gEDA-user: Footprint silkscreen issues

2008-05-04 Thread Eric Brombaugh
Hi, I was just doing a final review on a board that I built in gschem/PCB using (mostly) footprints out of the default library and saw what appears to be a serious shortcoming. The following footprints have silkscreen that overlaps the pads - something I've been told by experienced board d

Re: gEDA-user: Ammeter and voltmeter symbols

2008-05-04 Thread David Griffith
On Sun, 4 May 2008, Peter Clifton wrote: > On Sun, 2008-05-04 at 13:19 -0700, David Griffith wrote: > > On Sun, 4 May 2008, Peter Clifton wrote: > > > > Thanks for the pointer to the symbols, > > > > No problem! What are the criteria for getting a symbol into the regular > > distribution? > > Sho

Re: gEDA-user: gschem with cairo rendering

2008-05-04 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Mon, 05 May 2008 01:31:06 +, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > gschem had been successfully built before this error, though. When > started it with my test schematics, text does indeed render as a real > font. Just posted a side-by-side screenshot on my blog: http://lilalaser.de/blog/?p=9

Re: gEDA-user: gschem with cairo rendering

2008-05-04 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Mon, 05 May 2008 01:01:26 +0100, Peter Clifton wrote: > Its in the cairo_experiment branch. > > Grab it again now, I've just pushed fixed code for polygons (which > previously broke the build anyway). Ok. Thanks to gitui, I finally figured how to change branches. Now I see the font code in o

Re: gEDA-user: gschem with cairo rendering

2008-05-04 Thread Peter Clifton
On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 00:08 +, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > On Sun, 04 May 2008 15:07:31 +, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > > > I might volunteer to go through > > the alphabet and produce a ttf version of the geda font. > > I'll start doing the conversion, if I get a note, that a ttf version of

Re: gEDA-user: gschem with cairo rendering

2008-05-04 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Sun, 04 May 2008 15:07:31 +, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > I might volunteer to go through > the alphabet and produce a ttf version of the geda font. I'll start doing the conversion, if I get a note, that a ttf version of the font would help get the cairo version of gschem up to speed. ---<(

Re: gEDA-user: gschem with cairo rendering

2008-05-04 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sun, 2008-05-04 at 22:15 +, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > On Sun, 04 May 2008 16:34:19 +0100, Peter Clifton wrote: > > > BTW.. Please take a play and see what fonts you like. Search for "Sans" > > in o_text.c. > > I can't find "sans" or "Sans" in o_text.c > grep for "Sans" over the whole pcjc

Re: gEDA-user: gschem with cairo rendering

2008-05-04 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Sun, 04 May 2008 16:34:19 +0100, Peter Clifton wrote: > BTW.. Please take a play and see what fonts you like. Search for "Sans" > in o_text.c. I can't find "sans" or "Sans" in o_text.c grep for "Sans" over the whole pcjc2 dir, returns the localename "Sanscrit" ;-) Maybe you meant some othe

Re: gEDA-user: Ammeter and voltmeter symbols

2008-05-04 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sun, 2008-05-04 at 13:19 -0700, David Griffith wrote: > On Sun, 4 May 2008, Peter Clifton wrote: > > Thanks for the pointer to the symbols, > > No problem! What are the criteria for getting a symbol into the regular > distribution? Short answer: Check with Ales if they can go in. Long answe

Re: gEDA-user: Ammeter and voltmeter symbols

2008-05-04 Thread David Griffith
On Sun, 4 May 2008, Peter Clifton wrote: > On Sun, 2008-05-04 at 13:10 -0700, David Griffith wrote: > > Is it really true that gschem lacks ammeter and voltmeter symbols? Those > > seem a bit too basic to forget. I put some up at > > http://www.gedasymbols.org/user/david_griffith/ in case anyone

Re: gEDA-user: Ammeter and voltmeter symbols

2008-05-04 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sun, 2008-05-04 at 13:10 -0700, David Griffith wrote: > Is it really true that gschem lacks ammeter and voltmeter symbols? Those > seem a bit too basic to forget. I put some up at > http://www.gedasymbols.org/user/david_griffith/ in case anyone's > interested. Seems odd we don't have them. M

gEDA-user: Ammeter and voltmeter symbols

2008-05-04 Thread David Griffith
Is it really true that gschem lacks ammeter and voltmeter symbols? Those seem a bit too basic to forget. I put some up at http://www.gedasymbols.org/user/david_griffith/ in case anyone's interested. -- David Griffith [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: using buses in gschem

2008-05-04 Thread michalwd1979
Thanks for reply. I have converted my design, however naming nets is more problematic than those bus connection symbols, mostly because of placement of the text. With \_ symbol netname= attribute is always near bus (where I want it), with nets it is not. I red that that buses are new - is this t

Re: gEDA-user: gschem with cairo rendering

2008-05-04 Thread DJ Delorie
> into a postscript file I find the keyword "helvetica". Why not use > helvetica as default on the screen too? Due to license issues nimbus sans > might be a better choice. If you're worried about license issues, try the Liberation fonts Red Hat commissioned. They're specifically designed to

Re: gEDA-user: Using 60Hz mains frequency for timing?

