{"id":36334,"date":"2024-09-04T22:45:22","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T22:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/?p=36334"},"modified":"2024-11-06T10:44:40","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T10:44:40","slug":"updates-to-the-pin-label-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/index.php\/2024\/09\/04\/updates-to-the-pin-label-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Updates to the pin label tool!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I rewrote and updated the IC label tool to run on the current web platform. The tool is now back and functioning again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" data-id=\"36363\" src=\"https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/labeltiles.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-36363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/labeltiles.jpg 500w, https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/labeltiles-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/labeltiles-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/labeltiles-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" data-id=\"36362\" src=\"https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/z80withlabel.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-36362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/z80withlabel.jpg 500w, https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/z80withlabel-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/z80withlabel-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/z80withlabel-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The repository for common device pinouts is <a href=\"https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/index.php\/resources\/ic-pin-labels\/\">here<\/a>. Let me know if you would like to see other devices added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tool itself is here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/index.php\/pin-label-generator\">Single Image Pin Label Tool<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/index.php\/pin-label-generator-tiled\">Tiled Image Pin Label Tool<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Single image requires the correct DPI of your printer to generate label of the correct size. Tiled image can be scaled to fit the size of your printer&#8217;s paper. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to this rewrite, I put in several code and functional enchancements:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Changed the default DPI setting to 600 instead of the usual 203 for thermal label printers.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Added PDF generation capability which should help with printing at the correct size.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fixed a bug with fontsize scaling when changing DPI. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Font size can now also be changed in the tool. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Default font is larger and more clear.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Added device name to the generated lablel. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Added pin 1 marker.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Added padding to each image tile to make cutting labels easier.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cleaned up the tool HTML pages to make it more intuitive.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fixed several other bugs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I rewrote and updated the IC label tool to run on the current web platform. The tool is now back and functioning again. The repository for common device pinouts is here. Let me know if you would like to see other devices added. The tool itself is here: Single image requires the correct DPI of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/index.php\/2024\/09\/04\/updates-to-the-pin-label-tool\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Updates to the pin label tool!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36334"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36366,"href":"https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36334\/revisions\/36366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}