Hello all,

I am having to measure from datum many points on a scanned image. It's an
old printed circuit board that I have to reverse engineer into Gerber data
for manufacturing. I need to locate the drill/pad locations before I lay
down the circuits.

What I am doing now is measuring each pad/drill location from datum, then
hand writing that x-y dimension down, then typing the x-y dimension into CAM
by hand. Heck I'd even settle for a cut and paste of the dimension from the
display but it won't do that.

Is there anyway that Photoshop can write an ASCII file of these coordinates
on command, or any other way to get these locations into an ASCII file which
the CAM program will read without having to write down and hand type in
hundreds of entries?

Thanks in advance

Hi
I used to generate (x,y) coordinates from a scanned image using a
freeware program called DigiGraph; a quick Yahoo! search shows the
program to still be available, for $25. It was very easy to use-- just
calibrate your axes, then everytime you click the mouse, you get an
(x,y) coordinate pair in your graph coordinates (not screen
coordinates). Worked great for me.

I too would be interested if there is a way to coax PhotoShop into
saving (x,y) coordinates in a test file.

---Garywed

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