Re: gEDA-user: questions to PCB custom silkscreen contents

[Xtian Xultz <xultz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Probably my solution will not be good to you. 
I allways made production from the .ps files, not the gerber files. A little 
strange, but is the best for me. 
So, I place the undesired silk text outside the board.
Then, I use pstoedit to convert the .ps to .sk and edit it in skencil.
Then I made my boards...

Em Sex 14 Out 2005 15:31, Michael Schewe escreveu:
> I am using PCB 20050315 (Xaw) and have problems in setting up the
> silkscreen for PCB production of my first board. I want that not all the
> RefDes and components outlines are included (as many small SMD text wont
> match the printing technology requirements). I like to have only some large
> connector's RefDes on it.
> I expected that the standard "silk" layer cant be used for it.
> So i tried a other free layer and placed the desired strings on it. But
> now, when generating a postscript check-printout, i see that all the
> trough-hole pads occur also on this layer, making it impossible to use it
> for silkscreen printing as then the pads wont solder from the component
> side. Anyone knows how to solve ?
>
> Next qestion is on Text dimensions. When i set Text size 1.0 what are the
> resulting Text height and linewidth [mils] in the gerber files ? When
> setting Text size larger it seems that the linewidth is not made bigger.
> How is that possible ?
>
> Michael