gerber to .doc format

[R.Lewis]

How do I easily get a gerber (or HPGL) plot into word?

I am away from the office and have no Viewmate to hand - are there any
freebies to download to do the task?

Must be finished by monday.

Help.

Ta

 

[Boris Mohar]

On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 00:22:15 -0000, "R.Lewis" <h.lewis@connect-2.co.uk>
wrote:

How do I easily get a gerber (or HPGL) plot into word?

I am away from the office and have no Viewmate to hand - are there any
freebies to download to do the task?

Must be finished by monday.

Help.

Ta

Print to PDF If you can. Than use:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/EM010948541033.aspx

There are other converters



Regards,

Boris Mohar

Got Knock? - see:
Viatrack Printed Circuit Designs (among other things) http://www.viatrack.ca

void _-void-_ in the obvious place

 

[Jim Thompson]

On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 19:41:05 -0500, Boris Mohar
<borism_-void-_@sympatico.ca> wrote:

On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 00:22:15 -0000, "R.Lewis" <h.lewis@connect-2.co.uk
wrote:

How do I easily get a gerber (or HPGL) plot into word?

I am away from the office and have no Viewmate to hand - are there any
freebies to download to do the task?

Must be finished by monday.

Help.

Ta

Print to PDF If you can. Than use:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/EM010948541033.aspx

There are other converters



Regards,

Boris Mohar

Got Knock? - see:
Viatrack Printed Circuit Designs (among other things) http://www.viatrack.ca

void _-void-_ in the obvious place

Doesn't Word directly accept hpgl?

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[qrk]

On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 00:22:15 -0000, "R.Lewis"
<h.lewis@connect-2.co.uk> wrote:

How do I easily get a gerber (or HPGL) plot into word?

I am away from the office and have no Viewmate to hand - are there any
freebies to download to do the task?

Must be finished by monday.

http://bronzware.com/GerbMagic/
Looks like you can convert from Gerber to TIFF or BMP. If you need to
change image format (like BMP to GIF) and/or size, use NCONVERT.

Mark

 

[Matthew Kendall]

"R.Lewis" <h.lewis@connect-2.co.uk> wrote

How do I easily get a gerber (or HPGL) plot into word?

gerb2tif. Open-source, free (GPL), command-line utility.
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~eseychell/gerb2tif.html
Claims to be "beta", but has worked well for me.

 

[Leon Heller]

"R.Lewis" <h.lewis@connect-2.co.uk> wrote in message
news:389u0iF5kce8bU1@individual.net...

How do I easily get a gerber (or HPGL) plot into word?

I am away from the office and have no Viewmate to hand - are there any
freebies to download to do the task?

Must be finished by monday.

Download GC-Prevue, import the Gerbers, save the screen to the Clipboard and
edit with Paint or whatever, then save as a bitmap.

Leon

 

[Jamie]

R.Lewis wrote:

How do I easily get a gerber (or HPGL) plot into word?

I am away from the office and have no Viewmate to hand - are there any
freebies to download to do the task?

Must be finished by monday.

Help.

Ta


well if your a programmer here you go.

http://nexp.cs.pdx.edu/twiki-gerber/pub/Gerber/GerberFiles/rs274xrevd_e.pdf

 

[R.Lewis]

"Jamie" <jamie_5_not_valid_after_5_Please@charter.net> wrote in message
news:Lh1Ud.8606$CV2.2977@fe06.lga...

R.Lewis wrote:
How do I easily get a gerber (or HPGL) plot into word?

I am away from the office and have no Viewmate to hand - are there any
freebies to download to do the task?

Must be finished by monday.

Help.

Ta


well if your a programmer here you go.

http://nexp.cs.pdx.edu/twiki-gerber/pub/Gerber/GerberFiles/rs274xrevd_e.pdf

Thanks to all for the suggestions.
I isn't going to be finished by monay so the immediate problem disappears.
For the record though I would like to know if there is any freebie 274D to
274X conversions available to liven up some old designs rather than running
them thro' Viewmate et al back at the shop.