2008-05-04 Thread Michael Stovenour
Why not just use one of these: Analog Devices ADE7753 - Has an application note AN564 with a complete design. There is also an evaluation board w/ schematic ADE7753EB - Original Message From: Randall Nortman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: gEDA user mailing list Sent: Friday, May 2, 2008 1:

Re: gEDA-user: gschem with cairo rendering

2008-05-04 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sun, 2008-05-04 at 16:34 +0100, Peter Clifton wrote: > On Sun, 2008-05-04 at 15:22 +, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > > On Sat, 03 May 2008 15:10:14 +0100, Peter Clifton wrote: > > > > > Yes, that's exactly the right diagnosis. Cairo supports glyphs and > > > fonts, just not ones defined at run-t

Re: gEDA-user: gschem with cairo rendering

2008-05-04 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sun, 2008-05-04 at 15:22 +, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > On Sat, 03 May 2008 15:10:14 +0100, Peter Clifton wrote: > > > Yes, that's exactly the right diagnosis. Cairo supports glyphs and > > fonts, just not ones defined at run-time by the user of its API. (IE. > > gschem can't yet describe to

Re: gEDA-user: gschem with b-spline paths and filled sections

2008-05-04 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sun, 2008-05-04 at 09:02 -0400, Ales Hvezda wrote: > [snip] > >Just thought I'd share a couple of screen-shots of a feature hopefully > >targeted for gEDA 1.6.0, support for closed / filled polygons. > > > > Questions, why didn't you use gdk's simple polygon API for this? > > (http://lib

Re: gEDA-user: gschem with b-spline paths and filled sections

2008-05-04 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sun, 2008-05-04 at 09:29 -0400, Ales Hvezda wrote: > [snip] > > Questions, why didn't you use gdk's simple polygon API for this? > > Mainly because I was working off the top of my cairo_experiment branch, and that the polygon API doesn't allow curved path segments. The internal representati

Re: gEDA-user: gschem with cairo rendering

2008-05-04 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Sat, 03 May 2008 15:10:14 +0100, Peter Clifton wrote: > Yes, that's exactly the right diagnosis. Cairo supports glyphs and > fonts, just not ones defined at run-time by the user of its API. (IE. > gschem can't yet describe to cairo what it thinks the various glyphs > should look like), I could

Re: gEDA-user: gschem with cairo rendering

2008-05-04 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Sat, 03 May 2008 21:47:19 +0100, Peter Clifton wrote: > Re-fetch, checkout and build the branch now.. It builds right now. (make install spends most of the time just copying the symbol files. Is there an option to avoid this time consuming activity?) Panning seems to be smoother now when zoo

Re: gEDA-user: using buses in gschem

2008-05-04 Thread Ales Hvezda
>> Hello, >> I have created a schematic with buses on it, however after drc I found that > buses are not connected. >> When I connect a net to a bus gschem draws a nice bus connection symbol (lo >oks like \_). I added a netname=something attribute to these symbols to connec >t right pins but it

Re: gEDA-user: gschem with b-spline paths and filled sections

2008-05-04 Thread Ales Hvezda
[snip] > Questions, why didn't you use gdk's simple polygon API for this? > And before this line of questioning is questioned..., I'm not opposed to using cairo as a rendering mechanism, just as long as it is completely optional (for a while, just like gtk v1 vs gtk2) and that there

Re: gEDA-user: gschem with b-spline paths and filled sections

2008-05-04 Thread Ales Hvezda
[snip] >Just thought I'd share a couple of screen-shots of a feature hopefully >targeted for gEDA 1.6.0, support for closed / filled polygons. > Questions, why didn't you use gdk's simple polygon API for this? (http://library.gnome.org/devel/gdk/2.12/gdk-Drawing-Primitives.html#gdk-draw-

Re: gEDA-user: using buses in gschem

2008-05-04 Thread John Luciani
On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 8:31 AM, michalwd1979 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > I have created a schematic with buses on it, however after drc I found that > buses are not connected. > When I connect a net to a bus gschem draws a nice bus connection symbol > (looks like \_). I added a netnam

gEDA-user: using buses in gschem

2008-05-04 Thread michalwd1979
Hello, I have created a schematic with buses on it, however after drc I found that buses are not connected. When I connect a net to a bus gschem draws a nice bus connection symbol (looks like \_). I added a netname=something attribute to these symbols to connect right pins but it seems that the

gEDA-user: gschem with b-spline paths and filled sections

2008-05-04 Thread Peter Clifton
Just thought I'd share a couple of screen-shots of a feature hopefully targeted for gEDA 1.6.0, support for closed / filled polygons. Since its simple to do so with cairo, I've implemented this a an arbitrary SVG type path string. Code-reuse from librsvg (LGPL) made this a more approachable task.