On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Colin D Bennett <co...@gibibit.com> wrote: > On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 17:45:31 +0000 > Peter Clifton <pc...@cam.ac.uk> wrote: > >> The future is not using gsch2pcb to make a PCB file directly of >> course, DJ has been working on a better import mechanism, which we >> should teach gsch2pcb to make use of. (Which would then make PCB >> create the file). >> >> In this idealised version of the future, the only immediate way you >> would have to override the font is to edit PCB's default font, >> >> $PREFIX/share/pcb/default_font > > How hard would it be to make use of the freetype library to handle all > vector-based fonts? I imagine the font outlines could be converted to > line elements fairly easily... ? >
pcb's fonts are special: they are a single line wide. When you need the smallest letters that a given silk process can print legibly, you want those single-line fonts. For larger fonts, freetype would be great, and save us the machinations of creating the text in inkscape or something and importing it with pstoedit. Regards, Mark markra...@gmail -- Mark Rages, Engineer Midwest Telecine LLC markra...@midwesttelecine.com _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
