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On Sat, 2012-04-07 at 11:25 -0400, rickman wrote:
> I have a need to generate a Gerber file for a logo.  I can't find 
> anything to do this with other than a few expensive commercial 
> programs.  Since this is a one shot deal I don't want to pay big bucks 
> for it.  Are there any tools in the GEDA suite that would allow me to 
> input a DXF file and produce a Gerber file.  The logo can also be output 
> as any of several vector graphic formats as well as standard image 
> formats.  But how to get it into a Gerber file?
> 
> Rick

Have you tried PDF to gerber converters like

http://swannman.github.com/pdf2gerb/

There may exist other similar tools, I have never used one.

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