Re: gEDA-user: PCB not saving silkscreen when I try to make footprints

[Anthony Shanks <yamazakir2@xxxxxxxxx>]

Oh crap, thats it, I made the silk with polygons, not lines... whoops...

On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak <kmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:04:35 -0800, Anthony Shanks wrote:
>
>> 1. Draw the silkscreen and pins (drawn with vias in the component layer)
>> 2. Select all objects
>> 3. Copy selection to buffer
>> 4. Convert buffer to element
>> 5. Save buffer elements to file
>
> Thats ok.
> (I do all my footprints that way)
>
>> When i load the foorprint in PCB, the silkscreen is gone and all that
>> remains is the pins.
>
> The silk of footprints can only deal with lines and arcs. All the other
> objects like polygons, rectangles and text are silently omitted. in some
> cases, the inability to put text in footprints lead me to literary draw
> letters with the line tool...
>
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