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Date: | Sat, 6 Sep 2014 13:45:29 -0500 (CDT) |
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Subject: | Re: [geda-user] Chinese glyph rendering in pcb as symbols |
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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. -- Matthew Skala mskala AT ansuz DOT sooke DOT bc DOT ca People before principles. http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/
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