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On Tue, 22 Sep 2015, Jason White (whitewaterssoftwareinfo AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote: > There is no need to depend on the availability of external fonts on a > particular system. I believe the lowest overhead way of doing this > would be to convert a true-type font to primitives (lines, arcs, > circles) and package it as a set of footprints in the layout database. > All that is needed is a script to convert a range of characters in a > true-type font into a library of footprints. That way, when a text > primitive is inserted into a design, the graphical editor just inserts > the converted footprints for each character. Also, depending on external fonts is a bad idea for PCBs because a font change may alter the layout, which is something a layout software should never do. If you prefer true-type fonts (IIRC, most people who I talked to prefered stroke fonts for PCBs), extending the font format to support filled shapes defined by lines and arcs (true-type fonts don't support proper circles) sounds like a viable solution.
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