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[Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Nick, I will check it out soon.

On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 5:44 PM, Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi, I also created a bug to track this on https://bugs.launchpad.net/
> kicad/+bug/1730249
>
> 2017-11-05 23:38 GMT+01:00 Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
>> Hi Jon
>>
>> Thakn you for your work. I finally got time to just play around a bit
>> more in gerbview with GAL :)
>>
>> I just tested a random gerber file I got from somewhere unknown, but it
>> seems there is a slight quick when switching back to GAL from legacy. The
>> test file is attached along with some screenshots image.
>>
>> At some zoom levels some pads dissapear. With this particular file it
>> seems to be the thermal pads of the SOIC8 packages. In one instance I also
>> saw they turn blue like the layer color for graphic layer 2 presumably.
>> Also the pads can't really be selected properly. It seems like gerbview
>> thinks those pads are the same... See the clarification menu.
>>
>> Application: gerbview
>> Version: (2017-11-05 <20%2017%2011%2005> revision 1959af1ad)-master,
>> debug build
>> Libraries:
>>     wxWidgets 3.0.3
>>     libcurl/7.56.0 OpenSSL/1.1.0f zlib/1.2.11 libpsl/0.18.0
>> (+libicu/59.1) libssh2/1.8.0 nghttp2/1.23.1
>> Platform: Linux 4.13.7-1-ARCH x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK
>> Build Info:
>>     wxWidgets: 3.0.3 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8) GTK+ 2.24
>>     Boost: 1.65.1
>>     Curl: 7.56.0
>>     Compiler: GCC 7.2.0 with C++ ABI 1011
>>
>> Build settings:
>>     USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
>>     USE_WX_OVERLAY=OFF
>>     KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
>>     KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
>>     KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
>>     KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
>>     BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
>>     KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
>>     KICAD_SPICE=ON
>>
>>
>> 2017-09-27 <20%2017%2009%2027> 5:36 GMT+02:00 Jon Evans <
>> jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>
>>> Thanks Oliver!  I have to admit, part of why I took on this project was
>>> to learn about the GAL things so that I can be of assistance for the
>>> eeschema port :-)
>>> I definitely plan to help with that, but I have some other things to
>>> work on in the short term (and want to make sure everything is working well
>>> for V5 release).
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Jon
>>>
>>> On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 10:56 PM, Oliver Walters <
>>> oliver.henry.walters@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Jon,
>>>>
>>>> The GAL gerber viewer works a treat! It's so fast now!
>>>>
>>>> Can we expect the same treatment to eeschema? ;)
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for your work!
>>>>
>>>>
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