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Date:	Thu, 17 Oct 2013 23:57:48 -0600
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Subject:	[geda-user] pstoedit pcb and pcbfill issues
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This may not be the right place to ask, since it's really a question about
pstoedit, but I'm trying to move a scanned picture into a layout, by
autotracing it so I get the board outline and the copper areas.  Then I
export that from inkscape as an encapsulated postscript and run it through
pcbtoedit to get a pcbfile.
The issue I'm having is that pstoedit blah.eps -f pcb blah.pcb gives me a
perfectly good, usable board.  pstoedit blah.eps -f pcbfill blah.pcb gives
me an equally good, usable board, with the y axis shifted a couple of
thousand mils.  So when I import the copper, as fills (I'm copying an
ancient pcb that goes inside a Triumph Spitfire turn signal, so both the
copper and the board outline are very strange shapes) it shows up in the
pcb in an entirely different place than the board outline.
I can scoot one or the other.  But if anyone has played with this and
knows how I can force -pcbfill to retain the x and y location of the
original file, I'd love to know about it.
(my actual workaround is just importing everything as pcb and then tracing
the copper as a polygon, which works fine when I only have three huge
copper areas, but would be less fun were I copying a complex single-sided
pcb.)

Thanks for any advice.

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