Re: [Bug 668145] Re: Font preferences not available anymore, internal font changed

2013-10-13 Thread Lorenzo Marcantonio
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 06:04:46PM -, Daniel Santos wrote: > Hmm, while I'm not certain, we may be talking about the same thing, but > from a different standpoint. I don't see any reference in the gerber > spec to the word "raster". If you are talking about drawing straight > lines with an ape

Re: [Bug 668145] Re: Font preferences not available anymore, internal font changed

2013-10-13 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
On 10/13/2013 04:49 AM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: > http://timeguy.com/cradek/truetype > > Is this anything? > On Oct 13, 2013 2:25 AM, "Lorenzo Marcantonio" <668...@bugs.launchpad.net> > wrote: > >> On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 04:28:58AM -, Daniel Santos wrote: >>> >From a cursory examination of t

Re: [Bug 668145] Re: Font preferences not available anymore, internal font changed

2013-10-13 Thread Lorenzo Marcantonio
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 08:49:40AM -, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: > http://timeguy.com/cradek/truetype > > Is this anything? Extracting the outlines from a TT is not difficult, actually... freetype can give it to you ready to plot (FT_Outline_Decompose), you only have to mess a little with quadric

Re: [Bug 668145] Re: Font preferences not available anymore, internal font changed

2013-10-13 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
http://timeguy.com/cradek/truetype Is this anything? On Oct 13, 2013 2:25 AM, "Lorenzo Marcantonio" <668...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 04:28:58AM -, Daniel Santos wrote: > > >From a cursory examination of the Gerber spec (which I've never worked > > with before). It

Re: [Bug 668145] Re: Font preferences not available anymore, internal font changed

2013-10-13 Thread Lorenzo Marcantonio
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 04:28:58AM -, Daniel Santos wrote: > >From a cursory examination of the Gerber spec (which I've never worked > with before). It looks like the appropriate way to render an arbitrary > font from it's vector representation is to render each non-contiguous > shape of each g

Re: [Bug 668145] Re: Font preferences not available anymore, internal font changed

2013-10-11 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
On 10/11/2013 2:19 PM, Daniel Santos wrote: > Hello guys. I see that this bug is fairly old, but as a person recently > introduced to Kicad, I must tell you that the font appearance was an > immediate turn-off! I know this sounds bubble-gum, twitter-ish, gen-me > shallow, but first appearances re