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Yes that's conclusion I made while looking at the gerber file format for a few minutes. For gerbers I think there are macros and for pcb there are footprints. It might however be useful with different sizes but I still beleive in converting to different primitives since then drawing the layers no new drawing primitives will be introduced.


> There is no need to depend on the availability of external fonts on a
> particular system. I believe the lowest overhead way of doing this
> would be to convert a true-type font to primitives (lines, arcs,
> circles) and package it as a set of footprints in the layout database.
> All that is needed is a script to convert a range of characters in a
> true-type font into a library of footprints. That way, when a text
> primitive is inserted into a design, the graphical editor just inserts
> the converted footprints for each character.
> 
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 3:30 AM, Levente (leventelist AT gmail DOT com) [via
> geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
> > Yes, that would be nice to have pretty fonts on the layout, and also
> > arbitrary bitmap. To be honest, I don't know how to implement that when it
> > comes to gerber output.
> >
> > Maybe with one of these?
> >
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_raster-to-vector_conversion_software
> >
> > Lev
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 8:51 AM, Gabriel Paubert (paubert AT iram DOT es) [via
> > geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 01:22:06AM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
> >> > "Lev (leventelist AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]"
> >> > <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
> >> > > Yes, text is not yet implemented. My take on this is to use graphical
> >> > > primitives, and draw texts from those, just like gEDA/pcb uses lines.
> >> >
> >> > If you are considering a change to how text is implemented, please
> >> > seriously consider UTF8 plus TrueType (or other external fonts) rather
> >> > than one hard-coded 7-bit stick-figure font.
> >>
> >> Seconded, but I have 2 questions:
> >>
> >> Is is possible to guarantee a minimal set of available fonts on any
> >> system?
> >> (Honestly I have no idea, I use TeX, never MSOffice or LibreOffice for
> >> writing documents).
> >>
> >> A good library to transform UTF8 8 to vector/polygons that can be used
> >> for Gerber/gcode?
> >> (Maybe related to the first)
> >>
> >>     Gabriel
> >>
> >