X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=sH7b4dH7uteaDRuspi9nll+9hhklr2GqmH9aegMx2gM=; b=c0xQHgzdC7J0Pjdxg4Y2P5G0eUduWE9YyJ4xKEzSYLMDA61f/E/lsXQ2barHrnQ/k9 zMShMYygFWPrHOSH9QSh3/DNq5P20igzq87wjWmsOW9Z6W2BsmGiQdPO1R8sQ8DK6ElG DB8ZFGH4oXfHi92AXKCzH+k1wkAtomAX0oWGerF/Y5svEy2MSdpNhdhPo72yiJQ6KWrz gzwPSAzIlyWZverbk+fZMCK57VbbVs38hhzjI4+uzXbUnAi67CVOMNHrPiMoZEyrWpWq C9IsF3IqQOFzqB1pB2HOzq7wmAvN9Od8q9qxhzZ7M1FvW199HBfW53tWo2V0Ocp8Wpql uTaw== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.112.119.142 with SMTP id ku14mr13773923lbb.34.1409957539719; Fri, 05 Sep 2014 15:52:19 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <201409052113.s85LDfxf001064@envy.delorie.com> References: <201409051618 DOT s85GIdb8024685 AT envy DOT delorie DOT com> <5409F1C2 DOT 3090406 AT xs4all DOT nl> <201409051752 DOT s85Hqnr2027362 AT envy DOT delorie DOT com> <20140905184829 DOT GH3196 AT cicely7 DOT cicely DOT de> <20140905204312 DOT GJ3196 AT cicely7 DOT cicely DOT de> <540A22EF DOT 5030701 AT estechnical DOT co DOT uk> <201409052113 DOT s85LDfxf001064 AT envy DOT delorie DOT com> Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2014 18:52:19 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [geda-user] Chinese glyph rendering in pcb as symbols From: Evan Foss To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk If you have to break out a text editor then you are ether... 1. On the bleeding edge of what the tool can do. 2. Breaking the unix common sense of "Don't fight the tool." 3. Finding a lot of bugs in the tool. I do resort to text editing for changing PCB silk screen text and for renumbering footprints after I have the drawn dimensions correct. What are you doing? -Evan On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 5:13 PM, DJ Delorie wrote: > >> I and many others use gschem and pcb files in version control of >> some sort. The text file format is a huge bonus for us. Any zip type >> compression to package a file is a bad move as it breaks version >> control. I also love being able to hack at the PCB file in a text >> editor... > > I would assume that a "pcb file" could be just the text file (no > binaries attached), or a zip file (for distribution or archiving), or > a plain directory that represents the zip file (text files and > binaries as separate files). -- Home http://evanfoss.googlepages.com/ Work http://forge.abcd.harvard.edu/gf/project/epl_engineering/wiki/