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cparker [To Do List]
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 ===Post Loading Policy=== ===Post Loading Policy===
-The policy defines how to handle objects that need fonts but were not assigned one during load.+The policy defines how to handle objects that need fonts but were not assigned one during load. This is the magic that will hopefully make pcb "do the right thing" when loading older versions of pcb files.
  
-==Default Font Name== +==System Font and Default Font Name== 
-If during ​the file load,+The first (font related) thing pcb tries to do after loading all the data from a pcb file is figure out if it needs to change the current system font. If a ''​DefaultFontName''​ was specified, ​the system font is changed to this font. If we're dealing with an older file, there will be no ''​DefaultFontName''​ specified, but there still might be font data in the file (as loose symbols), and if there is, then it should be used. Symbol data gets loaded as a font in the embedded library, so 
  
 ==Text Data== ==Text Data==
geda/pcb_fonts.txt · Last modified: 2016/12/06 09:03 by cparker