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[Cirilo Bernardo <cirilo_bernardo@xxxxxxxxx>]

I received a request for a feature some months ago.  The idea is to provide
an underlay image to help people duplicate existing board designs, for example
when duplicating old circuits to refurbish a device or to recreate the PCB
artwork when all you have are old gerber files or perhaps printouts of the
gerber images, or cutouts from electronics hobbyist magazines.

I believe this can be implemented by:

1. adding a checkbox to the bitmap tool to write to an 'Underlay' layer
instead of to F.SilkS

2. reserving one of the spare layers as 'Underlay'. This layer will be the
first rendered and will never be plotted or printed.

Any comments/suggestions/objections?

- Cirilo