Armin Faltl wrote: >> The GUI might look up >> letters as footprints in the library and arrange them to yield >> human readable text. > This sounds like recursive call of footprints to me
No. In this scenario, the footprints do not contain real, editable text. What looks like text to humans is just lines in silk, or pads in copper to pcb. > - what is the advantage to proper text rendering by the routines that > do it for silk refdes? * No need to change the core engine of pcb * No change in footprint format As a consequence, it would be easier to code and implement. > It has the same implications to footprint file format as any other > rendering method. There is a difference: The rendering happens on footprint creation time. It is irreversible, meaning, the text cannot be edited after the fact. ---<)kaimartin(>--- -- Kai-Martin Knaak tel: +49-511-762-2895 Universität Hannover, Inst. für Quantenoptik fax: +49-511-762-2211 Welfengarten 1, 30167 Hannover http://www.iqo.uni-hannover.de GPG key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=Knaak+kmk&op=get _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
