On 3/16/09, Dan McMahill <[email protected]> wrote: > One thing I'm wondering though is if we'll ever have issues with fonts > being different on different systems. Where I'm headed with that is > what if user A designs a board and the text is all ok (no DRC violations > like silk on pads, etc). Then user A gives the design in .pcb format to > user B who has a different set of fonts installed.
I'm absolutely sure the fonts must be embedded; I see no other way to transfer PCB files reliably. I probably should test different freetype2 library versions to check how fully the results are reproduced. > Neat stuff and it seems that a real benefit here is in supporting silk > screen in languages other than english. I wonder if any other board > layout tool can do this. PCAD-200x can (at least, I asked a PCB designer at my workplace and he demonstrated me Cyrillics). Best regards, Ineiev _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
