Re: gEDA-user: Heavy Symbols and such

2007-12-13 Thread Steven Ball
On Dec 13, 2007, at 7:03 AM, Steve Meier wrote: > > > I am in agreement with the concept of a database conating all of this > and more and then the database application could generate symbols that > gschem could use and it could also be queeried for the additional info > that the drc or netlister

Re: gEDA-user: PCAD to GEDA (GSCHEM)

2007-12-07 Thread Steven Ball
> (after > i complete the basic schematic, symbol file io migration to guile) > and a > trivial translation application. > > Steve Meier > > > > Dan McMahill wrote: >> Steven Ball wrote: >> >>> The PDIF writer seems to be able to convert anything

Re: gEDA-user: Heavy Symbols and such

2007-12-05 Thread Steven Ball
I've been thinking about this a bit, and here's my 2 cents: gschem and pcb both really just want light symbols/footprints. It would never really be a good idea to expect to stick one into the other, I mean, what if you change packages or something? I guess you could up rev the schematic o

gEDA-user: Strange issue with images and printing

2007-11-28 Thread Steven Ball
Howdy guys, I'd noted this before, but it had been a while and it still seems to be an issue. If I place an image, say, a logo, on my schematic, if I do not zoom in on it before printing, gschem will print it very blocky, like it scales it to what it is currently set to on the scre

Re: gEDA-user: gschem: Simple text-substitution macros for textlabels?

2007-11-28 Thread Steven Ball
I was just looking into this myself. You have to explicitly tell SVN that it can modify your file by setting the svn:keywords property, ie: $ svn propset svn:keywords "LastChangedDate Author" schematic.sch Of course, I have not tested, but this is what the docs at http://svnbook.red-bean.com

Re: gEDA-user: PCAD to GEDA (GSCHEM)

2007-11-28 Thread Steven Ball
, 2007, at 12:28 PM, Steve Meier wrote: > Sure post an example and see if you can convert a symbol to an ascii > format. > > Steve Meier > > On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 12:19 -0700, Steven Ball wrote: >> On Nov 28, 2007, at 11:48 AM, Steve Meier wrote: >> >>> Ste

Re: gEDA-user: PCAD to GEDA (GSCHEM)

2007-11-28 Thread Steven Ball
On Nov 28, 2007, at 11:48 AM, Steve Meier wrote: > Steven, > > Are the files in a text based format? > There is a text header (PC-CAPS database file version, copyright), and then the rest of the file is binary gibberish. However, running it through the 'PDIF Writer' produces a .pdf, which i

Re: gEDA-user: PCAD to GEDA (GSCHEM)

2007-11-28 Thread Steven Ball
On Nov 28, 2007, at 9:53 AM, Dan McMahill wrote: > Peter Clifton wrote: >> On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 12:41 -0300, Alex Lopes Pereira wrote: >>> Does someone knows how to convert a schematic made in PCAD to gEDA >>> gschem ? >>> >>> Thanks a lot, >>> Alex >> >> Not off the top of my head, but if PCAD

Re: gEDA-user: firmware and the GPL license

2007-11-15 Thread Steven Ball
On Nov 15, 2007, at 1:01 PM, DJ Delorie wrote: > > That's why I license all my stuff so that you don't need to worry > about the license :-) Much appreciated. I currently work for a small company doing electronic repair and design, and the gEDA suite is just the ticket for getting things do

Re: gEDA-user: firmware and the GPL license

2007-11-15 Thread Steven Ball
So, to go on a tangent here, what about 'code' in the form of Gerbers and etc produced by PCB? Would you consider the resultant board produced by PCB to fall under a GPL license? Would I have to offer 'source' if I sold boards produced with the software? I realize a lot of the 'code' is s

Re: gEDA-user: Probably parenthesis mismatch error on OS X

2007-09-28 Thread Steven Ball
s Lepple wrote: > On Sep 27, 2007, at 6:13 PM, Steven Ball wrote: > >> >> Built from source, no issues now. >> >> I guess there is an issue with the binary package, then. > > Can you elaborate a little on what changed when you built from source? > > Which v

Re: gEDA-user: Probably parenthesis mismatch error on OS X

2007-09-27 Thread Steven Ball
Built from source, no issues now. I guess there is an issue with the binary package, then. Thanks all for your help! -Steve On Sep 27, 2007, at 1:47 PM, John Doty wrote: > Build from source is what worked for me. > > On Sep 27, 2007, at 1:45 PM, Steven Ball wrote: > >> >

Re: gEDA-user: Probably parenthesis mismatch error on OS X

2007-09-27 Thread Steven Ball
On Sep 27, 2007, at 1:26 PM, John Doty wrote: > > > Have you tried installing guile18, and then reinstalling geda-bundle? > I really suspect the Guile compatibility issues are biting you here. > There are some hoops the installer needs to jump through depending on > which version of Guile you have

Re: gEDA-user: Probably parenthesis mismatch error on OS X

2007-09-27 Thread Steven Ball
Guile 1.6.7 On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 13:55:11 -0400 (EDT), Stuart Brorson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Probably parenthesis mismatch in /sw/etc/gEDA/system-gschemrc >> Most recently read form: ([EMAIL PROTECTED] (build-path geda-rc-path > gschem-darkbg)) > > This sounds like a guile problem. Pleas

Re: gEDA-user: Probably parenthesis mismatch error on OS X

2007-09-26 Thread Steven Ball
/sw/etc/gEDA/gschem-darkbg exists, but you bring up a good point. The older, working version of the geda-bundle uses: (define gedadata (getenv "GEDADATA")) (define gedadatarc (getenv "GEDADATARC")) (load (string-append gedadatarc "/gschem-darkbg")) ; dark background The newer version uses (l

Re: gEDA-user: Probably parenthesis mismatch error on OS X

2007-09-26 Thread Steven Ball
Whups, I looked right over your post, sorry. Regardless, the #@ is -not- in the file it is sourcing. I have not looked through the source code, so I am unsure if it is parsing the file incorrectly or if it is just reporting it as #@ for... some reason. Would love to have it working, though,

Re: gEDA-user: Newbie fab Qs

2007-01-03 Thread Steven Ball
I've sent stuff to PCB Express using PCB, and it always comes out like a champ. Note that the 'board.plated-drill.cnc' is only the plated drill holes, and does not include any holes you have that are unplated. I usually open up 'board.unplated-drill.cnc' and copy over any holes (and dr

gEDA-user: Bug when printing a schematic with pictures?

2006-11-15 Thread Steven Ball
Hi all, I dug through the mailing list as best as I could, and did not find any specific mention of this issue, so I thought I would post here and see if anyone else is experiencing it or has a solution. I am running gschem version 20050820 on a Mac OSX machine. I realize this version i