--- In kicad-users@yahoogroups.com, "ross b" <rossb...@...> wrote:
>
> Hi All:
>
> I was wondering where to find 'Bitmap2kicad' a Google search brings back to
> the Kicad main page. Any help is appreciated.
>
> Thanks Ross Bell
>
Hi Ross,
If you are wanting to put logos on the schematic or PCB that are defined in
bitmaps, I think what you need is the new included tool bitmap2component. It's
a command line tool.
This was introduced in the bzr2393 development release, but I don't believe it
hasn't made it into the stable release yet, so if you want to try it out,
you'll have to build KiCad from the development sources. The easiest way to
obtain these is to check out a copy from the Launchpad repository using the
Bazaar source control tool, which you'll obviously have to install. You'll also
need all the KiCad dependencies like wxWidgets, Boost, and also the Cmake
makefile tool.
I do this routinely now on Linux since the rate of development progress is now
so fast, but I've not managed to successfully build it on Windows yet. Magnus
Beischer used to host nightly-build binaries, but I've just checked, and
they've not been updated recently, so unless you can find another host, you'll
have to build it yourself. You can of course build the Windows version on Linux
too, but I've not tried this yet.
bitmap2component was initially only available on Linux, but I don't know
whether this has changed.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Tony
