4 gEDA - GPL Electronic Design Automation
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9 (This software is ALPHA)
11 Gerber Viewer (gerbv) is a viewer for Gerber files. Gerber files
12 are generated from PCB CAD system and sent to PCB manufacturers
13 as basis for the manufacturing process.
15 The different layers of the PCB are separated into different files.
16 gerbv can load all files at the same time, though it can not show
17 them at the same time. You have to browse through the different layers
18 with the radio buttons on the right side.
23 gerbv is dependent on a couple of different external libraries:
24 * GTK+, the graphical toolkit available from http://www.gtk.org/
25 * GdkPixbuf (default but not necessary), extracts data from GDK pixbufs.
26 * libpng (default but not necessary), saves extracted pixbufs to PNG.
27 * Guile (optional), an embeddable Scheme interpretator. Guile is available
28 from http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/guile.html
29 * getopt_long from the GNU project. gerbv can do without getopt_long
30 long options to the program will hence not be available.
32 gerbv is basically known to compile on all system which the above
33 mentioned libraries compile on, basically all flavors of *ix. It
34 has been tested on Linux (2.2.*, 2.4.*), NetBSD (1.4.*, 1.5.*), Solaris
40 gerbv supports zooming with scroll wheel. To be able to use scroll
41 wheel in XFree86 3.x you have to edit XF86Config and add the line:
43 in the Section "Pointer".
45 To use scrool wheel in XFree86 4.x you have to add the line:
46 Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
47 under the input device describing your mouse.
52 gerbv and all associated files is placed under the GNU Public
53 License (GPL) version 2.0. See the toplevel COPYING file for
56 Programs and associated files are:
57 Copyright 2001, 2002 by Stefan Petersen and the respective
58 original authors (which are listed on the respective files)
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84 Many thanks to the SEUL project for hosting gEDA!
91 E-mail: spe at stacken.kth.se
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