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Date:	Mon, 27 Aug 2012 17:31:04 -0400
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Subject:	Re: [geda-user] making footprints with text on the silk screen layer
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You can, but it requires a couple steps. It's the same process as
creating footprints from pdfs.

Draw your text to size in inkscape, export to ps, converting text to
paths, then use pstoedit to convert to the pcb backend, open up that
in PCB and add it to your footprint.


On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 5:14 PM, DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>
>> Is there support for text in footprints?
>
> No, there isn't.  Just the refdes field.
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