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[Lorenzo Marcantonio <l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The idea is to have more legible net names on pads and tracks when using
light colours (it can happen using the net highlighting, as shown).

It works this way: if the pad/track is dark it uses white text bordered
black, otherwise it's black text with a white border.

The border effect is simply done using a smaller pen width. Of course
sufficiently small text can't use the border (look the net name in the
0603 pads);

Issues:
- It draws the text twice (no performance problem even with a lowly
  atom, but who knows)

- Fringing at some zoom levels (no idea on how to fix it, but it isn't
  too bad); look at the big coil pad.

- The 'black' is not always opaque since the board is not drawn in
  layers but by entity (it's nitpicking...)

Any idea/comment?

-- 
Lorenzo Marcantonio
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