Re: gEDA-user: pcb GL can't render stretched arcs

[karl@xxxxxxxxxxx (Karl Hammar)]

Looking at pcb.pdf, page 64, section 8.8.1 Arc...

Andrew Poelstra:
...
> If you have a full ellipse, then Width and Height are exactly
> what they sound like -- the full length from one side of the
> ellipse to the other.

The file format specifies it as:

  Width Height
   The width and height, from the center to the edge. ...

Are you saying that the parser etc. is doubling it?

> There is no way right now to rotate the ellipse, so alpha
> from the site you cited is always 0.
...

And there is no way to specify a "slanted" ellipse in the file format
either, so if we really want ellipses, the file format is incomplete
and should be changed.

Why not just give a warning if width and height is not equal, saying
that we don't really support ellipses for the moment, and be done with
it.

Regards,
/Karl Hammar

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