21 Nov
2002
21 Nov
'02
3:33 p.m.
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Jim Kearney wrote:
Plus its pretty hard to extract the drill info from a 'vectorized' raster
plot...
Peter Wallace
From:
"Dwight K. Elvey" <dwightk.elvey(a)amd.com>
Gerber format is not all that complicated. It seems that someone
No, it's not. It doesn't seem like there's an off-the-shelf way to go from
raster (PDF or TIFF) to vector (Gerber), though, or at least nothing jumps
out from Google. In principle it would be easy to load a raster and write
it out as a set of lines in Gerber format.
Actually I have a vague recollection that one of the board houses charged
extra for "very large Gerber files caused by rasterized plots".