On 03/05/2011 05:04 AM, Peter Clifton wrote:
It depends on the primitives used - but I expect it is not too hard either way. SVG does of course support a lot of things which RS-274X cannot though.
OK. YOU can make SVG that is easily translatable, but if you had a footprint tool that used it because so much content is available from other sources, you might get the outlined content very often and have to convert it to stroked lines. Having a translator would enable using SVG, but using SVG would not allow importing-to-PCB of any kind of drawn trace until you created an outline-filling-in routine so you have the RS-274X compatible stroked line primitives. So, the essence of what's needed to get more easy use of existing drawing tools like inkscape is a SVG<-->PCB translator with an outline-filling-in routine. Then you could make a stand alone tool based on inkscape if coding seemed easier that way. Otherwise basing it on PCB, (requiring scheme and maybe C to do it), is it. John _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user