* add VARIANT and VARIANT_DESC to the list of known vars in the drawing
sheet editor.
* cache variant and variant description in respective objects.
* expand the respective text variables when building the drawing sheet.
* keep the cached variant and its description up-to-date when selecting
a variant in the GUI.
* pass variant and its description to the plotters.
Fixes https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/23430
The DXF exporter was missing the $INSUNITS header variable, which tells
CAD software what physical units the drawing coordinates represent. Without
it, other programs have no reliable way to determine the coordinate scale.
Add $INSUNITS to the HEADER section alongside the existing $MEASUREMENT
variable. When exporting in millimeters, $INSUNITS is set to 4; when
exporting in inches, it is set to 1.
Fixes https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/23181
fmt {:g} will sometimes put in scientific notation, e.g. 1.0e6 when we
pass some sizes of numbers. PDF doesn't accept scientific notation for
numbers, so make sure we convert those. Postscript seems to accept these
just fine so limit the fix to PDF.
I don't know that we were hitting these before, but my previous fix for
the background position caused some exponentially formatted numbers.
This requires us not resetting PS/PDF's lineStyles
with a "move" instruction.
Also fixes DXF to handle arcs in SHAPE_LINE_CHAINs,
even if it doesn't handle lineStyles.
Creates a Type-3 representation of our stroke font, embeds it in the PDF
and then causes text to be represented in that font.
This prevents the need for over-stroking and keeps our PDFs searchable
and accessible
Recommendation is to avoid using the year nomenclature as this
information is already encoded in the git repo. Avoids needing to
repeatly update.
Also updates AUTHORS.txt from current repo with contributor names
* To select a footprint info, Use the bbox with not text as selectable area
* Fix also incorrect position of footprint bbox when plotting with offset
Fixes https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/17355
- in DXF coordinates were using 6 digits for coordinate mantissa: this is not
enough for coord in inches. Now use 16 digits
- Arc( VECTOR2I& aCentre, EDA_ANGLE& aStartAngle, EDA_ANGLE& aEndAngle, ...)
was using integers for coord. This creates significant errors for start point
and end points of the arc. Now the center is given in double, and its position
is calculated from angle end points (and radius) to do not generate a position error
for these end points (previously the error could be 20 ... 50 nm)
Fixes#15056https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/15056
Old PLOTTER::Text is not (yet) removed, but it use negative text size
to mirrored text, which is not really compatible with some plotters (especially PDF).
Using TEXT_ATTRIBUTES is much easy and much better,
so PLOTTER::PlotText() is added.
Note: "old" PLOTTER::Text() is not removed yet.
Bernhard Kirchen