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[Marco Hess <marco.hess@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Good question. Did not try that. Is a width of 0 allowed?

On 30-Jun-15 18:14, Nick Østergaard wrote:
> Why does the polygon even have a width? Can't it just be zero?
>
> Den 30/06/2015 03.04 skrev "Marco Hess" <marco.hess@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:marco.hess@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>:
>
>     Minor patch to reduce the polygon line width used the
>     bitmap2component import. The existing 0.1 mm linewidth reduces the
>     accuracy of the imported bitmap outline. As it is a filled polygon
>     anyway, the line width can be quite small and gives
>     beter looking results this way.
>
>     diff --git a/bitmap2component/bitmap2component.cpp
>     b/bitmap2component/bitmap2component.cpp
>     index db11585..6717e0b 100644
>     --- a/bitmap2component/bitmap2component.cpp
>     +++ b/bitmap2component/bitmap2component.cpp
>     @@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ void BITMAPCONV_INFO::OuputOnePolygon(
>     KPolygon & aPolygon, const char * aBrdLay
>
>          case PCBNEW_KICAD_MOD:
>          {
>     -        double width = 0.1;
>     +        double width = 0.0001;
>              fprintf( m_Outfile, "  (fp_poly (pts" );
>
>              jj = 0;
>
>
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