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

[Steven Michalske <smichalske@xxxxxxxxx>]

wow  i was playing with this

inkscape will use pstoedit to import ps files

this should be easier than the screen shots


On Jul 14, 2007, at 6:33 PM, Steve Meier wrote:

> Very nice!
>
> Steve Meier
>
> 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?
>>
>>
>
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