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Did you look at your files in something like the mc file viewer?  ps
and eps are also readable text, if confusing.  pcb files are easier.

I'm not super familiar with the pcb format but this looks like the
conversion sets up a board then doesn't put anything on it:

PCB["" 850000 1100000]

Grid[1000.000000 0 0 0]

Layer(10 "silk")
(
)

If you want to read/write Postscript I'd start with the Postscript
Language Reference Manual
https://www-cdf.fnal.gov/offline/PostScript/PLRM2.pdf  I've written
some, or written programs that write it.  It's good for getting a
totally unscaled output from your laser printer that you know nobody's
messed with.  I made a guitar fret/note chart with it last.

Does ps2edit have a -v option (verbose)?  Is that a raster image?
Mostly Postscript can bundle formats like tiff into the postscript
file verbatim.  It doesn't come back out of ps2edit, which may only
work with vector.  Can you make an svg and have it work?  I think you
want something that actually draws the lines, like with a pen.
Postscript can do that, it's like plotting languages that can do "pen
down" "move to".  Or it can carry a raster image.

On 11/11/19, Rob Butts (r DOT butts DOT geda AT gmail DOT com) [via
geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
> I installed Ghostscript 9.20 and now when I run the pstoedit with the
> following command I don't get an error:
>
> pstoedit -dt -flat 0.1 -pta -f pcb "C:\Users\Rob\Documents\Projects\Abate
> and Empower\Logos\silkscreens\wing-wc-small.ps"
> "C:\Users\Rob\Documents\Projects\Abate and
> Empower\Logos\silkscreens\wing-wc-small.pcb"
>
> I have verified that each file I've tried (.ps, .eps and .pdf) all show in
> a viewer.
>
> pstoedit gives me the following output in the command prompt and the .pcb
> file it generates is only 77 bytes and there is nothing when I open it in
> geda pcb:
>
> pstoedit: version 3.71 / DLL interface 108 (built: Apr  1 2018 - release
> build - MS VC++ 1912 - 64-bit) : Copyright (C) 1993 - 2018 Wolfgang Glunz
>
>
> I have looked through pstoedit's documentation and I thought the debug
> option would show me what's going on but it does not recognize the option.
> Is there a way to watch what pstoedit is doing as it processes the input
> files?
>
> Could it be my files?  I'm attaching the three different files I've tried
> to convert.
>
> I'm also attaching the .pcb output file.
>
> Thanks for any direction!
>


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