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Re: old pcbnew file format in bitmap2component tool

 

----- Original Message -----

> From: Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: 
> Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2014 5:23 AM
> Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] old pcbnew file format in bitmap2component tool
> 
> On 08/19/2014 05:00 AM, Cirilo Bernardo wrote:
> 
>>  While working on the bitmap2component tool to add support for
>>  placing bitmaps onto the planned Underlay 1/2 layers I noticed
>>  that the deprecated *.emp export format is still supported by
>>  the tool. If there are no objections I'll remove that option
>>  as part of my work on this feature. Given the way KiCad and
>>  pcbnew in particular has worked for almost a year and the more
>>  recent introduction of more layers, I don't see a need to
>>  maintain the ability to import images to the older format.
> 
> 
> No reason to remain emp-athic to that format.
> 
> 

Thanks Dick, I'll make the feature disappear. I'll even do that before I
go on to make the other changes I want.

- Cirilo



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