Homebrew PCBs

On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 23:37:20 -0400, you wrote:

>Not too long ago I looked at gEDA PCB but . . . it's another operating 
>system (LINUX) to learn and another windowing system (X11) to learn, in 
>addition to learning gEDA PCB itself. Seemed a daunting task and so I 
>
I use gEDA gschem on Linux for the schematic and then FreePCB on
WinDoz for the PCB. 

IIRC you have to manually change the first line of the gschem netlist
to "*PADS-PCB*" (without the quotes) for FreePCB to recognize it. I
don't use netlists as I haven't synched a few of the gschem and
FreePCB symbols.
href="http://www.freepcb.com/"

You are probably going to have to create a LOT of symbols no matter
which layout package you get.