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eeshow - Eeschema schematics renderer and viewer
================================================
Eeshow is a collection of programs to render schematics made by KiCad
Eeschema to FIG, PDF, Postscript, EPS, or PNG, and to generate graphical
differences between different versions of schematics sheets. It can
work in plain files but it can also retrieve design files directly
from a git repository. Furthermore, eeshow has an interactive mode for
viewing schematics and differences.
This work is distributed under the terms of the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC
LICENSE, Version 2:
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
For your convenience, a copy of the complete license has been included
in the file COPYING.GPLv2.
The file page_layout_default_description.cpp is from KiCad and is covered
by the same license.
Prerequisites
-------------
libcairo2-dev
libgit2-dev
libgtk-3-dev
transfig
imagemagick
E.g., on Ubuntu and Debian:
sudo apt-get install libgtk-3-dev libcairo2-dev libgit2-dev transfig \
imagemagick
On Fedora:
sudo dnf install gtk3-devel cairo-devel libgit2-devel transfig ImageMagick
Furthermore, the xsel command-line utility is required for copy & paste.
To build, simply run
make
To install, run as root (e.g., with sudo)
make install
Development status
------------------
Eeshow is still incomplete. It should generally be usable, but still has
many limitations, especially in the following areas:
- not all details are rendered, e.g., pin attributes such as "clock input"
- rendering isn't always exactly the same as in KiCad, e.g., text size may
differ significantly
- interactive use is not streamlined yet, e.g., revision selection
- there may be unknown bugs
More details on pending items can be found in the file TODO.
Non-interactive rendering
=========================
Eeshow can be invoked from the command line to render KiCad schematics
to FIG, PDF, and PNG.
Invocation
----------
The general form of invocation for rendering is as follows:
eeplot -o output [options] file.pro [file.sch]
or
eeplot -o output [options] [-1] [-e] file.lib ... file.sch
The option -o is always required. The filename extension selects the
output driver, and can be overridden with the type: prefix. If selecting
standard output the type prefix is always required, e.g., png:-
If using PDF, the option -1 can be used (after "eeshow") to process only
one sheet, not recursing into sub-sheets. -e enables the rendering of
additional information, e.g., pin types.
For PDF and PNG, the option -s scale can be used to control the size of
the output.
Examples:
eeplot -s 2 -o test.png test.lib test.sch
eeplot -o neo900.pdf neo900.lib kicad-libs/components/powered.lib neo900.sch
eeplot -o neo900-sheet04.pdf neo900.pro neo900_SS_4.sch
More details on the above example can be found in the file DEMO.
Revision access
---------------
If the files are stored in a git repository, a revisions can be selected
by prefixing file names with the commit ID, e.g.,
eeplot -o old.png -s neo900.lib kicad-libs/components/powered.lib \
6a9f71:neo900_SS_5.sch \
Revision selection propagates to dependent files, unless explicitly
overridden. E.g., the above example selects also revision 6a9f71 of
neo900.lib.
Using the component library cache
---------------------------------
Eeschema copies all components it uses to a file named <project>-cache.lib
When operating on files, this library can be used as a convenient
alternative to listing all the libraries that contributed content.
However, when using eeshow with a revision history, the library cache
should only be used if it is also kept in the repository. Otherwise,
library changes in older revisions may get unnoticed.
Overriding the sheet date (experimental)
----------------------------------------
Eeplot can override the sheet date when using the experimental option
-d string The specified string then replaces the date on all sheets.
Example:
eeplot -d "`git log -1 --format='%ai' -s .`" neo900.pro -o neo900.pdf
The date string can also contain the following date formatting options:
%t insert the current time
%s insert the modification time of the sheet file, or the author
date of the commit containing the latest change to the sheet
file
%S like %s, but use the date of the most recently modified sheet
that is part of the plot
%i parse the date string in the sheet
%u insert the date previously obtained with %i
Example:
eeplot -d "%s" ...
All the above formatting options accept a format argument in the form
%{format}x where "format" is a strftime-type string (or stfptime, in
the case of %i) and "x" is the format character. Closing curly braces
can be escaped with %}.
If no format is specified, eeplot uses "%F" for %i (example: 2016-10-28)
and "%F %T %z" for all other options (example: 2016-10-28 17:36:17 -0300).
If %i fails to parse the date string, %u produces an empty string.
An alternative can be selected with the ! prefix for the format
character, which only expands the format if there is no user-provided
date. Example:
eeplot -d "%i%{%D}u%{%D}!s" HEAD:neo900.pro -o neo900.pdf
The HEAD: in the above example makes eeplot retrieve the schematics
from git. Without this prefix, it would use files (and thus the time
they were checked out our locally modified, and not the time they were
changed in the repository).
Date support is still experimental and the syntax may change in future
versions of eeplot.
