Re: gEDA-user: Hand-made "PNG export"

[Steven Michalske <smichalske@xxxxxxxxx>]

very pretty picture.

the better idea is to write a SVG exporter,  then each layer is in  
vector format, then use inkscape or any other SVG editor) to edit the  
colors and stack them up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Electronics/ 
How_to_draw_SVG_circuits_using_Xcircuit

this way you could theoretically color code the traces and what not

Steve.

On Jul 14, 2007, at 6:31 PM, Ben Jackson wrote:

> I didn't care for the PNG exporter so I laboriously made a PNG with
> screendumps and the GIMP.
>
> 	http://ad7gd.net/misc/flexpretty.png
>
> Main steps:
>
> Took snapshot of only soldermask, changed color, made partially  
> transparent.
> Used select by color to delete all the holes.
>
> Took snapshot of all top copper, used select by color to get it all  
> selected
> and then did a gradient fill with a gold gradient for that SMOBC look.
> Then I inverted the selection and deleted the rest.
>
> Took a snapshop of the top silk, inverted it, then used levels to  
> make the
> black really black and set the layer mode to 'add'.
>
> Put a black background behind it all.
>
> Did it all at 2x of the final resolution so I could do a shrink by  
> 2x at
> the end for anti-aliasing.
>
> Any HID experts want to guess at how hard it would be to make an  
> exporter
> that did this sort of thing automatically?
>
> -- 
> Ben Jackson AD7GD
> <ben@xxxxxxx>
> http://www.ben.com/
>
>
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