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On Mon, 15 Jun 2015, Evan Foss (evanfoss AT gmail DOT com) wrote:

> Perhaps starting with the PCB side is a miss step. A lot of the gEDA folks have long wanted to overhaul their PCB stuff anyway for architectural reasons. At
> best moving footprints between KiCAD and gEDA's companion PCB would make more sense.
> 
> Alternatively working on schematic interchange could work. The gEDA schematic capture and etc are very well thought out and mature.

[snip]

For those starting from gschem - there is an easy way to try kicad.  See
 	http://www.gedasymbols.org/user/frank_miles/
for a gnetlist script that will generate kicad-compatible netlists.

And when you need custom footprints - the python footprint generator
from Darrel Harmon will generate either 'pcb' (gEDA) or 'pcbnew' (KiCad)
compatible output:
 	http://dlharmon.com/geda/footgen.html

So far I don't know of any tools that make the kicad-schematic -> 'pcb'
netlist.

 	HTH...