Re: gEDA-user: Text in PCB elements

[Mark Rages <markrages@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 8:23 PM, John Coppens <john@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:07:58 -0800
> Colin D Bennett <colin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Unfortunately this may not work well for footprints since I have found
>> the best results from pstoedit to be achieved using the pcbfill
>> output driver, which uses only polygons to render text, and PCB does
>> not support polygons in footprints, even on the silk layer, apparently.
>
> I was looking at the source code, and I have the impression that
> polygons are possible in footprints, though only rectangular ones.
>
> I'm somewhat confused about the workings of PCB in this aspect - I
> suspect this has something to do with the complexity of rotation etc.
> Probably someone is needed to code complex polygon rotations...
>
> John
>

The code for rotations is there in FreeRotateBuffer().
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotation_matrix

Regards,
Mark
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Mark Rages, Engineer
Midwest Telecine LLC
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