Non-interactive differences
===========================
Eeshow can render two versions of a sheet to a bitmap and then compare them
pixel by pixel, highlighting areas where differences are found. The output
is written to a PNG file.
Invocation
----------
The general form of invocation for rendering is as follows:
eediff [options] file.pro file.pro
or
eediff [options] file.lib ... file.sch file.lib ... file.sch
The usual options and revision selection can be used here as well.
Example:
LIBS="neo900.lib kicad-libs/components/powered.lib"
eediff -o diff.png -s 2 $LIBS 6a9f71:neo900_SS_5.sch \
$LIBS neo900_SS_5.sch
GUI mode
========
GUI mode allows exploration of schematics and the comparison of different
git revisions. Compared to eeschema, eeshow currently offers the following
additional features:
- access to the git revision history with visual differences between
versions.
- on hover, global labels show on which other sheets the label is used.
Clicking on a name jumps to that sheet.
- fast sheet change with PgUp/PgDn
Invocation
----------
The basic invocation of GUI mode is as follows:
eeshow file.pro
or
eeshow file.lib ... file.sch
If file.sch is in a git repository, eeshow automatically loads the
revision history. The depth of the history can be limited with the
option -N number-of-commits
Examples:
eeshow -N 30 neo900.lib kicad-libs/components/powered.lib neo900.sch
eeshow `sed -n '/pcbnew/q;/^LibName[0-9]*=/{s///;s/$/.lib/p;};d' anelok.pro` \
anelok.sch
Mouse function in GUI mode
--------------------------
Eeshow uses only the left and middle mouse button (both are equivalent)
and the scroll wheel.
Hover show additional details on revisions, sheets, global
labels, index
Click jump to sheet (on sub-sheet, sheet stack, global
label hover box, index), open index page, open history,
select revision
Click and drag pan sheet, scroll history
Scroll wheel zoom in or out; scroll through history
Key functions in GUI mode
-------------------------
+ or = zoom in
- zoom out
* fit to window
Home go to the top sheet
Delete or Backspace go to the next higher sheet in hierarchy
PgUp go to the previous sheet in sequence
PgDn go to the next sheet in sequence
Up or Down invoke the revision history (WIP)
Tab toggle between old and new revision
Esc cancel current action (exit history, close pop-up,
de-highlight glabel, close help)
E show/hide extra information (pin types)
F toggle showing footprints, even if invisible
Shift + R idem, for component references
Shift+D toggle between "diff" and experimental "delta" mode
H show/hide help window
V if hovering on commit, show/hide commit viewer
T toggle performance timer
D when comparing revisions, show difference (default)
N show newer sheet
O show older sheet
Q quit the viewer
Providing documentation
-----------------------
Eeshow can display documentation of components, such as data sheets.
To provide such documentation, create a file consisting of records of
the following form:
component_reference
tag (will be displayed by eeshow)
url (will be passed to the external viewer)
Records are separated by one or more blank lines. The file may contain
comment lines, which begin with a hash sign (#). Comment lines are
ignored and do not act as record separators (unless accompanied by one
or more empty lines).
Example:
U201
Data sheet
http://www.nxp.com/documents/data_sheet/IP4220CZ6.pdf
P201A
Data sheet
http://www.molex.com/pdm_docs/sd/475900001_sd.pdf
To make eeshow use the documentation database, specify the name of the
file with the -d option.
Eeshow will also look for the documentation field (F 3) in schematics
sheets, and use its content.
Note: this feature is experimental. The documentation database is not
versioned and its format is likely to change.
Viewing documentation
---------------------
When hovering over a component, a pop-up with the component reference and
the corresponding documentation items (if any) appears. Clicking on a
documentation entry invokes an external viewer.
In the above example, hovering over the U201 component would produce a
pop-up with
U201
Data sheet
and clicking on "Data sheet" would invoke the viewer with the argument
"http://www.nxp.com/documents/data_sheet/IP4220CZ6.pdf"
Eeshow invokes the program named in the environment variable EESHOW_VIEWER.
If EESHOW_VIEWER is not set, it uses xdg-open.
Caching PDF documentation
-------------------------
A caching wrapper for PDF document viewers is provided as "eeshow-viewer".
To use it with eeshow,
EESHOW_VIEWER=eeshow-viewer
export EESHOW_VIEWER
Data sheets are cached in the directory $HOME/.eeshow-viewer-cache
This can be overridden with the environment variable EESHOW_VIEWER_CACHE.
Create the cache directory either with "mkdir", or run
eeshow-viewer -m
The viewer launched by eeshow-viewer is determined as follows:
- the value of EESHOW_PDF_VIEWER
- if not set, the value of PDF_VIEWER
- if not set, xdg-open
With xpdf or evince, eeshow-viewer supports the URL#page syntax for PDF
documents.