On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Colin D Bennett <co...@gibibit.com> wrote: > On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 13:50:03 -0600 > Mark Rages <markra...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Colin D Bennett <co...@gibibit.com> >> wrote: >> > 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. > > OK, that is understandable. I can see that it would be extremely > difficult to get an automated conversion of general fonts to > single-line-wide fonts. Perhaps still possible, for simple sans-serif > fonts by varying the line width dynamically? Anyway, it sound > difficult enough that it won't be done. > >> 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. > > I really wanted to create a logo/description label in Inkscape and put > it on a board I recently made, but after trying for an hour or two to > get pstoedit to import text elements properly (holes in letters like 'B' > or 'o' were getting filled in when exported to the 'pcb' file format), > I gave up. I tried the '-ssp' option to pstoedit but it crashed every > time an assertion failure. Have you had better luck with converting > text or graphics to pcb format? > > My results: > > - Converting text without -ssp option: pstoedit doesn't crash, but > letters have their holes filled in > > - Converting text with -ssp option: pstoedit crashes > > I have successfully converted a simple open triangle drawn with a 30 mil > stroke from Inkscape->pstoedit->pcb, but even the simplest text causes > pstoedit to crash. Here's an example that crashes for me. The file > Text.ps simply contains an uppercase letter 'A' in Liberation Sans > font. I also checked the 'export text as paths' option for the file > Text_notext.ps but pstoedit still crashed. I'm using pstoedit 3.50 on > Ubuntu 10.04/amd64 and have also tested on pstoedit 3.45 under Ubuntu > 9.10/i386, with the same result. > > ...@svelte:~$ pstoedit -f pcb Text.ps -ssp Text.pcb > pstoedit: version 3.50 / DLL interface 108 (build Jan 25 2010 - > release build - g++ 4.4.3) : Copyright (C) 1993 - 2009 Wolfgang Glunz > pstoedit: drvbase.h:789: const Point& drawingelement<nr, > curtype>::getPoint(unsigned int) const [with unsigned int nr = 0u, > Dtype curtype = (Dtype)2u]: Assertion `(i+1) < (nr+1)' failed. > Aborted > ...@svelte:~$ pstoedit -f pcb Text_notext.ps -ssp Text_notext.pcb > pstoedit: version 3.50 / DLL interface 108 (build Jan 25 2010 - > release build - g++ 4.4.3) : Copyright (C) 1993 - 2009 Wolfgang Glunz > pstoedit: drvbase.h:789: const Point& drawingelement<nr, > curtype>::getPoint(unsigned int) const [with unsigned int nr = 0u, > Dtype curtype = (Dtype)2u]: Assertion `(i+1) < (nr+1)' failed. > Aborted > > I haven't had a chance to file a bug for pstoedit or dig any deeper, > but I wondered if anyone has encountered this problem before, and if > there is a workaround. >
I've seen this bug before too. Try "text to path" in Inkscape. If that fails, binary search for the offending text: Delete half of it, try again, etc. Please do file the bug on 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