Printing script format

If each of your projects requires the printing of a certain set of layer configurations, it can be time consuming and prone to errors to configurate the printer new every time. In such situation it is easier to control the printing by the use of a written command (script). How such a script in TARGET 3001! might look like is explained here.

The TARGET 3001! printings can comfortably be controlled by a script language. One script can create several different printings. Every line contains one command. The script commands reflect the settings in the printing dialog. Each line not starting with a key word automatically is recognized as a comment line.

The key words and the command syntax of the TARGET 3001! print scripts are illustrated as follows:

Clear

sets the standard settings:
- not rotated
- not mirrored
- not inverted
- black and white, if schematic
- 1 copy
- blackness 100%
- not only centering drills
- no pictograms
- no background color
- print groundplane lines
- PCB outline counts, if board
- not fit to page
- centered
- scale 100%
- offsetX 0
- offsetY 0
- correction X 1
- correction Y 1
- all pages, if schematic
- no variants
- variant components not invisible
- layers are not subject to change

Printer=Name,Duplex,A4

Select printer by it's name, if applicable Duplex or paper size A5-A2, Legal, Letter, CSheet, DSheet, ESheet

Name=Job

Denominate print job, therefore assign name of the print job
The following keywords will be replaced:
- #P by the project name without extention
- #F by the file name with extention
- #D by the current date yyyy-mm-dd
- #T by the current time hh-mm
- #V by the name of the variant
- #R by the name of the revision
- #Q by the name of the variant-revision

Path=C:\Test\...

Assume path for the output file (works since V16.5.0.55 and only with the PDF printer FreePDF-XP). The same keywords will be replaced like in "Name=". In the PDF dialog this is the filename for the PDF.

Print

Execute print job, print sheet(s). If "PDF" can be found in the printer's name, you are asked after the "Print" command, whether the printer is ready again. "Print" does not work, if you are in the PDF dialog.

PDF

Save the PDF file to the "Path". "PDF" does not work, if you are in the printing dialog.

Portrait

Sheet in portrait

Landscape

Sheet in landscape

Mirror=True/False

Mirror?

Inverted=True/False

Invert?

Color=True/False

Black-white?

Copies=1

Number of copies

Blackness=100

Grade of blackness in percent

SmallDrill=True/False

Only centering drillings?

Pictograms=True/False

Drillings as pictograms?

BackGround=True/False

Print background color?

GroundLines=True/False

Print ground lines?

PCBOutline=True/False

PCB outline counts?

SheetFit=True/False

Fit to sheet?

Center=True/False

Centering to the sheet?

Scale=100

Scale in percent

OffsetX=0

Horizontal offset in mm

OffsetY=0

Vertical offset in mm

CorrectX=1.0

Horizontal adjustment factor

CorrectY=1.0

Vertical adjustment factor

Pages=No/All/1-3

Which pages get printed? No (= only the current page); All; 1-3 (= pages one to three)

Variants=True/False

Print variants?

HideVariant=True/False

Shall variant parts be faded out?

Variant=Clear/Special

Print this variant as well. The name of the variant will be passed. Clear = reset all variants

LayerOff=All/0,1,2,23

These layers will be faded out. All = all

LayerOn=0,1,2,23

These layers will be faded in

LayerButton=3

This programmed layer button in the sidebar will be pressed and the layers contained get faded in

ShowNames=True/False

Show the component names in schematic view?

ShowValues=True/False

Show the component values in schematic view?

View=SCH/PCB

Toggle to the schematic or PCB view.