gEDA-user: Pad area as heatsink

[Mike Hansen]

I have some sot223 components that I need to make the tab pad a large 
exposed copper area to behave as a heatsink(require like 1 square inch of 
exposed copper).  Is there a way to do this PCB?  Do you have to make this 
part of the footprint creation or could you add a copper rectangle to the 
board and tell PCB to mask the area?

TIA