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Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: PCB design software

2003-05-12 by Larry Battraw

On Mon, 2003-05-12 at 13:18, Stefan Trethan wrote:
> i also tried pstoedit.
> same results.
>
> the reason for plotting to ps with correct holes is maybe that it is
> done only b/w.
> so the software has no excuse like "oh, lets try another color" and
> the programmers had to get it right.
>
> ((( question: ps is vector or raster? )))
>
> regards
> stefan
>

It's vector, although it's really a programming language as well.
Programs like Ghostscript (or your printer) render the resulting vectors
for raster output.

Larry

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