Re: gEDA-user: fritzing

[John Doty <jpd@xxxxxxxxx>]

On May 13, 2009, at 12:42 PM, al davis wrote:

> On Wednesday 13 May 2009, John Doty wrote:
>> The graphics problem is 1000x harder, but gets almost no
>> mention in   your proposal.
>
> The intent is not to translate the symbols themselves, any more
> than moving between text markup formats translates fonts.

The difference is that a schematic is profoundly graphical, in a way  
that text isn't.

>
> My proposal does consider placement, which should be enough.

I think few would consider this enough. Without graphics, placement  
is of little use. And for graphic-free translation, the pins2gsch  
approach is pretty trivial, at least for simple netlist formats  
(Verilog is somewhat harder to parse).

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
http://www.noqsi.com/
jpd@xxxxxxxxx




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