On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 08:29:53PM +0200, Karl Hammar wrote: > Looking at pcb.pdf, page 64, section 8.8.1 Arc... > > Andrew Poelstra: > ... > > If you have a full ellipse, then Width and Height are exactly > > what they sound like -- the full length from one side of the > > ellipse to the other. > > The file format specifies it as: > > Width Height > The width and height, from the center to the edge. ... > > Are you saying that the parser etc. is doubling it? >
Oh, my bad! I had checked manually what it did yesterday, and misremembered the behavior. You are right, Width and Height are the distance from the center to the edge. > > There is no way right now to rotate the ellipse, so alpha > > from the site you cited is always 0. > ... > > And there is no way to specify a "slanted" ellipse in the file format > either, so if we really want ellipses, the file format is incomplete > and should be changed. > > Why not just give a warning if width and height is not equal, saying > that we don't really support ellipses for the moment, and be done with > it. > I could, I suppose, but as you mentioned in another post, there are muddled physical units. As that is what I am trying to fix, I need to make changes anyway. It would be nice if we could at least support the featureset of our file format, while I'm at it. -- Andrew Poelstra Email: asp11 at sfu.ca OR apoelstra at wpsoftware.net Web: http://www.wpsoftware.net/andrew/ _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
