Re: gEDA-user: add Logo to silkscreen in pcb, exactly how to insert the EPS?

[andrew whyte <aw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Apologies if this post is a little late.  I realise that others have
answered this, but I have some more info, and more questions...

I have used pstoedit to creat pcb logos in the silk screen,   I made
my logo into a black and white only version using inkscape(I also had
to convert the whole think to a single-shape/few-shapes using the
menu: Path>>Object to path, and the Path>>union functions - and reduce
the number of vertices to something that made a reasonably sized
file), then I exported to ps then ran:

> pstoedit -xscale 0.25 -yscale 0.25 -f pcb ./paramita-logo-BW-hi-res.ps ./logo-output.pcb

at the command line.  This makes a layout file,  then I converted this
to a symbol as usual.   I have a logo .sym file that I drop into each
schematic, then the footprint automatically appears on the pcb in the
silk layer when I run xgsch2pcb.

The only think that I sometimes would like, would be to be able to
convert the solid shapes on the ps into solid areas of silk/copper.
pstoedit seems to make shapes into outlines, and outlines into double
lines.  Has anyone ever solved this one?  Is there a simple way to
move shapes from one layer to another within pcb (eg. silk -> copper)
Would I be best scripting my own svg-pcb converter?


Andrew

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