Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: Homebrew PCBs

re. negative images - If you can output gerbers, you can get almost
any manipulation of the impage you want via the various gerber
utils. I wouldn't bother with a layout package that cant do that.

I am an Eagle user, Its powerful, I like it and have gotten used to
the interface but it is ∗very∗ non-intuitive, especially if you are
used to using Windows Software. Every command is a little different
(some do right click, some dont, for example) and some operations are
a lot more complex than they need to be (move multiple objects
and "clip board" operations, for examples). But the free package is
quite capable and worth spending the time to learn.

Phil