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Title: How do I print from the jc schem. program
Post by: Tone Junkie on August 03, 2010, 11:36:36 am

Im trying to print out one of the layouts cant seemt to figure it out. Bill   :huh:

Title: Re: How do I print from the jc schem. program
Post by: bluestone on August 03, 2010, 01:59:16 pm

Do a search on the forum: opening .sch files Much good info...Free downloads... Hope this helps!
Tom

Title: Re: How do I print from the jc schem. program
Post by: EL34 on August 03, 2010, 03:00:51 pm

Hi,
We have a board for PC Express a Jschem here
http://www.el34world.com/Forum/index.php?board=12.0

Title: Re: How do I print from the jc schem. program
Post by: Tone Junkie on August 03, 2010, 03:10:23 pm

I have the program play with it all the time. but I tried to print out a layout from it,  couldnt figure it out, thats why I asked.  :cry: I read everything i thought was relivant but I will go back through and read again. Thanks Bill

Title: Re: How do I print from the jc schem. program
Post by: simonallaway on August 03, 2010, 03:30:14 pm

I was intrigued enough to try myself. Here's what I did:

1) Download a version of JSchem, which was 0.09.36, and start program. I'm on Linux, so I 'ran' the JSchemUnix.bin file.
2) Opened up "Tweed Overdrive Special Layout - DG.sch"
3) Click "File...Export Schematics"
4) Saved to my disk as a PDF.
5) Print the PDF as usual.

I couldn't find a local 'Print' menu item in the program itself, but if it's got good PDF export (which this most certainly has) you don't need one. I added the PDF I made here to demonstrate, but I may remove it later as it'll get old really quickly.

Title: Re: How do I print from the jc schem. program
Post by: EL34 on August 03, 2010, 03:35:01 pm

PC express lets you print from the file menu
You can also export to a .bmp file and then print that in your favorite graphics editor

Looks like Jschem does not have a print function yet

For Jschem you could
Hit the "Prt Scr" button on your PC
The image on the screen is now captured and is on the windows clipboard
Open any graphics editor and paste the clipboard image as a new image
Then you can print the image in your graphics program

I see Simon was typing at the same time as me
I did not see the export PDF function in Jschem
That will work fine.
I now see Jschem exports a few different graphic formats also
.png is one of my favorites

Title: Re: How do I print from the jc schem. program
Post by: Tone Junkie on August 03, 2010, 03:52:19 pm

Thanks Guys your life savers. Bill
PS. I never thought to save it to disk then go that route

Title: Re: How do I print from the jc schem. program
Post by: Tone Junkie on August 03, 2010, 04:38:11 pm

I cant seem to get either one of those ways to work for me. tried saving to disk dont have a floppy wont burn to cd. saved the page the other way no matter what I do it wont print sometimes xp can suck. I will try later . my trigger finger is getting itchy and computer seems to have a big bullsey on it. must walk away, must walk away. :laugh:.

Title: Re: How do I print from the jc schem. program
Post by: simonallaway on August 03, 2010, 04:39:43 pm

Well, you don't need a floppy or a CD to accomplish this.

Try saving it to "My Documents" and see what happens.

Title: Re: How do I print from the jc schem. program
Post by: Tone Junkie on August 03, 2010, 04:55:32 pm

Simonallaway you know my friend I did all of that in several differant ways, I do not know why it didnt work. I stepped outside took a couple deep breaths came back in did the same thing over again this time it worked, I did not do anything differant.
 Came back to tell of my success when I read your message. Thank You to all,
 no bullets through my computer screen and large layout posters are printed so I can begin work. Bill   :angel

Title: Re: How do I print from the jc schem. program
Post by: simonallaway on August 04, 2010, 08:07:59 am

Take solace in the fact that I've worked with computers professionally for almost 20 years now and I still want to shoot them on a regular basis  :wink:

Title: Re: How do I print from the jc schem. program
Post by: EL34 on August 04, 2010, 10:58:07 am

Floppy???
Holy smokes, you still remember and think about using floppy disk?  :rolleyes:

Quote

sometimes xp can suck

  :laugh:
 
There are more ways to get an image on the screen, printed to paper in XP that any other OS I know of.
These things most always boil down to the person sitting in front of the screen

Anywho, looks like you had another go at it and figured it out, which is good.