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Re: gEDA-user: GerberViewr gerbv



DJ Delorie wrote:
>> Also, in the MS-Windows world you can buy Gerber viewers with OCR
>> and they aren't terribly expensive.
> 
> Are you sure they're OCRing and not reading the label out of the
> gerbers in some other way, like a comment or a gerber-extension for
> "print text FOO here" ?
> 
> One test would be to see if they can "read" the refdes's from a
> gEDA/pcb board, since I know I'm not outputting any regular text in
> those.
> 

Well, all they get is the plain RS-274-X photo plotter files. I looked 
at the silk01 and silk04 of the board I have in fab right now. No refdes 
info whatsoever in there.

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