Hello guys. I see that this bug is fairly old, but as a person recently introduced to Kicad, I must tell you that the font appearance was an immediate turn-off! I know this sounds bubble-gum, twitter-ish, gen-me shallow, but first appearances really have a profound impact on the *perception* of quality.
It's been a while since I've played with fonts, but I agree that the font should not be compiled in and one should definately NOT have to manually draw a font! In fact, by zooming in on the schematic view and not researching at all, I could tell that the font was custom made from straight lines. So in other words, it's obvious. It is my uneducated opinion that we *should* be able to use some existing font library to transform vector fonts into the language of gerber without too much problem, although I can't comment on what it would take to make the change in kicad. IMHO, the design should have abstracted the font from the start, although I realize the importance of sometimes "just getting a product done" and accepting costs like hard- coded fonts. Is anybody still working on this? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/668145 Title: Font preferences not available anymore, internal font changed To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/668145/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
