putting copyright symbol in PCB

All vector fonts are implicitly scalable independently in X and Y, and

hence aspect ratio. Their only problem comes when trying to sample them

into a raster at small sizes, so the EAGLE vector font should be able to

easily adjust aspect ratio, if they would permit it.

The Hershey font you are thinking of is Roman Simplex, the same vector

font that used to be included with Windows 95,98, etc.

I don't dislike the EAGLE vector font, but yeah, could be a little narrower.

I have them all, in .fnt format even, if anyone wants....

Oliver Betz schrieb:

Please note that ulrimately when generating production output,

like Gerber files, for instance, you might end up losing those

characters again, because they are not supported by Gerber.

 

Not if they were existent in the vector font.

 

However I do agree that the expense of integrating 8 bit fonts is not

reasonably related to its advantages.

 

one problem is that you had to choose one character set and there will

be customers wanting another one... You need UTF8 these days if you

want to provide more than 7 bit.

I first had written something like this, too - but then reduced it to

the simple statement about expense/advantage ratio...

I would rather like hershey font characters for the lower 7 bits...

 

Would be nicer than the current font, although I don't care much about

font cosmetics on boards and schematics.

 

The most important criterion for me is to get the smallest possible

text for a given minimum trace width. The Eagle font with 15% ratio

did a good job regarding this.

 

Do you think that there are better suited Hershey fonts?

Hershey created many fonts. The one I think of is much like

Helvetica/Arial, but rather narrow. I don't know its name, however... I

would have to look up my CP/M archives; I once had a program there that

used these fonts for creating very nice looking printouts - somehow

similar to the TeX method.

Most of the time, the EAGLE vector font simply is too wide, it wastes

space that I don't have on the boards.

Tilmann

Tilmann Reh wrote:

Please note that ulrimately when generating production output,

like Gerber files, for instance, you might end up losing those

characters again, because they are not supported by Gerber.

 

Not if they were existent in the vector font.

 

However I do agree that the expense of integrating 8 bit fonts is not

reasonably related to its advantages.

one problem is that you had to choose one character set and there will

be customers wanting another one... You need UTF8 these days if you

want to provide more than 7 bit.

I would rather like hershey font characters for the lower 7 bits...

Would be nicer than the current font, although I don't care much about

font cosmetics on boards and schematics.

The most important criterion for me is to get the smallest possible

text for a given minimum trace width. The Eagle font with 15% ratio

did a good job regarding this.

Do you think that there are better suited Hershey fonts?

Oliver

Klaus Schmidinger schrieb:

Please note that ulrimately when generating production output,

like Gerber files, for instance, you might end up losing those

characters again, because they are not supported by Gerber.

Not if they were existent in the vector font.

However I do agree that the expense of integrating 8 bit fonts is not

reasonably related to its advantages.

I would rather like hershey font characters for the lower 7 bits...

Using only 7bit ASCII characters saves you a lot of trouble

In the current situation: yes.

Tilmann

On 11/25/09 20:01, dane wrote:

Draw a bitmap (add your logo as well) and import it using one of the

ulp's

that is coming with Eagle.

Why not simply draw an arc and a circle?

 

I can do both of these, however it is a minor nusiance to have to group all

of the pieces when I wish to move it somewhere else.   I was hoping Eagle

would support high-order ASCII characters for ease-of-use, that's all.

Please note that ulrimately when generating production output,

like Gerber files, for instance, you might end up losing those

characters again, because they are not supported by Gerber.

Using only 7bit ASCII characters saves you a lot of trouble

Klaus Schmidinger

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dane wrote:

Draw a bitmap (add your logo as well) and import it using one of the

ulp's

that is coming with Eagle.

Why not simply draw an arc and a circle?

 

I can do both of these, however it is a minor nusiance to have to group all

of the pieces when I wish to move it somewhere else.   I was hoping Eagle

would support high-order ASCII characters for ease-of-use, that's all.

 

thanks,

...dane

 

 

It could be made with a no pin lib part with different sizes as a

different package. To keep it all together add the year and company info

then it is all one item when editing. I have not used the Ver 5's new

attributes but a lib part with the circle C with year and company

attribute would be a nice addition to anybodies lib.

Paul R.

Draw a bitmap (add your logo as well) and import it using one of the

ulp's

that is coming with Eagle.

 

Why not simply draw an arc and a circle?

I can do both of these, however it is a minor nusiance to have to group all

of the pieces when I wish to move it somewhere else.   I was hoping Eagle

would support high-order ASCII characters for ease-of-use, that's all.

thanks,

..dane

On 11/24/09 09:47, Morten Leikvoll wrote:

"dane" <dane.ulp@lewisinnovative.com> wrote in message

news:hee8jt$3kh$1@cheetah.cadsoft.de...

Is there a more inherent internal mechanism to support high-order ascii

characters such as the copyright symbol?

 

Draw a bitmap (add your logo as well) and import it using one of the ulp's

that is coming with Eagle.

Why not simply draw an arc and a circle?

Klaus Schmidinger

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_______________________________________________________________

Klaus Schmidinger                       Phone: +49-8635-6989-10

CadSoft Computer GmbH                   Fax:   +49-8635-6989-40

Pleidolfweg 15                          Email:   kls@cadsoft.de

D-84568 Pleiskirchen, Germany           URL:     www.cadsoft.de

_______________________________________________________________

"dane" <dane.ulp@lewisinnovative.com> wrote in message

news:hee8jt$3kh$1@cheetah.cadsoft.de...

Is there a more inherent internal mechanism to support high-order ascii

characters such as the copyright symbol?

Draw a bitmap (add your logo as well) and import it using one of the ulp's

that is coming with Eagle.

With vector font (used for production in combination with the cam-processor)

it is not possible to use ascii > 127. This is written somwhere in the

manual

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