Re: gEDA-user: gerbv-2.3.0 released

2009-07-30 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 08:53:21 +0200, Chitlesh GOORAH wrote: > Once I have more time, I will propose "Electronics" as an official > menu to the freedesktop guys. It would be nice to have support from > other distributions as well during this process. Electronics-menu is a > default on Fedora for ab

Re: gEDA-user: gerbv-2.3.0 released

2009-07-29 Thread Chitlesh GOORAH
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 10:38 PM, Stefan Salewski wrote: >>The list of Main Categories consist of those categories that every >>conforming desktop environment MUST support. > > ste...@amd64-x2 ~ $ cat /usr/share/applications/gerbv.desktop > [Desktop Entry] > Version=1.0 > Encoding=UTF-8 > Name=Gerb

Re: gEDA-user: gerbv-2.3.0 released

2009-07-29 Thread Stefan Salewski
On Sat, 2009-07-11 at 13:42 -0400, Dan McMahill wrote: > A new version of gerbv has been released. We have an old bug report in Gentoo database: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220421 May be still valid for gerbv-2.3.0. http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apa.html >The li

Re: gEDA-user: gerbv-2.3.0 released

2009-07-15 Thread Stefan Salewski
On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 19:44 +0200, Stefan Salewski wrote: > > > > May there be something wrong with file > > > > AMD64-X2 apps # ls -l /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/gerbv.png > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4671 Jul 15 > > 17:19 /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/gerbv.png > > > > > > Sorry

Re: gEDA-user: gerbv-2.3.0 released

2009-07-15 Thread Stefan Salewski
On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 17:48 +0200, Stefan Salewski wrote: > On Sat, 2009-07-11 at 13:42 -0400, Dan McMahill wrote: > > A new version of gerbv has been released. > > Great work! > > I am working on the new ebuild script for Gentoo. > Seems to work fine, but I have no icon in gnome menu. > > May t

Re: gEDA-user: gerbv-2.3.0 released

2009-07-15 Thread Stefan Salewski
On Sat, 2009-07-11 at 13:42 -0400, Dan McMahill wrote: > A new version of gerbv has been released. Great work! I am working on the new ebuild script for Gentoo. Seems to work fine, but I have no icon in gnome menu. May there be something wrong with file AMD64-X2 apps # ls -l /usr/share/icons/hi

Re: gEDA-user: gerbv-2.3.0 released

2009-07-14 Thread Dan McMahill
John Luciani wrote: >On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Dan McMahill <[1]...@mcmahill.net> >wrote: > > John Luciani wrote: > >On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 2:07 AM, Dan McMahill > <[1][2]...@mcmahill.net> > >>wrote: >> >>Mark Rages wrote: >>> What is

Re: gEDA-user: gerbv-2.3.0 released

2009-07-14 Thread DJ Delorie
> It seems then that we're just missing the shading and texturing. There's probably some tricks with transparencies and blending to get the opacity of the solder mask layer right, and the non-top copper layers. I recall fiddling with those values a lot to get it realistic. Of course, you could

Re: gEDA-user: gerbv-2.3.0 released

2009-07-14 Thread Dan McMahill
DJ Delorie wrote: >> I guess I'd have to do some reading of the code to see exactly what >> photo-mode is doing though. > > It's pretty straight forward. It renders each layer into a separate > pbm, then composites them into a single ppm. The compositing loop is > around line 688 in hid/png/png.

Re: gEDA-user: gerbv-2.3.0 released

2009-07-14 Thread John Luciani
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Dan McMahill <[1]...@mcmahill.net> wrote: John Luciani wrote: >On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 2:07 AM, Dan McMahill <[1][2]...@mcmahill.net> >wrote: > >Mark Rages wrote: >> What is the likelihood of moving --photo-mode fr

Re: gEDA-user: gerbv-2.3.0 released

2009-07-14 Thread Dan McMahill
John Luciani wrote: >On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 2:07 AM, Dan McMahill <[1]...@mcmahill.net> >wrote: > >Mark Rages wrote: >> What is the likelihood of moving --photo-mode from pcb to gerbv >where >> it belongs? > > don't know about *moving* it. I'm certainly not opposed

Re: gEDA-user: gerbv-2.3.0 released

2009-07-14 Thread DJ Delorie
> Sorry for the poor choice of words. Can I call PCB from the command > line and output gerber files (or eps or ps)? All the exporters can be used from the command line via "-x". Run "pcb -help" for the full list of exporters and options. ___ geda-us

Re: gEDA-user: gerbv-2.3.0 released

2009-07-14 Thread John Luciani
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 11:10 AM, DJ Delorie <[1...@delorie.com> wrote: > Can PCB plot gerber files from the command line? It can't read a gerber file and plot it, if that's what you mean. It always loads a .pcb and does whatever with it. Sorry for the poor choice of

Re: gEDA-user: gerbv-2.3.0 released

2009-07-14 Thread DJ Delorie
> I guess I'd have to do some reading of the code to see exactly what > photo-mode is doing though. It's pretty straight forward. It renders each layer into a separate pbm, then composites them into a single ppm. The compositing loop is around line 688 in hid/png/png.c. There's a little extra

Re: gEDA-user: gerbv-2.3.0 released

2009-07-14 Thread DJ Delorie
> Can PCB plot gerber files from the command line? It can't read a gerber file and plot it, if that's what you mean. It always loads a .pcb and does whatever with it. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mai

Re: gEDA-user: gerbv-2.3.0 released

2009-07-14 Thread John Luciani
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 2:07 AM, Dan McMahill <[1]...@mcmahill.net> wrote: Mark Rages wrote: > What is the likelihood of moving --photo-mode from pcb to gerbv where > it belongs? don't know about *moving* it. I'm certainly not opposed to *adding* it to gerbv tho

Re: gEDA-user: gerbv-2.3.0 released

2009-07-13 Thread Dan McMahill
Mark Rages wrote: > On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Dan McMahill wrote: >> A new version of gerbv has been released. >> - gerbv: Make the svg/pdf/ps export use a 1:1 scale instead of >> scaling to fit the page. > > ^^ I used this feature last week, to make a paste stencil. Tha

Re: gEDA-user: gerbv-2.3.0 released

2009-07-11 Thread Mark Rages
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Dan McMahill wrote: > A new version of gerbv has been released. > - gerbv:     Make the svg/pdf/ps export use a 1:1 scale instead of >              scaling to fit the page. ^^ I used this feature last week, to make a paste stencil. Thank you. (In Inkscape, I adj

gEDA-user: gerbv-2.3.0 released

2009-07-11 Thread Dan McMahill
A new version of gerbv has been released. Thanks to everyone who provided testing and feedback on the last release and to Julian Lamb who fixed many bugs and made several improvements. Gerbv is *the* open source RS-274X (a.k.a. Gerber) and NC drill (a.k.a. Excellon) file viewer. Gerbv is a cr