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	(message from Erich Heinzle on Sat, 6 Sep 2014 15:02:07 +0930)
Subject:	Re: [geda-user] Chinese glyph rendering in pcb as symbols
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> Down the track, if someone thinks they can replace the code with
> something that will convert an outline font to a pcb symbol and do a
> better job, the stroke rendering code could be replaced.

No reason why pcb couldn't present a glyph as a polygon instead of a
set of lines.  Then it could draw any outline font "perfectly".

But to do a bitmap font, we'd need to convert each pixel into a
separate polygon (square).

The gerbers for either solution would be huge, though.  Simple stroked
fonts (like pcb's default) are pretty gerber-friendly.

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