Compilation on macOS about plotkicadsch HOT 21 CLOSED

I developped this on a debian testing system and it worked. When ported to Ubuntu, it failed with the same error. I'll try fixing it, stay tuned.

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Thank you - I was also trying an alternative (eeshow https://neo900.org/stuff/eeshow/ )but that just spirals into an annoying dependency hell related to problems building for x-windows on macOS. Would prefer not to have to run everything in a virtual environment!

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Did you have any further thoughts on this? I have been writing a visual diff for Kicad pcbnew with a web output https://github.com/Gasman2014/KiCad-Diff but would quite like to get something similar working for schematics. Your notes on smudge/clean were very helpful to me.

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The export to svg of already existing schematic files is still working (plotkicadsch), but the git library for extracting the files at a given reference has undergone a lot of changes and I hadn't much time to try to fix it.

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JFTR, I fixed the ocaml-git interface. I had a look at your graphical comparison script and it seems your image magick scripts are much more advanced than mine. I will maybe borrow you some ideas. Thanks.

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Hi @Gasman2014

I have a few questions concerning your last comment:

• I didn't specify the font to be Times New Roman. The generated svg file does not contain any reference to a font in fact. Only font sizes are set up according to what's available in the sch file. Where are you seeing this? Can you attach a screen copy?
• Right now the program is able to manage hierarchical sheets, but it is not able to differentiate which one of multiple instances of a sheet was changed: it's only a file based difference, and the default references for components are used. Is it the problem you are referring to?

Jean-Noël

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The font thing is not a major problem but here are a couple of pairs of screenshots;

There are some minor positioning errors - the input label, for instance, is on the other side.
Ignore the hierarchical sheet comment - I was failing to load in the necessary library.

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Text block alignments are not correctly managed when there are rotations or mirrors.

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Just a heads up to say that the texts should now be correctly handled.

Relying on the default font is not an option. Which font would you prefer?

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For the fonts, I just chose a mono font. The one used in Kicad cannot be found as a system one. Did you notice any difference?

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Version 1.4 does not include the fix for the font, but the latest Git does. The SVG viewer might be picky about font specifications.

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I was able to reproduce the serif-font issue with Firefox. The latest version forces a sans-serif font which seems to be understood by Firefox. So it might also help for you.

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Yes, now working. Also like your visual diff - hope that my KiDiff was helpful!

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In fact, the screenshot of visual diff is from the new diffing strategy : diff at the level of drawing primitives and compute a diff in vector image. This allows to zoom at any level. You can try plotgitsch for two directories also (if it can be of use in the case of Fossil).

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