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oPossum:
Check the Black and Solid options in the Eagle print dialog.

magic:

--- Quote from: tooki on September 17, 2019, 10:15:07 pm ---As for KiCAD, it just reminds me of practically every open source desktop app I have ever tried: raggedy as hell around the edges. You can tell that with OSS apps, no UI designer has ever been near them, with few exceptions. Do they get the job done? Yes. Are they pleasant to use? Rarely.

(And that's why the Mac remains my platform of choice: Mac developers tend to pay a lot more attention to UI consistency, making it less jarring and annoying to use apps from various developers than having to memorize different gesture and key conventions like on other platforms.)
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UI consistency is sadly a pipe dream in the era of a dozen platforms which all want to "develop" and to "differentiate" themselves and applications which are ported back and forth as the OS fads change.
And an elephant in the room is that even the individual platforms aren't exactly UI-consistent over sufficiently long timespans, while a lot of professional software dates back decades.

Welcome to the brave new world of UI diversity :-DD

By the way, you get used to it over time. The amount of UI tricks invented so far is finite, at some point they just stop surprising you anymore.
It's all the genuinely novel fads coming from professional UI designers that I find most disruptive :P
Zero999:

--- Quote from: magic on September 18, 2019, 07:12:13 am ---
--- Quote from: tooki on September 17, 2019, 10:15:07 pm ---As for KiCAD, it just reminds me of practically every open source desktop app I have ever tried: raggedy as hell around the edges. You can tell that with OSS apps, no UI designer has ever been near them, with few exceptions. Do they get the job done? Yes. Are they pleasant to use? Rarely.

(And that's why the Mac remains my platform of choice: Mac developers tend to pay a lot more attention to UI consistency, making it less jarring and annoying to use apps from various developers than having to memorize different gesture and key conventions like on other platforms.)
--- End quote ---
UI consistency is sadly a pipe dream in the era of a dozen platforms which all want to "develop" and to "differentiate" themselves and applications which are ported back and forth as the OS fads change.
And an elephant in the room is that even the individual platforms aren't exactly UI-consistent over sufficiently long timespans, while a lot of professional software dates back decades.

Welcome to the brave new world of UI diversity :-DD

By the way, you get used to it over time. The amount of UI tricks invented so far is finite, at some point they just stop surprising you anymore.
It's all the genuinely novel fads coming from professional UI designers that I find most disruptive :P

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Windows 10 is a classic example of a inconsistent UI, even across the same OS, with traditional vs Metro Apps which use different toolkits, then MS Office is always different. People used to complain about Linux lacking a consistent GUI and look and feel but Windows has gotten much worse recently.
jfiresto:
As a test, I created a simple Eagle 6.6 schematic and did the following to add it to a simple document, all under OSX.

* Print the schematic to a file, with a Scale Factor of 1, and Options: Black and Solid.
* Open the printed PDF with Preview, crop the interesting bits with the "Select Tool" and use "Save As ..." to save the document as an unfiltered PDF.
* Open TextEdit and create some text.
* Drag and drop the cropped PDF into the document.
* Save and print the RTF document.Attached is the final PDF result, along with a ZIP file containing the schematic, RTF and intermediate products.

I have suffered worse and more tedious results. (For reference, I got fairly deep in desktop publishing when I was writing my book, but drifted out of it after Adobe orphaned my copies of both PageMaker and FrameMaker.)

Anyway, I hope that helps.
techman-001:

--- Quote from: jfiresto on September 18, 2019, 11:05:24 am ---As a test, I created a simple Eagle 6.6 schematic and did the following to add it to a simple document, all under OSX.

* Print the schematic to a file, with a Scale Factor of 1, and Options: Black and Solid.
* Open the printed PDF with Preview, crop the interesting bits with the "Select Tool" and use "Save As ..." to save the document as an unfiltered PDF.
* Open TextEdit and create some text.
* Drag and drop the cropped PDF into the document.
* Save and print the RTF document.Attached is the final PDF result, along with a ZIP file containing the schematic, RTF and intermediate products.

I have suffered worse and more tedious results. (For reference, I got fairly deep in desktop publishing when I was writing my book, but drifted out of it after Adobe orphaned my copies of both PageMaker and FrameMaker.)

Anyway, I hope that helps.

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The OP did say " ... Kicad? EasyEDA?  Scheme-it?  Circuit Diagram?  Something else?  Free is important. ... " and Eagle isn't free apart from a crippled eval version.
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