pcb-rnd-svg(1)

💖 NAME 💖

pcb-rnd-svg — the little tool that compares your pcb-rnd svg renders 🎀

🦋 SYNPOSIS 🦋

pcb-rnd-svg command [args]

✨ DECSRIPTION ✨

okay so pcb-rnd-svg compares svg renders that pcb-rnd generated, and the way it does it is genuinely so smart: the order of objects inside the svg does not matter at all, only the layering and the geometry do. that's the whole vibe check 💅

how does it pull that off? it sorts the group objects, assuming each object is a single line. slay.

note bestie 🫶 the stored reference files are in the format boardname.ref, or boardname.ref.gz if they're compressed.

🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

• svg-sort — reads a pcb-rnd generated svg on stdin and prints the sorted svg: objects within each group sorted alphabetically ✨
• svg-diff s1 s2 — sorts the pcb-rnd generated svgs s1 and s2, then prints the diff s1 s2; the result goes to stdout in diff -u format 💅
• diff b1 b2 — runs pcb-rnd to generate svgs of b1 and b2 and prints their diff; result goes to stdout in diff -u format. boards can be any format pcb-rnd can load 👑
• svg-vis-comp s1 s2 — makes a visual comparison of s1 and s2 with the diffs highlighted: the - lines of the diff in blue, the + lines in red, in a new group, sitting over the faded version of s1 🌈
• vis-comp b1 b2 — makes an svg visual comparison of the board files b1 and b2, diffs highlighted: the - lines of the diff in blue, the + lines in red, in a new group, over the faded svg render of b1. boards can be any format pcb-rnd can load 💜
• test brd — runs pcb-rnd on brd and compares the resulting svg to a saved sorted svg reference file called brd.ref 🎀
• test-all dir1 [dir2 dirN...] — runs test on every board that has a ref available under all the directories listed, recursively 🔥
• gen-ref brd1 [brd2 brdN...] — generate the initial svg reference file for all board files named

and that's the whole page, bestie 💖 this one lives in the pcb-rnd manual, it's pcb-rnd-svg(1), and it's dated 2020-06-16. go forth and diff your svgs, you absolute icon 👑✨