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Message #14393
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.
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>
> 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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