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> Eagle and Diptrace paint pads with strokes, which is not compliant with the
> standard, making it hard to turn them back into a simple pad.
> 
> PCB seems to use polygons for square pads, rather than flashed apertures,
> which is not compliant with the standard either, but these are equilateral
> so identifying them as  simple pads is not too hard.

What do you think about adding "flashed apertures" instead of "square pads" to the pcb todo or whish list to make it comply with the standard?

Maybe I could even look into it myself some day.