Re: gEDA-user: [pcb] "Ben Mode" board photograph exporter

[Dave N6NZ <n6nz@xxxxxxxx>]

Cool.  Looks very nice.

-dave

DJ Delorie wrote:
> Based on Ben's GIMP work:
> 
> 	http://seul.org/pipermail/geda-user/2007-July/006639.html
> 
> I made the relevent changes to the png exporter to produce these
> directly, and checked them in.  Photos here:
> 
> 	http://www.delorie.com/pcb/ben-mode/
> 
> The shadow/highlight algorithms are designed for 9x oversampling
> (i.e. give 300 dpi then scale it down to 100dpi in gimp).  4x
> oversampling left too many "ghost edges".
> 
> Ideas for improvements:
> 
> * build the antialiasing downsampling into the hid.
> 
> * options for silk/mask color.
> 
> * make the drills truly transparent using the png alpha channel.
>   (option for light/dark background might be needed).
> 
> * options for tinned/untinned copper.
> 
> * options for showing paste.
> 
> * support outline layer to make shaped image using alpha channel.
> 
> For now, though, I'll leave it alone - I just needed one image for an
> article ;-)
> 
> DJ
> 
> 
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