- Original Message -----
From: "grantfair2001" <grant.fair@...>
To: "Homebrew PCBs" <Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 4:24:57 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: [Homebrew_PCBs] Winboard pcb layout vs. Dell 1720 laser printer

I can't print any of my many PCB layouts with my new printer.

I have a lot of PCBs laid out with Winboard 2.25. (The company selling it went out of business years ago). My old laser printer died so I bought a Dell 1720. It won't run on any software older than WIN2000.

I am running XP on a couple of my computers. Winboard is running under WIN95 on some old computers. Winboard does not run under XP.

(Someone loaded a patch for Winboard 2.25 to make it 2.27 to a public website. I haven't been able to get it to install).

SO I can't print any of my layouts. 

Does anyone know of other PCB software which could read the Winboard PCB files and runs under XP, so I could print them?

Any other solutions?

Thanks



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> I use to run Winboard on a XP machine.  Was not even installed on the machine.  I had the old drive from the old computer in a external drive case connected to USB on the XP machine.  Go to the Ivex Dir. Winboard then double click on the winboard start file and it would come up and run.  Would get a error when you try to close it.
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> Don't recall the version # but should have been their last version.  I just tried to connect up this old drive it seems to have died.
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> Anyway try copying the Ivex Dir from the old computer to your XP machine and see if it will run.
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> Ben
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On 1/20/2010 11:12 PM, grantfair2001 wrote:
> Thanks. Apparently from posts on the net, Winboard 2.27 works with XP.  I have made some progress with downloading related fi;es and may get it to install, I need time to try things. If that fails, I will try your suggestion.
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> --- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "Ben L"<bhleavi@...>  wrote:
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>> I use to run Winboard on a XP machine.  Was not even installed on the machine.  I had the old drive from the old computer in a external drive case connected to USB on the XP machine.  Go to the Ivex Dir. Winboard then double click on the winboard start file and it would come up and run.  Would get a error when you try to close it.
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>> Don't recall the version # but should have been their last version.  I just tried to connect up this old drive it seems to have died.
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>> Anyway try copying the Ivex Dir from the old computer to your XP machine and see if it will run.
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>> Ben
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