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From: Kai-Martin Knaak <knaak AT iqo DOT uni-hannover DOT de>
Subject: Re: [geda-user] [pcb] Font Characters Stored in pcb File?
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2016 22:18:44 +0200
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Chad Parker wrote:

> Another solution might be to give the font a name, say, "pcb font 2016",
> and reference the name of the font in the text definition, or perhaps
> have a line somewhere in the file that specifies the font to use in the
> design. Then the fonts could be stored internal to pcb. If the font is
> tweaked, give it a new name. Existing layouts call out the old name, and
> get the intended font. 

I'd be happy to see this realized. It combines reliability with 
flexibility.


> And if someone decided to implement other fonts
> at some point, it would also give the user a way to make a selection.

Actually, there are already a couple of good looking alternative fonts 
contributed by Erich Heinzle. See his page on gedasymbols.org
	http://www.gedasymbols.org/user/erich_heinzle/
          (scroll down, to the very bottom of the page)

However, there is no font handling available in pcb. Right now, you'd have 
to manually copy-paste the new font into the *.pcb file with a text 
editor.

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