John-Philip Taylor

Results 11 issues of John-Philip Taylor

Issue: #10 A pre-emptive pull-request in order to obtain email-notifications on commits to this branch.

enhancement

At the moment, the only documentation is the "help" produced when running the application without any command-line options. It would be useful to have more comprehensive Markdown-based documentation in the...

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good first issue

Relates to issue #17 -- The current version does not implement the new Gerber file format features. - [ ] Step and Repeat (SR) -- closing with M02 is deprecated....

enhancement

The [Ucamco test files](https://www.ucamco.com/en/file-formats/gerber/downloads) do not render correctly for all examples. Fix: - [x] SMD_prim_20 - [x] SMD_prim_21 - [x] sample_macro - [ ] 4-6-4_Nested_Blocks - [ ] 4-11-6_Block_with_different_orientations

bug

The code-base is largely platform independent, but there are still a few Win32 specific API calls. This enhancement entails using `#ifdef` ... `#else` ... `#endif` blocks to turn the currently...

good first issue

Add the ability to specify a blend function between layers, as well as performing boolean operations on said layers. One use case would be to subtract the solder mask layer...

enhancement

Convert the board outline to an area. Inner routing areas should be drawn as holes. This enhancement is dependent on issue #1 having been sorted out. Also refer to [this...

enhancement

Put combined layers in a sub-branch in the bookmark tree. The tree root is the first layer and the children are the others.

enhancement

Make use of the PDF feature where one can show and hide layers on a single page. See Optional Content Groups (Section 4.10 version 1.5 onwards) in the [PDF Reference](https://www.adobe.com/devnet/pdf/pdf_reference_archive.html)

enhancement

Clone of [this issue](https://sourceforge.net/p/gerber2pdf/discussion/general/thread/7ca52ef2/) on SourceForge, reproduced here for convenience. > The Gerber file format assumes an imaging model where the result can be drawn and erased in so-called "dark"...

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