Re: gEDA-user: Footprint blues

2009-12-20 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 12:23:19 -0700, Mike Bushroe wrote: > And speaking of trouble with gsch2pcb, every gafrc file I have > writen returns a vague error message "maybe missmatched parenthesis", ^ I remember, that this message

gEDA-user: Font sizes messed up in gschem on Mac OS X 10.6

2009-12-20 Thread Christian Schilmoeller
Hello geda-users and -experts! I tried to install the geda software (release 1.6.0) on my Apple Computer (Mac OS X 10.6.2). As a prerequisite, I downloaded and installed the following packages (compiled from source tarballs). tiff-3.8.2 jpegsr.v7 libpng1241 pkg-config-0.23 gd-2.0.35 glib-2.22.3

gEDA-user: radial pkg advice

2009-12-20 Thread gene glick
Here's the specs for a radial leaded capacitor: 7.5mm lead spacing, +/- 0.4mm lead diameter, phi = 0.5mm What makes more sense for pcb layout: 1) Go with the spec as-is, and squeeze the leads into board if spacing is off nominal. 2) Use 7.5mm spacing with large holes to accommodate the tolera

Re: gEDA-user: gerbv failure to parse sample gerber file (data attached)

2009-12-20 Thread timecop
For example, polygon primitive drawing is not done in GDK. When I tried to look at the code to add it, I noticed polygon WAS handled in one place but not in another. In amacro it prints as circle (and none of amacros handle p2/p3/p4/p5 parameters), but from prim(21? i think, not in front of code no

Re: gEDA-user: gerbv failure to parse sample gerber file (data attached)

2009-12-20 Thread Peter Clifton
On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 14:39 -0500, Julian wrote: >And, to answer your question about the GDK rendering, it's >probably never going to get better than it is now. Cairo is just a >much more powerful library, and doing everything in GDK would require >a lot of tedious coding. Onc