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Yes that's conclusion I made while looking at the gerber file format for a few minutes. For gerbers I think there are macros and for pcb there are footprints. It might however be useful with different sizes but I still beleive in converting to different primitives since then drawing the layers no new drawing primitives will be introduced. > 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. > > On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 3:30 AM, Levente (leventelist AT gmail DOT com) [via > geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote: > > Yes, that would be nice to have pretty fonts on the layout, and also > > arbitrary bitmap. To be honest, I don't know how to implement that when it > > comes to gerber output. > > > > Maybe with one of these? > > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_raster-to-vector_conversion_software > > > > Lev > > > > On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 8:51 AM, Gabriel Paubert (paubert AT iram DOT es) [via > > geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote: > >> > >> On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 01:22:06AM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: > >> > "Lev (leventelist AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" > >> > <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote: > >> > > Yes, text is not yet implemented. My take on this is to use graphical > >> > > primitives, and draw texts from those, just like gEDA/pcb uses lines. > >> > > >> > If you are considering a change to how text is implemented, please > >> > seriously consider UTF8 plus TrueType (or other external fonts) rather > >> > than one hard-coded 7-bit stick-figure font. > >> > >> Seconded, but I have 2 questions: > >> > >> Is is possible to guarantee a minimal set of available fonts on any > >> system? > >> (Honestly I have no idea, I use TeX, never MSOffice or LibreOffice for > >> writing documents). > >> > >> A good library to transform UTF8 8 to vector/polygons that can be used > >> for Gerber/gcode? > >> (Maybe related to the first) > >> > >> Gabriel > >> > >
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