I have now uploaded a one stroke greek = font, and a cyrillic font, to the FTP site, along with glyph tables to allo= w people to figure out the keyboard mapping.

I have no experie= nce with asiatic languages, but the jpeg link atommann provided looked inte= resting, describing a standard chinese CAD font.

I created a path for pictogram 01 shown, and exported as an eps, = then ran pstoedit, and then used pcbFontTool to generate a default 4000 mil= character.

I have attached a quick example pcb file below, wi= th the pictogram mapped to the left quote (under the tilde, usually maps to= a blank rectangle in PCB)

at 4000 mil default font height it isn't very legib= le at all, but if a larger default font size were used in the final scaling= then the pictogram would be legible without zooming.

zooming in and out with S or shift+S will give you an idea.
<= br>

I could slowly trudge my way through the jpeg atommann linked= to and create a gEDA PCB one stroke pictogram font, but gEDA PCB's tex= t object will need to be modified to accept a parameter indicating a partic= ular font file and an index of 00...94 in the case of the GB/T 13844-92 cad= standard chinese font pictograms.

If there is a way to make such pictogr= ams usable by text objects (maybe its easy with the PCB code, I don't k= now), and if a chinese reader can do QA on my work output, I could convert = them to a PCB compatible font.

Cheers,

Erich,

#=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3Dcut her= e =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
# release: pcb 20110918

# To read pcb = files, the pcb version (or the git source date) must be >=3D the file ve= rsion
FileVersion[20070407]

PCB["" 85000 85000]

Grid[1000= .0 0 0 0]
Cursor[47000 43000 0.000000]
PolyArea[3100.006200]
Therm= al[0.500000]
DRC[1000 1000 1000 1000 1500 1000]
Flags("nameonpcb= ,uniquename,clearnew,snappin")
Groups("1,c:2:3:4:5:6,s:7:8")
Styles["Signal,1000,3600,20= 00,1000:Power,2500,6000,3500,1000:Fat,4000,6000,3500,1000:Skinny,600,2402,1= 181,600"]

#Here's chinese pictogram 0,01 from the link atom= mann provided
#inkscape was used to produce a path over the pictogram
#the pictogram w= as exported as a 200 dpi eps
#pstoedit was run with
#
# ChinesePi= ctograms.eps -psarg "-r1000x1000" -f pcb ChinesePictograms200dpi.= pcb
#
#then pcbFontTool was used
#
# cat ChinesePictograms200dpi.pcb = | pcbFontTool -s\` > ChinesePictogram001.txt
#
#and this was embed= ded in a PCB fill to try it out, and mapped to the left single quote (on th= e same key as tilde ~)
#it is not especially legible at the smallest, default text size, but with = zooming it is quite legible.
#if gEDA PCB's text objects can be modi= fied such that
# 1) any given text object can refer to a particular font= file, and
# 2) a character code of two digits length, i.e. 01...99, and we can do the= chinese pictograms 13844-92 atommann refers to.
# and someone slowly wo= rks their way though the jpg atommann lnked too (I could do this)
# and = atommann or someone who can read chinese confirms that the symbols are legi= ble, then we are well on the way.

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)
Attribute("PCB::g= rid::unit" "mil")
Layer(1 "poly")
(
=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 Text[26000 28000 0 770= "`" "clearline"]
)
Layer(2 "ground")(
)
Layer(3 "signal2")
(
)
Layer(4 "signal3= ")
(
)
Layer(5 "power")
(
)
Layer(6 "bottom"= ;)
(
)
Layer(7 "outline")
(
)
Layer(8 "spa= re")
(
)
Layer(9 "signal9")
(
)
Layer(10 &= quot;silk")
(
)
#=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3Dcut here =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D

=C2=A0

On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 4= :16 PM, Atommann <atommann AT gmail DOT com> wrote:

Hi,

2014-08-28 20:24 GMT+08:00 Erich Heinzle <a1039181 AT gmail DOT com>:

>
> If there are any users keen on having the Hershey cyrillic or greek gl= yphs
> converted I can convert them too, or if users have a FOSS centerline > aka 1 stroke font they would like converted, I can give it a go.

This is great!
With this method I think it's possible to put Chinese characters on PCB= .

There's a standard for Chinese characters for CAD stuff.
Standard Number:=C2=A0 GB/T 13844-1992
Vector Danxian songti font set and data set of Chinese ideogram for
graphics information interchange
http://= www.freestd.us/soft/181203.htm

The characters looks like this -
https://www.flickr.com/photos/atommann/14883660247/

It's a vector font. But as far as I know there's no open source
version of this font.

--
Best regards,
Atommann