PDF to Gerber file converter ?

[Dave]

I asked this once before with no usable results ..

Does anybody know of a PDF file to Gerber file converter?

Thanks!!
Dave

 

[Leon Heller]

"Dave" <felt@caltech.edu> wrote in message
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I asked this once before with no usable results ..

Does anybody know of a PDF file to Gerber file converter?

No.

Leon
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[maxfoo]

On Tue, 18 May 2004 09:58:12 -0700, Dave <felt@caltech.edu> wrote:

I asked this once before with no usable results ..

Does anybody know of a PDF file to Gerber file converter?

Thanks!!
Dave

That's like asking for a spoon to chopsticks converter. useless...








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[R.Lewis]

"Dave" <felt@caltech.edu> wrote in message
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I asked this once before with no usable results ..

Does anybody know of a PDF file to Gerber file converter?

I previously asked about a Gerber to PDF (to be able to use the gerbers in
the manuals) with no success but I am struggling to see why you would want
to make a gerber from a pdf.
I would have thought that Acrobat and its clones allowed you to do most
anything with PDF's.
..

 

[Leon Heller]

"R.Lewis" <h.lewis-not this bit-@connect-2.co.uk> wrote in message
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"Dave" <felt@caltech.edu> wrote in message
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I asked this once before with no usable results ..

Does anybody know of a PDF file to Gerber file converter?


I previously asked about a Gerber to PDF (to be able to use the gerbers in
the manuals) with no success but I am struggling to see why you would want
to make a gerber from a pdf.

I can produce PDF files corresponding to Gerber files quite easily with
Pulsonix. I simply plot the output to a file with a PS driver and convert
the Postscript files to PDF.

Leon

 

[Mostafa Kassem]

R.Lewis wrote:

"Dave" <felt@caltech.edu> wrote in message
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I asked this once before with no usable results ..

Does anybody know of a PDF file to Gerber file converter?



I previously asked about a Gerber to PDF (to be able to use the gerbers in
the manuals) with no success but I am struggling to see why you would want
to make a gerber from a pdf.
I would have thought that Acrobat and its clones allowed you to do most
anything with PDF's.
.



You can find Gerber to PDF here: http://www.swcp.com/~jchavez/gerber2pdf.html

Mostafa

 

[R.Lewis]

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R.Lewis wrote:
"Dave" <felt@caltech.edu> wrote in message
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I asked this once before with no usable results ..

Does anybody know of a PDF file to Gerber file converter?



I previously asked about a Gerber to PDF (to be able to use the gerbers
in
the manuals) with no success but I am struggling to see why you would
want
to make a gerber from a pdf.
I would have thought that Acrobat and its clones allowed you to do most
anything with PDF's.
.



You can find Gerber to PDF here:
http://www.swcp.com/~jchavez/gerber2pdf.html


Mostafa

Thanks for that I will give it a try.

Is there any way of easily converting 274D gerbers to 274X?

 

[John Strupat]

"Dave" <felt@caltech.edu> wrote in message
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I asked this once before with no usable results ..

Does anybody know of a PDF file to Gerber file converter?

Thanks!!
Dave

Hi Dave,

I'm thinking that something like CamTastic or GC-Prevue will load HPGL
plotfiles and then generate a Gerber output file.

The Adobe readers will let you print out a PDF with any Windows printer, so
if you find a HPGL plotter driver, you could output the PDF this as an HPGL
plotfile.

regards,

John

 

[Sporkman]

John Strupat wrote:

Hi Dave,

I'm thinking that something like CamTastic or GC-Prevue will load HPGL
plotfiles and then generate a Gerber output file.

The Adobe readers will let you print out a PDF with any Windows printer, so
if you find a HPGL plotter driver, you could output the PDF this as an HPGL
plotfile.

regards,

John

GC-Prevue won't do it, but maybe CAM350 or CAMCAD, as well as
CAMTastic. None are what you would call "cheap" (or even "reasonable"
for an individual who doesn't do Gerber editing for a living).