> Surely there must be some catalogue of footprints? I was unable
> to find such a thing. By catalogue, I mean some form of electronic
> document showing the pads and dimensions, not necessarily EDIF
> files and especially not pad artwork stored in proprietary layout
> tools.

The gEDA suite includes the various pad layouts and rather than some
arcane format, as a FOSS tool, the formats are open, and happen to be
text, so with a little scripting you could have them in any form you want.
 heck, you wouldn't even need to actually install the tools, just look at
the files.  Yeah, they aren't real pretty, basically lists of the pad
coordinates, but that is what you need.  Tedious, maybe, but not as
tedious as, say, some PDF document where you would have to re-type
everything.

--McD


--=20
http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive
View/change your membership options at
http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist
.