Re: Caution on AP-64E EPROM Programmer

["Mark Cummings" <NOTfigjams@primus.com.au>]

> If Protel can export PostScript, you can use Ghostscript to convert
> PostScript to PBM and netpbm to convert PBM to PNG.  IIRC, you could also
> use Ghostscript to save directly to TIFF.  Ghostscript has some options
that
> let you set the resolution at which the input file is rendered...the
default
> setting is too low for anything but the simplest designs, but you can set
it
> to 600 or 1200 dpi and get something that you could print onto film for
> making boards.  (I'd think that for enabling people to have boards made
> instead of rolling their own, you'd want to provide Gerber and Excellon
> files too...I'd think Protel can do that by itself.  It's easier (and not
> much more expensive...places like Olimex and Custom PCB are dirt-cheap for
> small-quantity board production) for me to send files to a boardhouse than
> to try making a board myself, and the quality is better.)

I can't export to anything other than Protel binary, Protel text or Orcad,
and of course print to PDF. the latter option is what I have used as it
seems pretty popular, looks good in colour, and is really my only option
without scanning for now.

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anyway I have done the book and circuit finally, and they are here:

http://home.iprimus.com.au/figjams/apple2/AP-64e.PDF

http://home.iprimus.com.au/figjams/apple2/AP64Ecct.PDF

apologies for a lack of home page, havn't ever bothered to do that yet.

Mark