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On Fri, 5 Sep 2014, Jason White wrote:
> > I consider this impractical if you regulary switch between text editor
> > and PCB.
> > And it completely breaks revision control systems without having a
> > specific ZIP plugin.
>
> I'm curious if that is a very common use case among gEDA users?
> I certainly spend a lot more time in the tool than the text editor.

I use revision control on PCB files and a non-text format would probably
be a dealbreaker for me.  ZIP is *not* an adequate substitute; a directory
would be marginally usable.  But UTF-8 text would be just fine.

I don't think embedding gigantic binary fonts is a good idea.  Store the
name of the font, store the text in UTF-8, ship some standard fonts, and
if someone wants to use a non-standard font, then they are responsible for
seeing that it is installed on the systems where they will use the files.
That's what word processors do, and it works.

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Matthew Skala
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