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$NetBSD: patch-ab,v 1.1 2004/03/21 23:40:56 dmcmahill Exp $
--- main.c.orig Sun Feb 23 02:34:32 1997
+++ main.c
@@ -203,164 +203,164 @@ void help_text(void)
fl_set_browser_fontsize(fdui_help->help_browse,FL_MEDIUM_SIZE);
fl_set_browser_fontstyle(fdui_help->help_browse,4);
fl_addto_browser(fdui_help->help_browse,
-"
-XCHIPLOGO
-
- Xchiplogo is an X interface for chiplogo.
-
-FOR THOSE WHO DO NOT WANT TO WAIT ANY MORE
-
- 1- open the input file (which should be in the PBM ascii,
- B&W format). You can use the input file browser. If you
- do not have any input file you can 'Launch XV' to grab some-
- thing from the screen and then save it into a file. Remember
- that after you generate the input file using XV, you should
- load it in.
-
- 2- Press the 'Generate Output'. If you do not have any spec-
- ific name for the outpu file in mind, xchiplogo will use
- 'logo.mag' or 'logo.cif' instead.
-
- 3- Your file is ready. You can have a look at it using your
- favorite layout editor.
-
- 4- If you want to partially correct some of the design rule
- errors, use the options in the 'Partial Error Correction' to
- reduce the number of errors. Note that every time that you
- change the parameters, the 'Generate Output' should be
- pressed to generate the new layout.
-
-AND THE REST OF THE STORY
-
- Xchiplogo reads an ascii bitmap file, and converts it into a
- magic or cif file. It is a handy program for creating logos
- of text or graphics for putting on VLSI chips. At the
- moment it accepts the B&W dithered format of XV as the
- input. It has got quite a few options for resizing and get-
- ting rid of many design rule errors that can be found in the
- bitmap file. It has a smoothing, before and after an error
- correction step. The error correction step is pretty simple
- ,don't expect miracles, but it works quite fine and spe-
- cially for text gives a reasonable output.
-
- I wrote this program when I saw my friends sitting for hours
- to write their name; in a font that we call mikhi in per-
- sian 'nail-font'. I have also seen many comercial layout
- editors which have tried to implement a simple text-logo
- generation, which all are very limited and inflexible. So I
- started Xchiplogo. The input to chiplogo is ascii bitmap.It
- really doesn't matter what program has generated the bitmap,
- as long as there are two digits at the begining of the file
- which tell the size of the bitmap in pixels, and then the
- sequence of the ones and zeros.
-
- Although the output files may seem a bit big, if you use
- magic after generating the file, magic reduces the size by a
- factor of more than 10!!!. It is simply because each black
- pixel in the input file becomes a box in the output magic
- file. Magic merges the boxes so that they conform to its
- corner stitch style. I have found magic to be the best
- package for editing the design rule errors of the generated
- layouts. With other layout editors you may lose your pati-
- ence.
-
-OPTIONS, KEYS, and PARAMETERS
-
- CIF layer name
- The cif layer that is to be used for the logo. The
- default is CPG (poly).
-
- Micron/Lambda
- This parameter tells the scaling factor for a CIF format.
- For a 2 micron technology it is 50 (the default). For a
- 0.8 micron it should be set to 20, and so on.
-
- Magic layer name
- The magic layer name that is to be used for the logo. The
- default is poly.
-
- Technology name
- This option is used with magic option and is to specify
- the technology.
-
- Minimum width
- The minimum width of the layer. This value is used in all
- the error correction and smoothing operations. The
- default is 2.
-
- Minimum spacing
- The minimum space of the layer. This value is used in all
- the error correction and smoothing operations. The
- default is 2.
-
- Partial error correction
- This switch toggles the error detection and correction
- stage. The default is off. When it is turned on the rel-
- evant parameters will be shown in the window.
-
- Scale factor
- The scaling factor, scales the layout by the this factor.
-
- Threshold before
- This option turns on the smoothing operation before error
- correction stage. The threshold_before is used as the
- threshold value used after the smoothing. It can be
- between 0 to 16. The smoothing function at the moment is
- a simple triangular function, and acts over a neighbour-
- hood of minimum_width.
