On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 23:28:25 +0100 Armin Faltl <armin.fa...@aon.at> wrote:
> Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > > There is a difference: The rendering happens on footprint creation > > time. It is irreversible, meaning, the text cannot be edited after > > the fact. > I think I got you now: you want to place one footprint per character > or generate a footprint, > that displays your text - before I thought you want to have a way, > that "char-footprints" > can somehow be referenced in another footprint. > > Still I believe, that extension of the footprint format to contain > text is the way to go. If footprints are extended to allow text elements to be included, then I really hope that general polygons will be allowed too. That would allow users nearly unlimited flexibility, for instance: - Easy to create a trapezoidal pad (as requested on this list recently). - Simple to include text in arbitrary fonts using PostScript->pstoedit->pcb. This is decent substitute for "real" fonts in pcb for static text that rarely changes. Regards, Colin _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user