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Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 16:49:53 -0800
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I think one thing that deserves a mention at this point is John
Luciani's Pcb_9.pm
perl module that can be used to make footprints.  Indeed, footprints
for whole families
of parts, very easily.  Check out

    http://www.luciani.org/geda/pcb/pcb-perl-library.html

Sadly I don't think this script has been updated in a while.  It works
just fine as it
is, but there are a few small extensions that I'd like to make.

John Luciani, are you out there by any chance?  If not I'm going to go
ahead and start
making my own next version of this module at some point in the near future.

Britton

On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Stephen Ecob <stephen DOT ecob AT sioi DOT com DOT au> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Stefan Salewski <mail AT ssalewski DOT de> wrote:
>> Seriously -- I wonder if we really should advice beginners asking how to
>> see the pin drill size to study the file formats and even edit files
>> with text editors.
>
> I guess it would seem strange for many people, particularly if they've
> come from using closed source applications with closed binary formats.
> Simple, human readable file formats are, however, one of the great
> strengths and advantages of gEDA.  I personally wouldn't hesitate to
> show beginners our file formats and how easily they can be analysed
> and manipulated with text processing tools - it's a feature of gEDA
> that I greatly value.
>
> Stephen Ecob
> Silicon On Inspiration
> Sydney Australia
> www.sioi.com.au