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Re: [Bug 1337402] Re: pcbnew text cordinate change cause incompatibility with old pcbnew created file

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From: Lorenzo Marcantonio <l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2014 14:54:32 +0200
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On Fri, Jul 04, 2014 at 12:35:09PM -0000, Nick Østergaard wrote:
> This was changed recently, I can't find the commit at the moment, but I
> think it was in the late december 2013 or spring 2014. It was a commit
> by Jean Pierre.
> 
> It is the anchor point that has changed. I am not sure any efforts has
> been made to perform a proper read, becuase the fileformat do not have
> proper versioning indicators.
> 
> The fix is to only use newer kicad and manually fix the offset.

IIRC it's the vertical alignment point for multiline text which changed
due some bug irregularity... I don't know exactly the reason but I had
to move down a lot of text at the time:D

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