Ribbon Controller Again

[Doug Tymofichuk]

Hello Ron,

You are not going to believe this, but I draw my schematics 
with Windoze Paint, the crappy bmp editor that comes with 
Windoze. As I do not use schematics to produce pcb designs 
on my computer, I have no need for anything fancy to 
download netlists, gerber files or what have you. The 
schematic drawing programs that I have tried are simply 
more effort than it is worth for me to learn to use them, 
and they are not any faster than what I am doing now. So I 
just copy and paste from a set of symbols I have made up, 
with complete flexibility and, as it is such a basic 
program, it is about as fast as one can get. Plus you can 
custom design any symbol that you like with ease, or copy 
symbols that you like from other schematics.

If I need to do anything fancy with image manipulation, I 
use Paint Shop Pro. (Great program, buy the registered 
version!) (If you're stuck with a windoze pc that is.)

I imagine that there are equivalent bmp editor programs for 
other platforms.

Hope this helps!

Happy New Year to everyone!

Doug.

On Thu, 30 Dec 1999 21:43:01 -0800 Ron Yost 
<musik at tcsn.net> wrote:

> Hi there!
> 
> Congrats on your controller!  Looks like a nice design.
> 
> If you wouldn't mind, what program do you guys use to
> draw such tidy schematics?  I need it!  :-)
> 
> Thanks, and Happy New Year from Paso Robles, Calif.
> 
> ~Ron Yost
> 

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Doug Tymofichuk
dougt at cancerboard.ab.ca