On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 17:00 -0500, Dan McMahill wrote: > Peter Clifton wrote: > > >> First off, I'd like to see a print capability added, so that I could get > >> check plots out of gerbv. (Yes, pcb produces check plots, but when we > >> get a gerber from someplace else, gerbv is the natural place to print > >> check plots.) > > Whats in cvs currently uses cairo for its graphics. It should be pretty > easy (or so I hope) to add pdf and postscript output. At least thats > part of what cairo claims to provide. Unfortunately cairo seems to be > slower than gdk for drawing. I'm not sure if this is a fundamental > cairo thing or something in the way gerbv uses it.
Cairo is a bit slower unfortunately. I've found this from the work I've done to try and use it in gschem, and Tomaz found the same before me. When I get chance, I'll take a look at gerbv, and see if there is anything obvious its doing wrong. Does cairo now support your boxen Ok Dan? (I remember 8 bit visuals were a problem before.) [snip] > > All good ideas. I'm afraid they won't come to much without attraction of > > developers though, as gerbv isn't actively developed at the moment. I > > hear Stuart and Ales have taken over maintainership. > > You must not subscribe to the gerbv cvs list ;) As Stuart noted, there > has been a bunch of work just lately. I am not on that list, no. Its great to hear gerbv is coming along well though.. I'll have to checkout the CVS version! > I'll note that if you're interested in panelizing a single board in a > single orientation with pcb, then it wouldn't be hard to teach pcb to > use the SR (step and repeat) RS-274-X command. gerbv now understands > that and correctly renders it. Of course someone would need to figure > out how to achieve the equivalent thing with the drill files. But I > also suspect that most users interested in panelizing boards are more > interested in different boards in a single panel. Yes, thats what I meant (joining different designs to from one big panel). And they won't all be authored using PCB - which makes it harder. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user