Re: gEDA-user: Text in PCB elements

[Armin Faltl <armin.faltl@xxxxxx>]

kai-martin knaak wrote:
> 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.
If the font is the 'monoline' type generally used in pcb, the redition 
can be
taken from there and is sort of a 10-liner in OpenGL anyway.
>  I addition, the footprint file format would have to
> be expanded accordingly. And the format change would have to be
> accepted by the devs.
>   
sure
> 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 - what is the 
advantage to
proper text rendering by the routines that do it for silk refdes? It has the
same implications to footprint file format as any other rendering method.


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