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Re: FYI: New format for Gerber Job file, replacing the old one.

 

Meh... sorry for the noise. It's propably too late already... you were talking about the fob file (only).

Clemens

On 2018-03-19 22:54, Clemens Koller wrote:
> 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.
>>
> 
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