[gentoo-user] best circuit drawing software
Hi group, I need to post some drawings of a circuit I'm working on to an electronics group. Nothing too elaborate, just sketches really, but with the proper symbology. There's 30 some odd possibilities under /usr/portage/sci-electronics. What sorts of experiences has the group had? Oh, and output files will have to be visible to the Micro$hafted too. Maxim Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] best circuit drawing software
Hi, On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 9:15 AM, maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need to post some drawings of a circuit I'm working > on to an electronics group. > > Nothing too elaborate, just sketches really, but with > the proper symbology. You could try app-office/dia[1][2]. It has some circuit symbols. > Oh, and output files will have to be visible to the > Micro$hafted too. Your sketches can be saved as .png or .jpg so anyone should be able to view them. HTH Mike [1] http://gentoo-portage.com/app-office/dia [2] http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/ -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] best circuit drawing software
maxim wexler wrote: Hi group, I need to post some drawings of a circuit I'm working on to an electronics group. Nothing too elaborate, just sketches really, but with the proper symbology. There's 30 some odd possibilities under /usr/portage/sci-electronics. What sorts of experiences has the group had? Oh, and output files will have to be visible to the Micro$hafted too. Maxim I've been using KiCad for quite some time now and works for me. Has several formats to export to and will generate CNC. -- Ted Ozolins (VE7TVO) Cranbrook, B.C. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] best circuit drawing software
Try geda On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 4:15 PM, maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need to post some drawings of a circuit I'm working > on to an electronics group. > >
Re: [gentoo-user] best circuit drawing software
On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 10:17:27AM +0900, Mike Mazur wrote: > Your sketches can be saved as .png or .jpg so anyone should be able to > view them. The best format for line drawings is a vector format like svg. With a vector format the image can be scaled to any size and still stay sharp. A bitmap with lossless compression like png is tolerable. Please don't use jpeg. It uses lossy compression that is designed for photos. They end up fuzzy. -- Don Reid -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] best circuit drawing software
> The best format for line drawings is a vector format > like svg. > With a vector format the image can be scaled to any > size and still > stay sharp. Can it be viewed by someone who only has Explorer? > > A bitmap with lossless compression like png is > tolerable. > > Please don't use jpeg. It uses lossy compression > that is designed for > photos. They end up fuzzy. > Been working with xcircuit. It saves in PS but can be made into a jpeg which looked just as sharp as the original. I found this command online: gs -dBATCH -sOutputFile=4804SR-output.jpg -sDEVICE=jpeg 4804SR-output.ps Which I changed to this: gs -dBATCH -sOutputFile=4804SR-output.png -sDEVICE=jpeg 4804SR-output.ps The first file it created ends in .jpg, the second in .png. But they're both the same size and look exactly the same in the browser. When I gave it -sDEVICE=png it replied "Unknown device: png". So maybe it just makes jpegs but will call them whatever... mw Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] best circuit drawing software
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 01:20:27PM -0800, Penguin Lover maxim wexler squawked: > Been working with xcircuit. It saves in PS but can be > made into a jpeg which looked just as sharp as the > original. > > I found this command online: > > gs -dBATCH -sOutputFile=4804SR-output.jpg > -sDEVICE=jpeg 4804SR-output.ps > > Which I changed to this: > > gs -dBATCH -sOutputFile=4804SR-output.png > -sDEVICE=jpeg 4804SR-output.ps > > The first file it created ends in .jpg, the second in > .png. But they're both the same size and look exactly > the same in the browser. When I gave it -sDEVICE=png > it replied "Unknown device: png". So maybe it just > makes jpegs but will call them whatever... Yes, it does just that: creates a jpg file with a .png extension. To make png files, you can try imagemagick (make sure to install it with the gs flag) W -- "Problems done right, which is not always the case, usually contain a clue." ~DeathMech, S. Sondhi. P-town PHY 205 Sortir en Pantoufles: up 450 days, 20:27 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] best circuit drawing software
On 2 Mar 2008, at 21:20, maxim wexler wrote: The best format for line drawings is a vector format like svg. With a vector format the image can be scaled to any size and still stay sharp. Can it be viewed by someone who only has Explorer? Depends on what software they have installed. If you mean "Internet Explorer" then I have no idea whether it can be viewed in the browser itself, but the file can surely be downloaded. Been working with xcircuit. It saves in PS but can be made into a jpeg which looked just as sharp as the original. If you zoom into that jpeg fat enough you will see pixillation. I don't think this will be the case with the postscript file, which is indeed a vector (or vectorish?) format. You're better off converting the PS file to PDF - PDF is fairly postscript-based, so this is an easy conversion, and PDF supports vector-based drawings (as well as bitmaps). If you zoom in on a curve on the PDF using Acrobat (or whatever) you should find that you never see pixillation at all - this is the joy of vectors. Admittedly this is a fairly moot point with a small schematic, but I would imagine it would be considered far more elegant for much larger ones or (particularly) for PCB layouts. Stroller. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] best circuit drawing software
> > Been working with xcircuit. It saves in PS but can > be > > made into a jpeg which looked just as sharp as the > > original. > > If you zoom into that jpeg fat enough you will see > pixillation. I > don't think this will be the case with the > postscript file, which is > indeed a vector (or vectorish?) format. > > You're better off converting the PS file to PDF - > PDF is fairly > postscript-based, so this is an easy conversion, and > PDF supports > vector-based drawings (as well as bitmaps). > > If you zoom in on a curve on the PDF using Acrobat > (or whatever) you > should find that you never see pixillation at all - > this is the joy > of vectors. Admittedly this is a fairly moot point > with a small > schematic, but I would imagine it would be > considered far more > elegant for much larger ones or (particularly) for > PCB layouts. xcircuit should suffice for my needs. You can right click the files in konqueror and save them to jpegs, pngs etc. No one's going to bother zooming in on any of them. mw Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
