On Mon, 2011-08-22 at 18:29 +0200, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > I subscribed to the mailing list, too. And so did Larry Doolittle, who already > wrote to the list. :-) > > The response by Javier Serrano was interesting: > ( http://lists.ohwr.org/sympa/arc/foss-pcb/2011-08/msg00003.html ) > The commercial package he wants to keep up with seems to be altium designer. > I used protel99 (the predecessor of altium designer) from 2000 to 2005. And I > must say, that I too missed most of the features Javier asks for, since I > started with geda. I think many of the issues he raises can be addressed if there is a serious motivation to do it. Even conversion of old legacy Altium designs could be done given access to known sample files and developer time (e.g. money). I was working on a funded project to reverse engineer those file-format at while back, and the only reason it has stalled so far is a lack of my time. The formats aren't so bad to understand once you've had some luck figuring out the binary compression scheme. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328 - (Shared lab phone, ask for me)
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