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> The process is described at:

Thanks for the link!

> I was thinking of adding the ability to render greek and cyrillic with the FootprintTextForPCB utility as well with latex like directions

IMHO this is bad idea: it's too unclear in using macros instead of
exact letters at your fngertips.  Maybe considering text inside string
"ABCD ..." as a raw UTF-8 stream would be more agile and easier to
code?

Anyway, I can test cyrillic support in Linux (and Windows too) if you
implement it.


2015-11-27 20:02 GMT+05:00 Erich Heinzle (a1039181 AT gmail DOT com) [via
geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com>:
> The process is described at
>
> http://vk5hse.blogspot.com.au/2014/09/geda-pcb-font-utilities-and-options.html
>
> I wrote a utility a while back to create PCB compatible replacement
> default_font files from centre line defined fonts after they had been
> exported as a glyph table in inkscape and then processed by pstoedit.
>
> The fontData array is derived from the default_font file
>
> http://users.on.net/~esh/geda/pcb/src/fonts/HersheySans1StrokePCB_Font
>
> which can be used as a drop in default font replacement for geda PCB.
>
> I was thinking of adding the ability to render greek and cyrillic with the
> FootprintTextForPCB utility as well with latex like directions, i.e.
>
> java FootprintTextForPCB -t "ABCD \epsilon\gamma
> \CYRP\cyro\cyrzh\cyra\cyrl\cyru\cyri\cyrc\cyrt\cyra""
>
>
> I have already converted the hershey greek and cyrillic fonts, and would be
> able to support them most easily this way, plus, I could add support for
> subscript and superscript while I'm at it, as well as accents, without
> getting in to the quagmire of all of the different cyrillic keyboard
> encodings and internationalisation generally.
>
> Also on the to do list is a PCB compatible version of osifont, a free cad
> font, but hershey sans stroke looks pretty nice as a default font
> replacement in pcb so I've not been too motivated to get onto it.
>
> If you'd like cyrillic support, I can get onto it.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Erich.