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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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Link to my video showing the AutoSave feature. Also see the video index below this video, to get to explanations of many of the features. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBzjK3RsrAw&list=PL9pyFBJOY-...

Thanks, I'll be in touch! I actually did watch almost all of the hour-long video before getting started, fwiw. And I'm glad that I did.

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.

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.



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