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Re: potrace

 

Sorry for the offtopic... 

It's this an option to ease the import of image - only PCBs in a practical way? Some of them aren't only in jpg/bmp/png, but postscript or pdf so they provide vector information. 

On December 16, 2015 9:39:05 PM CET, Simon Wells <swel024@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>kicad seems to have a copy of the potrace code in the tree.
>potrace_version.h claims this is version 1.12
>
>the potrace website shows this changelog for 1.13 which was released on
>22/10
>
>Some critical bugs in the processing of BMP files were fixed. These
>bugs
>allowed the program to be crashed, or potentially to be abused in other
>ways, by feeding it specially crafted BMP files. Thanks to Tomasz
>Buchert
>and Agostino Sarubbo for reporting these bugs. Portability was improved
>for
>C99 and for MSVC++. Thanks to Peter Breitenlohner, Nelson Beebe, and
>Martin
>Gieseking for reporting portability issues.
>
>
>Is there any reason we have a copy of the code in the tree and are not
>just
>making this a another dependency?
>
>There are binaries for win/lin/osx on the potrace website and it is
>also
>available in brew on osx
>
>
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