Re: gEDA-user: Postscript PCB lines

[Xtian Xultz <xultz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Em Qua 01 Mar 2006 16:29, DJ Delorie escreveu:
> > Can you please send to me in private and .ps output, I am curious to
> > take a look?
>
> Done.  For everyone else, I put a sample (my old furnace controller)
> here:
>
> http://www.delorie.com/pcb/control.ps
> http://www.delorie.com/pcb/control.pdf
> http://www.delorie.com/pcb/control-bw.ps
> http://www.delorie.com/pcb/control-bw.pdf
>
> The -bw versions are 1:1 scale and monochrome (i.e. useful for making
> pcbs), while the non-bw versions are color and "fill-page"
> (i.e. useful for reference when populating a pcb).

Dj, I looked a lot at your files. The result is absolutelly awesome. I didnt 
understood what are those fat black lines around the design.

Well, the output is nice for documentation.
Maybe it is strange to you, because AFAIK you allways made your boards from 
the gerber files, but it is cheaper to me made my boards from the ps files 
because is cheaper to made the films in a print bureau that do not accept 
gerber files (actually they only accept .cdr files from CorelDraw, but Corel 
imports pcb .ps files nicelly). When I need more acurate boards I had to made 
the films in another print bureau that only accepts gerbers, but I dont know 
why when I have a line on the silk over a pad, those prints dont cut the 
lines out, maybe the gerber program is outdated. So, I have two reasons to 
prefer to made the films from ps files.
Using an output like that you sended, I had to open it on ghostview, print in 
separate files as a ps file the layers I wich to made films (I cannot send 
the entire file and say "Please, print these, these and these pages" because 
they are so bonne head and will made films from the entire file). 

So, what I will say is not a must have, but is just a sugestion: to have an 
option on the print dialog, to print in one file or separate file (please, 
inside an directory), I think that is better to have more options. 

Anyway, the work you are doing is absolutelly awesome. I am just afraid about 
if the work you are doing in Lesstif will be usefull, because IMHO the 
Lesstif are tremendous ugly and outdated. But its just great.