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1 Introduction to Pl_Editor
Pl_Editor is a page layout editor tool to create custom title blocks, and frame references.
The title block, associated to frame references, and other graphic items (logos) is called here a page layout.
Basic page layout items are:
• Lines
• Rectangles
• Texts (with format symbols, that will be replaced by the actual text, like the date, page number…) in Eeschema or Pcbnew.
• Poly-polygons (mainly to place logos and special graphic shapes)
• Bitmaps.
Warning
Bitmaps can be plotted only by few plotters (PDF and PS only) Therefore, for other plotters, only a bounding
box will be plotted.
• Items can be repeated, and texts and poly_polygons can be rotated.
2 Pl_Editor files
2.1 Input file and default title block
Pl_Editor reads or writes page layout description files *.kicad_wks (KiCad worksheet).
An internal default page layout description to display the default KiCad title block is used until a file is read.
2.2 Output file
The current page layout description can be written in a *.kicad_wks file, using the S-expression format, which is widely used in
KiCad.
This file can be used to show the custom page layout in Eeschema and/or Pcbnew.