 

[Peter Bennett]

On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 12:29:25 -0000, "R.Lewis"
<h.lewis@connect-2.co.uk> wrote:

Thanks to all for the suggestions.
I isn't going to be finished by monay so the immediate problem disappears.
For the record though I would like to know if there is any freebie 274D to
274X conversions available to liven up some old designs rather than running
them thro' Viewmate et al back at the shop.

The primary (perhaps only) difference between 274D and 274X is that
the X version includes the aperture data, while the older D format
required a separate aperture file. I would expect that most board
shops can still handle the separate aperture file.

It should be a fairly simple matter to write a perl script to merge
the aperture data into a gerber file.


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[R.Lewis]

"Peter Bennett" <peterbb@somewhere.invalid> wrote in message
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On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 12:29:25 -0000, "R.Lewis"
h.lewis@connect-2.co.uk> wrote:


Thanks to all for the suggestions.
I isn't going to be finished by monay so the immediate problem
disappears.
For the record though I would like to know if there is any freebie 274D
to
274X conversions available to liven up some old designs rather than
running
them thro' Viewmate et al back at the shop.


The primary (perhaps only) difference between 274D and 274X is that
the X version includes the aperture data, while the older D format
required a separate aperture file. I would expect that most board
shops can still handle the separate aperture file.

It should be a fairly simple matter to write a perl script to merge
the aperture data into a gerber file.


--
Peter Bennett, VE7CEI
peterbb4 (at) interchange.ubc.ca
new newsgroup users info : http://vancouver-webpages.com/nnq
GPS and NMEA info: http://vancouver-webpages.com/peter
Vancouver Power Squadron: http://vancouver.powersquadron.ca

Indeed you are correct in that I have never encountered anywhere that could
not handle both D & X gerbers.

What would need to be done to put the apertures into the -D ?
The -D & -X gerbers are both ASCII files - surely it is not just cutting and
pasting the apertures into the -D: things are *never* that straightforward..
(As we move inexorably toward ODB++ and IDF formats my old 274-D's will
eventually be obsolete)

 

[Peter Bennett]

On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 19:19:00 -0000, "R.Lewis"
<h.lewis@connect-2.co.uk> wrote:

"Peter Bennett" <peterbb@somewhere.invalid> wrote in message
news:bh44219n7idnc9e5jblqbidprgko0v80h4@news.supernews.com...


The primary (perhaps only) difference between 274D and 274X is that
the X version includes the aperture data, while the older D format
required a separate aperture file. I would expect that most board
shops can still handle the separate aperture file.

It should be a fairly simple matter to write a perl script to merge
the aperture data into a gerber file.

Indeed you are correct in that I have never encountered anywhere that could
not handle both D & X gerbers.

What would need to be done to put the apertures into the -D ?
The -D & -X gerbers are both ASCII files - surely it is not just cutting and
pasting the apertures into the -D: things are *never* that straightforward..
(As we move inexorably toward ODB++ and IDF formats my old 274-D's will
eventually be obsolete)

Aperture files come in many formats - I expect that originally there
was no need for them to be machine-readable. The original Gerber
photoplotters apparently used something resembling a slide projector
as the print head. An operator would read the customer's aperture
file, and load appropriate "slides" in the slide projector. To avoid
extra costs and delays, the customer had to select apertures that the
plotting company had in stock. (and the plotters could only handle 12
or 24 apertures, if I recall correctly.)

Nowdays, the plotters and associated software can generate any
aperture desired on the fly.

To produce the necessary D->X translation software, you'd have to look
at your aperture files, and at the aperture section of a 274X file,
and determine how to convert one to the other.



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Peter Bennett, VE7CEI
peterbb4 (at) interchange.ubc.ca
new newsgroup users info : http://vancouver-webpages.com/nnq
GPS and NMEA info: http://vancouver-webpages.com/peter
Vancouver Power Squadron: http://vancouver.powersquadron.ca