-
- Threshold after
- This option turns on the smoothing operation before the
- error correction stage. The threshold_after is used as
- the threshold value used after the smoothing. It can be
- between 0 to 16. The smoothing function at the moment is
- a simple triangular function, and acts over a neighbour-
- hood of minimum_width
-
- Launch XV (Shortkey CTRL-V)
- This button launches the XV for grabbing a piece of
- graphics.
-
- Help (Shortkey CTRL-H)
- To bring up this window. In this window if you press
- the botton on the bottok saying 'OK, Get rid of this window'
- the window will disappear.
-
- Generate output (CTRL-G)
- After you have loaded an input file, press this button to
- generate the layout. If no input file is given, or if the
- specified input does not exist it will warn you of this
- problem. But if the output file does not exist, depending
- on the output format selected (magic or cif) it will save
- the layout in a default file 'logo.mag' or 'logo.cif'.
-
- Input File (CTRL-I)
- You should specify the input file name. You can also
- browse by pressing the browse button next to this input
- field.
-
- Output File (CTRL-O)
- You should specify the output file name. You can also
- browse by pressing the browse button next to this input
- field.
-
- Quite (CTRL-Q)
- You guess what this one does!!
-
- About (CTRL-A)
- Just the author info.
-
-NOTE
- The format of the input file SHOULD be 'PBM (ascii)-B&W
- Dithered'. With other formats xchiplogo will hang.
-
-AUTHOR
- Alireza Moini,
- Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering,
- The University of Adelaide
-
- moini@eleceng.adelaide.edu.au
- April 1996
+" \n\
+XCHIPLOGO \n\
+\n\
+ Xchiplogo is an X interface for chiplogo. \n\
+\n\
+FOR THOSE WHO DO NOT WANT TO WAIT ANY MORE\n\
+\n\
+ 1- open the input file (which should be in the PBM ascii, \n\
+ B&W format). You can use the input file browser. If you\n\
+ do not have any input file you can 'Launch XV' to grab some-\n\
+ thing from the screen and then save it into a file. Remember\n\
+ that after you generate the input file using XV, you should\n\
+ load it in.\n\
+ \n\
+ 2- Press the 'Generate Output'. If you do not have any spec-\n\
+ ific name for the outpu file in mind, xchiplogo will use \n\
+ 'logo.mag' or 'logo.cif' instead.\n\
+ \n\
+ 3- Your file is ready. You can have a look at it using your\n\
+ favorite layout editor.\n\
+ \n\
+ 4- If you want to partially correct some of the design rule\n\
+ errors, use the options in the 'Partial Error Correction' to\n\
+ reduce the number of errors. Note that every time that you \n\
+ change the parameters, the 'Generate Output' should be \n\
+ pressed to generate the new layout.\n\
+\n\
+AND THE REST OF THE STORY\n\
+\n\
+ Xchiplogo reads an ascii bitmap file, and converts it into a \n\
+ magic or cif file. It is a handy program for creating logos \n\
+ of text or graphics for putting on VLSI chips. At the\n\
+ moment it accepts the B&W dithered format of XV as the \n\
+ input. It has got quite a few options for resizing and get-\n\
+ ting rid of many design rule errors that can be found in the\n\
+ bitmap file. It has a smoothing, before and after an error\n\
+ correction step. The error correction step is pretty simple\n\
+ ,don't expect miracles, but it works quite fine and spe- \n\
+ cially for text gives a reasonable output. \n\
+\n\
+ I wrote this program when I saw my friends sitting for hours\n\
+ to write their name; in a font that we call mikhi in per-\n\
+ sian 'nail-font'. I have also seen many comercial layout\n\
+ editors which have tried to implement a simple text-logo\n\
+ generation, which all are very limited and inflexible. So I\n\
+ started Xchiplogo. The input to chiplogo is ascii bitmap.It\n\
+ really doesn't matter what program has generated the bitmap,\n\
+ as long as there are two digits at the begining of the file\n\
+ which tell the size of the bitmap in pixels, and then the\n\
+ sequence of the ones and zeros.\n\
