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[Marco Hess <marco.hess@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The attached patch is a minor fix to the Protel gerber file name 
extensions to assign
a more specific extension to internal Cu layers as well as the Edge_Cuts 
layer
as described here on the Altium site:

http://techdocs.altium.com/display/ADRR/WorkspaceManager_Dlg-GerberSetup_Form((Gerber+Setup))_AD

Regards,

Marco

diff --git a/pcbnew/pcbplot.cpp b/pcbnew/pcbplot.cpp
index 7d5527e..4b8f89e 100644
--- a/pcbnew/pcbplot.cpp
+++ b/pcbnew/pcbplot.cpp
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ const wxString GetGerberExtension( LAYER_NUM aLayer )
             return wxT( "gbl" );
         else
         {
-            return wxT( "gbr" );
+            return wxString::Format( wxT( "g%d" ), aLayer+1 );
         }
     }
     else
@@ -74,11 +74,12 @@ const wxString GetGerberExtension( LAYER_NUM aLayer )
         case B_Mask:        return wxT( "gbs" );
         case F_Mask:        return wxT( "gts" );

+        case Edge_Cuts:     return wxT( "gm1" );
+
         case Dwgs_User:
         case Cmts_User:
         case Eco1_User:
         case Eco2_User:
-        case Edge_Cuts:
         default:            return wxT( "gbr" );
         }
     }