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Is this anything? On Oct 13, 2013 2:25 AM, "Lorenzo Marcantonio" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 04:28:58AM -0000, Daniel Santos wrote: > > >From a cursory examination of the Gerber spec (which I've never worked > > with before). It looks like the appropriate way to render an arbitrary > > font from it's vector representation is to render each non-contiguous > > shape of each glyph as a single contour (enable region mode with G36, > > draw the contour and then end the region mode with G37). Now this is > > tricky for many reasons. > > The recommended way to render arbitrary images/fonts in gerber (and > AFAIK the approach used by every CAD supporting truetype fonts in > gerber) is using horizontal rasters. Usually the raster pitch is wide as > the aperture or maybe half of it for better edge quality; also the > raster approach actually follows the mechanics of the silkscreen process > (which *is* done on a raster of wires...) > > I did a proof-of-concept demo some year ago (about when we switched from > the 'squared' font) but the idea wasn't pursued for lack of interest > (and display performance reasons, too). > > Another reason is that the plotting infrastructure need to implement > text in postscript/PDF too and that is even more tricky than gerber. > > -- > Lorenzo Marcantonio > Logos Srl > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are a member of KiCad Bug > Squad, which is subscribed to KiCad. > 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 > -- 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 [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
