This is slightly off topic to the thread, but a few years ago, I recognized
that putting together the artwork for a reasonable dial was a major pain
with most of the common graphics software.  I put together a little Windows
program for drawing dials, which, of course, was immediately followed by the
Linux guys whining "where's mine?"

So, I did a platform-independent command line version.  I quickly realized
that what *I* wanted was to do a whole panel, so I upgraded the command line
version to do just that.  There are a few new features I'd like to add, but
it's been pretty decent to produce a number of panels.  (My approach is the
inkjet on the back side of transparency film ... maybe not as professional
as it could be, but it works for my purposes).

Anyway, the software is available free on my QSLmaker site,
http://hfradio.org/wb8rcr  The Panel stuff is hidden at the bottom of the
navbar.  Source for the command line versions is included.

Although you can run the panel program on Windows, it is not the least
little bit friendly to Windows users.  It's a command line program, and it
expects either a PostScript printer or Ghostscript.  Ghostscript is a pain
to install on Windows, but it comes by default on most Linux distros.  If
you're a purely point and click Windows user, don't bother, you're not going
to like it very much.  But if you're from the "I don't need no stinkin' GUI"
school, it's a quick and easy path to a decent panel.

72/73 de WB8RCR    http://www.qsl.net/wb8rcr
didileydadidah     QRP-L #1446 Code Warriors #35

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