Re: gEDA-user: Functional blocks and PCB format changes

[Mark Rages <markrages@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Andrew Poelstra <asp11@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 07:35:29PM -0400, Windell H. Oskay wrote:
>>
>> > I say no to raw XML as making out own format,  but would use SVG with
>> > extra info embedded.
>> >
>> > This way our drawings would work in all modern web browsers, we get all of
>> > the primitives we would ever want, including fancy curves, built in layers
>> > and more......
>>
>> Interesting idea.  Could preview footprints *natively* at gedasymbols.
>>
>> It *would* be pretty awesome to be able to use SVG graphics for silk
>> layers.  Fancy curves might work well for future routers as well.
>>
>
> I don't think SVG is appropriate for storing entire PCBs. There's too
> much non-graphical data in .pcb files.
>
> Footprints, yes, that could work.

Thankfully, SVG is specified in an eXtensible markup language.

Regards,
Mark
markrages@gmail
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Mark Rages, Engineer
Midwest Telecine LLC
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