X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Message-ID: <5236B781.1000301@envinsci.co.uk> Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 08:47:13 +0100 From: Matt Rhys-Roberts Organization: Envin Scientific Ltd. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130803 Thunderbird/17.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: [geda-user] PCB: why does pin name lettering appear on top & bottom copper Gerber output? References: <522EF85C DOT 1000206 AT envinsci DOT co DOT uk> <201309101628 DOT r8AGSkcs017932 AT envy DOT delorie DOT com> <1379037336 DOT 25012 DOT 3 DOT camel AT pcjc2lap> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------090306020503020206050104" Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------090306020503020206050104 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 13/09/13 04:34, Stephen Ecob wrote: > On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Peter Clifton > wrote: > > On Tue, 2013-09-10 at 12:28 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: > > > AFAIK this is a feature, not a bug. > > > > I think it's more of a bug > > Definately a bug IMO. > > > I hope that we can retain the ability to print out pin names somehow, > the ability to do so may have been introduced as a bug but it can be > useful :) Agreed, if this function/phenomenon is already useful, I vote for just making it optional ;) And I didn't know a Makefile could produce more reliable Gerbers, as mentioned a couple of replies ago. Is there something inherently unreliable about producing Gerbers straight from the GUI? --------------090306020503020206050104 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
On 13/09/13 04:34, Stephen Ecob wrote:
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Peter Clifton <pcjc2 AT cam DOT ac DOT uk> wrote:
On Tue, 2013-09-10 at 12:28 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
> > AFAIK this is a feature, not a bug.
>
> I think it's more of a bug

Definately a bug IMO.

I hope that we can retain the ability to print out pin names somehow, the ability to do so may have been introduced as a bug but it can be useful :)

Agreed, if this function/phenomenon is already useful, I vote for just making it optional ;)

And I didn't know a Makefile could produce more reliable Gerbers, as mentioned a couple of replies ago. Is there something inherently unreliable about producing Gerbers straight from the GUI?
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