Homebrew PCBs

Myc,

I realise this ias blasphemy for EAGLE users, but take a look at DIPTRACE,
another free pcb program.There is a direct printout of the board, so you do
not have to jump through hoops.

Diptrace also includes a panelization oo printouts and well as the ability
to import EAGLE files.

Myc
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 5:35 PM, martin_schoenegg <Martin.Schoenegg@...>
wrote:

>   Matthew Smith <matt@...> wrote:
> > I create my layouts in Eagle. When I create the PostScript file
> in the
> > CAM processor, I keep changing the X/Y offsets of each design so
> that I
> > can fill a whole sheet of paper. As my printer is actually a PCL
> type
> > rather than PostScript, I convert PostScript to PDF and print the
> > designs using Acrobat Reader, feeding the same sheet of paper back
> in
> > each time.
>
> This may Produce a lot of hassle. Try out Ghostscript (and may be
> ghostview as GUI) and you will have a lot more fun. I don't know the
> postprocessing of eagle. Very often the created postscript files are
> well structured and ascii readable texts. Just take a few minutes to
> study the header. Mostly there are a few commands defined in the
> prologue. Windows postscript driver defines a lot of unused commands
> here;-) you may keep the file easier to analyse if you go to the
> settings and use there postscript level 2 and no compression...
>
> > I then print all the PDFs again onto the Laserstar film.
> > Note - after about the third pass through the printer, the
> Laserstar
> > film starts to curl a little;
>
> You only have to find the "showpage" commands, remove them (or
> comment them off, also the headers and merge them by hand by copying
> the relevant rows together after the first prologue. Ghostview will
> help you to preview the result on the monitor. You don't have to
> create pdf or anything other. Print your postscript using ghostscript
> on your printer will do the best.
>
> > The one thing that would make my process easier is if I had a tool
> that
> > could merge my PostScript or PDF files. Tried it using an art
> package
> > (the Gimp), without success. I also tried a bit of raw PostScript
> > programming a year or so back, but that just gave me a headache ;-)
>
> I guess the only problem was the wrong literature or a too high
> sophisticated printerdriver. postscript is a very powerful and
> amazing programming language and every hour you spend with it is
> worthful. I managed a lot of workaround with very basic knowledge of
> this language.
>
> Good luck
>
> Martin
>
> 
>


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