Re: gEDA-user: Text in PCB elements

[kai-martin knaak <kmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John Coppens wrote:

> Suggestions? Or maybe an estimate on how difficult it'd be for an
> average programmer to add?

If the text in footprints should behave like any other text, I'd 
say pretty hard. You'd have to adapt many places where footprints
get rendered. I addition, the footprint file format would have to
be expanded accordingly. And the format change would have to be
accepted by the devs.

A less ambitious way to achieve text in footprints would dissolve 
letters into lines and add them to the footprint like you would 
with ordinary lines. In silk they stay straight forward lines. In
copper they'd become SMD pads with the same name. Pads might 
optionally be covered with solder mask. The GUI might look up 
letters as footprints in the library and arrange them to yield
human readable text.

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