Re: gEDA: Announcement : gerbv-0.0.1

[Stefan Petersen <spe@stacken.kth.se>]

Hi Graham,

On Sun, 26 Aug 2001, Graham Seaman wrote:

> On Sat, 25 Aug 2001, Ales Hvezda wrote:
> 
> > 	One random question, mind if I mirror the tarball, and setup
> > a tools webpage on the gEDA machine?
> >
> And is it ok for me to put it on Open Collector? 

Of course, nema problema. If you guarantee better/proper english (ie
don't cut-and-paste my announcement) ;-) Thanks!!


> By the way, do you know about Adam Seychell's gerb2tif program (just
> in case there's any duplicated work going on...
> http://home.alphalink.com.au/~seychell/)

Yes, I saw it when I had started my project. gerb2tif is written in c++ ,
handles some more Gerber and is more portable since it's not dependent on
any external library. I have separated the parsing stage and the drawing
stage (maybe gerb2tif has too) and my main goal is to view the Gerber on
screen, with the added bonus of backends. I have actually downloaded,
compiled and tested it. I haven't used any code since I have a very hard
time understanding C++.

But I would very much like to have a TIFF backend to gerbv. ;-)

Regards,
/spe
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