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Subject: Re: [geda-user] making footprints with text on the silk screen
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On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 17:31:04 -0400
Nathan Stewart <therealnathanstewart AT gmail DOT com> wrote:

> 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.

Except you can't use polygons, online lines.
Usually I use pstoedit to create polygon objects in PCB, but
footprints unfortunately don't support polygons.

Regards,
Colin