+ \n\
+ Although the output files may seem a bit big, if you use\n\
+ magic after generating the file, magic reduces the size by a\n\
+ factor of more than 10!!!. It is simply because each black\n\
+ pixel in the input file becomes a box in the output magic\n\
+ file. Magic merges the boxes so that they conform to its\n\
+ corner stitch style. I have found magic to be the best\n\
+ package for editing the design rule errors of the generated\n\
+ layouts. With other layout editors you may lose your pati-\n\
+ ence.\n\
+ \n\
+OPTIONS, KEYS, and PARAMETERS\n\
+\n\
+ CIF layer name\n\
+ The cif layer that is to be used for the logo. The\n\
+ default is CPG (poly).\n\
+\n\
+ Micron/Lambda\n\
+ This parameter tells the scaling factor for a CIF format.\n\
+ For a 2 micron technology it is 50 (the default). For a \n\
+ 0.8 micron it should be set to 20, and so on.\n\
+ \n\
+ Magic layer name\n\
+ The magic layer name that is to be used for the logo. The\n\
+ default is poly.\n\
+ \n\
+ Technology name\n\
+ This option is used with magic option and is to specify\n\
+ the technology.\n\
+ \n\
+ Minimum width\n\
+ The minimum width of the layer. This value is used in all\n\
+ the error correction and smoothing operations. The\n\
+ default is 2.\n\
+ \n\
+ Minimum spacing\n\
+ The minimum space of the layer. This value is used in all\n\
+ the error correction and smoothing operations. The\n\
+ default is 2.\n\
+ \n\
+ Partial error correction\n\
+ This switch toggles the error detection and correction\n\
+ stage. The default is off. When it is turned on the rel-\n\
+ evant parameters will be shown in the window.\n\
+ \n\
+ Scale factor\n\
+ The scaling factor, scales the layout by the this factor.\n\
+ \n\
+ Threshold before\n\
+ This option turns on the smoothing operation before error\n\
+ correction stage. The threshold_before is used as the\n\
+ threshold value used after the smoothing. It can be\n\
+ between 0 to 16. The smoothing function at the moment is\n\
+ a simple triangular function, and acts over a neighbour-\n\
+ hood of minimum_width.\n\
+ \n\
+ Threshold after\n\
+ This option turns on the smoothing operation before the\n\
+ error correction stage. The threshold_after is used as\n\
+ the threshold value used after the smoothing. It can be\n\
+ between 0 to 16. The smoothing function at the moment is\n\
+ a simple triangular function, and acts over a neighbour-\n\
+ hood of minimum_width\n\
+\n\
+ Launch XV (Shortkey CTRL-V)\n\
+ This button launches the XV for grabbing a piece of \n\
+ graphics.\n\
+\n\
+ Help (Shortkey CTRL-H)\n\
+ To bring up this window. In this window if you press \n\
+ the botton on the bottok saying 'OK, Get rid of this window' \n\
+ the window will disappear.\n\
+ \n\
+ Generate output (CTRL-G)\n\
+ After you have loaded an input file, press this button to \n\
+ generate the layout. If no input file is given, or if the\n\
+ specified input does not exist it will warn you of this\n\
+ problem. But if the output file does not exist, depending\n\
+ on the output format selected (magic or cif) it will save\n\
+ the layout in a default file 'logo.mag' or 'logo.cif'.\n\
+ \n\
+ Input File (CTRL-I)\n\
+ You should specify the input file name. You can also \n\
+ browse by pressing the browse button next to this input \n\
+ field.\n\
+ \n\
+ Output File (CTRL-O)\n\
+ You should specify the output file name. You can also \n\
+ browse by pressing the browse button next to this input \n\
+ field.\n\
+\n\
+ Quite (CTRL-Q)\n\
+ You guess what this one does!!\n\
+\n\
+ About (CTRL-A)\n\
+ Just the author info.\n\
+ \n\
+NOTE\n\
+ The format of the input file SHOULD be 'PBM (ascii)-B&W \n\
+ Dithered'. With other formats xchiplogo will hang.\n\
+\n\
+AUTHOR\n\
+ Alireza Moini, \n\
+ Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering,\n\
+ The University of Adelaide\n\
+\n\
+ moini@eleceng.adelaide.edu.au\n\
+ April 1996\n\
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