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On Thu, 30 Jun 2016, Atommann (atommann AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Images are more intuitive than names.
>
> Luciani's website use images to show the footprints. Maybe gedasymbols
> can also do similar things.
> http://www.luciani.org/geda/pcb/footprints-gif/cap-gif.html
>
> * Generate the images on the fly.
>  I think the troughput/bandwidth/computing load will be too high.
> * Cache the images in the server.
>  Also high bandwidth.
>
> Another possible solution is the gEDA user can set his own local
> server and has the image search function on the local sever instead of
> the central one.
>

I went for a third option after the big cleanup of the default footprint 
lib shipped with pcb-rnd. This one uses pregenerated pngs and imagemaps:

http://igor2.repo.hu/tmp/pcblib/

The idea is to put all the different footprints on a single lower res 
overview image, so it's easy to browse through them, preferrably without 
scrolling. They are groupped by some arbitrary categorization. Each group 
is an imagemap link to a higher resolution rendering where each footprint 
is an imagemap link to the footprint page.

This probably works only for small libraries where the all-footprint 
overview page fits on an average screen.

Regards,

Igor2