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[Clemens Koller <cko@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2018-03-19 15:44, jp charras wrote:
> I committed a change for the Gerber job file created by Pcbnew.

Commit ID: 2ff74cb

On 2018-03-19 15:44, jp charras wrote:
> Gerbview can also real the "old format", but because it is deprecated, I'll remove the code to read
> and write this old format (no more existing) in the future.

Why do you want to remove (more or less, IMO non-conflicting) working code?
I use Gerbview not only for Gerber files generated by pcbnew.

Regards,

Clemens

On 2018-03-19 15:44, jp charras wrote:
> I committed a change for the Gerber job file created by Pcbnew.
> 
> According to the last changes for the .gbrjob file format made by Ucamco, this file uses now a JSON
> syntax, and has much more info for board stackup (thickness, dielectric parameters, colors ...)
> 
> Therefore Pcbnew generates this file using the latest file format specification, and Gerbview can
> read this file to load the full set of Gerber plot files.
> 
> Gerbview can also real the "old format", but because it is deprecated, I'll remove the code to read
> and write this old format (no more existing) in the future.
> 
> Note also some of the new parameters added to this JSON file format were added after some
> suggestions from Kicad users about the old file format, some times ago.
> 
> Please, test it.
>