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> > I declared my oppinion many times before, the best would be if where
> > possible to use any of the drawing primitives on any layer. I once
> > started work on clearance but are still busy with other things.
> 
> One ad hoc method would be to have silk lines in the fp file with
> linewidth == 0 to be reserved for solder paste areas.
> 
> Otherwise, one could invent a pad object flag of "paste" to say that
> this "pad" is a solder paste hole.

This "paste" flag invention is essentially the same as putting a square on the solde paste layer in the sense the square will end up on solder paste layer.