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How can i get each frame in the schematic in eagle out as pdf, like the schematics on the sparkfun web pages?

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Try PrimoPDF. I used to use it with Pulsonix, until they provided PDF output.

Leon

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I like CutePDF.

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Acrobat Installs a printer which you can select in any print dialog and capture any printjob as a pdf.

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I don’t understand the question. What’s a frame? You mean like the frame that goes around the schematic with the text box on the bottom right?

Everyone here seems to be answering how to print to PDF, when PDF printing is built into Eagle now. File → Print → PDF.

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You are right TheDirty !! I have always been able to use PDF facility even since Eagle Ver5.3.7. Of course, I did not use Eagle before that.

Sarma

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The tip with print->pdf worked fine

Kim

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We face a problem.

when we try to get a pdf, the pads of the resistor and of other components are shown so thin that it won’t be of any purpose while making a Toner transfer PCB.

How to overcome this?

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Make them wider?

Leon

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leon_heller:
Make them wider?

Leon

Little more clarity , Leon ! i was able to call -edit-change- diameter- and /or drill

this is helping only the Vias, but not component pads. While in PCB123 software, we are able to catch the entire area, call properties- pins - type- outer and drill ,there, and all pads are set.

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I don’t use Eagle (thank goodness!) but there must be a way to do it.

Leon

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leon_heller:
I don’t use Eagle (thank goodness!) but there must be a way to do it.

Leon

Thanks Leon.

I have been using PCB123

at times i had to handle some EAGLE files and correct them to suite my taste,

here came the problem

i am also not proficient in these EDA software.

I shall try to explore this specific need and post here sooner.

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To make the pads larger, you have to change them in the library. Then once you’ve saved the library, open the schematic, click on add component, select the changed component, and click OK. Eagle should then prompt you to update other components in the schematic with the revised part. You don’t actually need to place the part for this to work - it’s enough to select it in the add component wizard to cause Eagle to notice the changes.

ps - rhetorical question of the day: why does Leon respond to questions that are eagle specific when he makes it very clear he doesn’t use the software? I’m not trying to offend, but I do find it strange.

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signal7:
“ps - rhetorical question of the day: why does Leon respond to questions that are eagle specific when he makes it very clear he doesn’t use the software? I’m not trying to offend, but I do find it strange.”

Hmmm…

Leon?

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signal7:
To make the pads larger, you have to change them in the library. Then once you’ve saved the library, open the schematic, click on add component, select the changed component, and click OK. Eagle should then prompt you to update other components in the schematic with the revised part. You don’t actually need to place the part for this to work - it’s enough to select it in the add component wizard to cause Eagle to notice the changes.

ps - rhetorical question of the day: why does Leon respond to questions that are eagle specific when he makes it very clear he doesn’t use the software? I’m not trying to offend, but I do find it strange.

Thanks Signal7 !

perhaps Leon also may be right in offering suggestion that could be help the other member apply his/her mind.

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I’ve been designing PCBs for over 30 years!

Leon

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leon_heller:
I’ve been designing PCBs for over 30 years!

Leon

That is GREAT Leon !
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signal7:
To make the pads larger, you have to change them in the library.

Instead of modifying the library, I would just use a bigger part up from there, but still use the actual part on the real board. For example, if I was working with REAL 0805 parts, I might use 1210 size parts in the schematic, so the board had the larger pads.

Just my $0.02