Homebrew PCBs

Tony,
If you don't have the PDF tutorial, you can get it from the DipTrace site.

I like to export my Eagle Lite boards to Photoshop (or the free
Paint.net program from Washington State University and Microsoft)for
final editing, and I initially didn't see a way to do that in
DipTrace.  Then, I read the tutorial.

When you have a board ready to print, click File...Preview, and one of
the pushbuttons at the top right of the next screen that comes up is
"Save".  You can save the board image as a bitmap for use in any image
editing software.  I mention Paint.net because, like Photoshop and
other high-end programs, it allows you to work with layers.  So does
The Gimp (free, open source; Windows and Linux), but it is a bit more
involved to learn than Paint.net; it's more like Photoshop($$$$) in
it's full range of features.

By the way, there's a DipTrace Yahoo group, it's "diptr".  Lots of
great info over there.

73,
Ted KX4OM

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, Tony Harris <kg4wfx@...> wrote:
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> Hi all,
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>   a few weeks ago, someone had talked about diptrace and I
downloaded it to try before purchasing it.  I can't seem to figure out
a way to generate prints from it that I can use to expose PCB's with
(I use negative resist boards).  If anyone can tell me what I need to
do, I'd be most appreciative.  I really enjoy the software, but when
I'm doing small prototypes, I don't want to have to spend 500+ dollars
to get prototypes made (several boards I play around making are 8x10"
which cost a bit much when being made...)
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>   -Tony
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