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On Mon, 2014-09-15 at 00:59 +0930, Erich Heinzle wrote:
> I have batch processed the gnu unifont bdf

Is there a detailed description available about the conversion process?

I can remember that I was not really happy with PCB's way including
fonts as lines in each pcb file some years ago, so I did some thinking
about how to do on the fly conversion of arbitrary fonts -- inkscape's
ability to convert bitmaps to vector graphics was one possible way that
time, but I have never investigated it. (My general idea was to use
ordinary fonts for screen display, and convert to lines only for gerber
export.)

I have never seen a pcb board with a single Chinese character, and I can
not imagine why an Asian person should have the wish to have such glyphs
on a pcb board. But the conversion process is interesting of course...