X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com From: Kai-Martin Knaak Subject: Re: [geda-user] adding arbitrary text capability to footprint creation Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 21:29:48 +0200 Organization: Institut =?ISO-8859-1?Q?f=FCr?= Quantenoptik Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" X-Complaints-To: usenet AT ger DOT gmane DOT org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: bibo.iqo.uni-hannover.de User-Agent: KNode/4.11.5 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id s3EJULsq000723 Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Britton Kerin wrote: > I've had some costly time-wasting communication failures with board > houses that could probably be avoided with notes on the silk. > > I use Pcb_9.pm to make non-standard footprints. I'd like to be able to > add arbitrary bits of silkscreen text to footprints, besides the refdes. This would require a change in the footprint format. I'd wholeheartedly welcome such a change. Would it be possible to do this with attributes, so older versions of pcb won't barf? ---<)kaimartin(>--- -- Kai-Martin Knaak tel: +49-511-762-2895 Universität Hannover, Inst. für Quantenoptik fax: +49-511-762-2211 Welfengarten 1, 30167 Hannover http://www.iqo.uni-hannover.de GPG key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=Knaak+kmk&op=get