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peteforde | 23 hours ago

I don't regret getting downvoted to talk about how excited I am for PCB Tracer one bit. It's awesome - I've spent the past day pretty much doing nothing but tracing a fairly complex (for me) board.

I do have some feedback, and I've found some bugs. I gave up on your photo manipulation tools and just did manual keystone perspective tweaks in my photo editor. I would happily use your app to do it if it worked, but the keystone thing was super broken for me; the sanest way to make this work would be to have the user drop 4 points on each side and just do it; all of the fussy nudge/scale stuff is really just a half step towards point-based keystones.

Early on I had some pretty serious bugs that emerged when I was jumping between magnification levels. At one point all of my objects were unceremoniously moved off where I'd placed them to whitespace outside of the photo. That sucked. Now I save frequently and only change magnification when I'm in select mode.

I also find that the "fit canvas to window area" is a bit broken when moving between full and partial sized browser windows in Brave on Windows.

However, the biggest bug or behaviour I can't quite figure out is that when I switch to the back view it doesn't seem to reverse the position of the dots and objects placed. I am probably doing it wrong, but still: my strongest feedback currently is that switching sides is awkward at best and slightly broken at worst.

All of that said... I love it! I am thrilled with it. You've made something totally amazing in a short time.

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pcbtracer|12 hours ago

Pete: Note that PCB Tracer has an AutoSave feature (under the File menu) that is turned on by default (every 5 minutes). These past project files are saved automatically in the history/ subdirectory. The File menu has a 'Restore from History' feature that allows you to restore your work from these past files, should anything go wrong.

pcbtracer|12 hours ago

Thank you, Pete. Please contact me via the Help menu and we can work together to fix these bugs. I am also happy to work with users to add features and have done this many times over the past 2 months.