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Re: PCB design software with more control over route shapes?
« Reply #25 on: September 11, 2013, 04:32:01 am »
Rolled back to a 2010 release of strawberry and the example pdf files now seem to work!!!!

Just having trouble generating my own .pdf files that will work.....

@jucole - how did you process that fuzz face board into PDF, and did you get a drill file too?
 

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Re: PCB design software with more control over route shapes?
« Reply #26 on: September 11, 2013, 08:43:45 am »
@jucole - how did you process that fuzz face board into PDF, and did you get a drill file too?

In the comments of the script there is a reference to "PDFCreator 1.3.2"  so - I just installed that;   but when you do install the PDFCreator - watch out not to install the crap-ware with it! ;-)
 

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Re: PCB design software with more control over route shapes?
« Reply #27 on: September 11, 2013, 08:55:53 am »
Yep, I got PDFCreator.

But, how did you process the image of the FF board, as the one I uploaded was a raster image?
 

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Re: PCB design software with more control over route shapes?
« Reply #28 on: September 11, 2013, 09:24:16 am »
But, how did you process the image of the FF board, as the one I uploaded was a raster image?

You need to recreate your board using a vector drawing package then you just print using the PDF driver.
 

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Re: PCB design software with more control over route shapes?
« Reply #29 on: September 11, 2013, 10:03:37 am »
Cool, was just not sure if you had been able to process a raster image though pdf2 gerb, redrawn in vector, or auto traced in illustrator.... :-//
 


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