X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 23:57:48 -0600 From: To: Subject: [geda-user] pstoedit pcb and pcbfill issues Message-ID: X-Sender: jbump AT frii DOT com User-Agent: Tuxedo/0.1 X-MagicMail-UUID: 378e6238-37ba-11e3-9035-782bcb6d568b X-MagicMail-Authenticated: jbump AT frii DOT com Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com This may not be the right place to ask, since it's really a question about pstoedit, but I'm trying to move a scanned picture into a layout, by autotracing it so I get the board outline and the copper areas. Then I export that from inkscape as an encapsulated postscript and run it through pcbtoedit to get a pcbfile. The issue I'm having is that pstoedit blah.eps -f pcb blah.pcb gives me a perfectly good, usable board. pstoedit blah.eps -f pcbfill blah.pcb gives me an equally good, usable board, with the y axis shifted a couple of thousand mils. So when I import the copper, as fills (I'm copying an ancient pcb that goes inside a Triumph Spitfire turn signal, so both the copper and the board outline are very strange shapes) it shows up in the pcb in an entirely different place than the board outline. I can scoot one or the other. But if anyone has played with this and knows how I can force -pcbfill to retain the x and y location of the original file, I'd love to know about it. (my actual workaround is just importing everything as pcb and then tracing the copper as a polygon, which works fine when I only have three huge copper areas, but would be less fun were I copying a complex single-sided pcb.) Thanks for any advice.