Re: gEDA-user: Google Summer of Code 2011

[John Griessen <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 03/05/2011 05:04 AM, Peter Clifton wrote:
> It depends on the primitives used - but I expect it is not too hard
> either way. SVG does of course support a lot of things which RS-274X
> cannot though.

OK.  YOU can make SVG that is easily translatable, but if you had a
footprint tool that used it because so much content is available from other sources,
you might get the outlined content very often and have to convert it
to stroked lines.  Having a translator would enable using SVG, but
using SVG would not allow importing-to-PCB of any kind of drawn trace
until you created an outline-filling-in routine so you have the
RS-274X compatible stroked line primitives.

So, the essence of what's needed to get more easy use of existing
drawing tools like inkscape is a SVG<-->PCB translator with an outline-filling-in routine.

Then you could make a stand alone tool based on inkscape if coding seemed easier that way.
Otherwise basing it on PCB, (requiring scheme and maybe C to do it), is it.

John


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