Homebrew PCBs

On Saturday 09 July 2005 01:24 pm, Stefan Trethan wrote:
> On Sat, 09 Jul 2005 18:45:44 +0200, Roy J. Tellason
>
> <rtellason@...> wrote:
> > Possibly,  I haven't tried it.  What use would postscript be?
>
> well, you can open it with other graphics software, sometimes ;-)
> maybe gimp.

Hmm.  I never thought about using that program to open postscript files,  but 
it works...

> >> If all else falis install a postscript printer and divert it to file.
> >
> > I have a postscript printer,  it just isn't in use at the present time.
>
> You don't need the physical printer, you just tell the PC you got one and
> divert the output not to lpt1 or so but a file instead. I don't remember
> how this is done with unix but i remember it is fairly easy. Under windows
> you just click print to file. But it only gives you a postscript file again.
> Still much better than scanned.

Probably would work,  yeah.

> Is there still no better PDF reader for unix? the acrobat reader has the
> select text/image function for ages.

There are a couple of them here,  and I did get the adobe product but haven't 
installed it yet,  figuring that most of what I've got worked fine.  There 
are a small number of datasheets that the current software won't open,  so 
maybe one of these days I'll get around to installing that and seeing if it 
deals with them or assume that if it won't the files really are corrupted...