FPED:(1)

💖 FPED:(1) — the footprint editor glow-up 💖

fped — Footprint editor. Yeah bestie, we're editing footprints now. 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

fped [-k] [-p|-P [-s scale]] [-T [-T]] [cpp_option ...] [in_file [out_file]]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so. fped is an editor that lets you make footprints of electronic components interactively, like with your hands, in a GUI, which is honestly so much nicer than screaming at a text file. 🫶

Footprint definitions live in a text format that kinda looks like a programming language — it's giving "compiler but make it fashion". And here's the iconic part: the language is constrained so that anything you can express in the textual definition also has a straightforward equivalent operation you can do through the GUI. No secret menu, no hidden syntax, no gatekeeping. 💅

The full description of the GUI is right here:

http://downloads.qi-hardware.com/people/werner/fped/gui.html

go look at it, i'll wait. ✨

💜 OPTIONS 💜

• -k — write KiCad output, then exit. That's it, that's the whole thing. KiCad, boom, gone. 👑
• -p — write Postscript output, then exit. Old-school, but make it serve. 💅
• -P — write Postscript output, but full page, then exit. Same energy, bigger canvas. 🌈
• -s scale — the scale factor for -P. Default is auto-scale, because she scales herself, she's independent. 😌
• -T — test mode. Load the file, then exit. Just a lil vibe check. 🧚
• -T -T — test mode, but doubled up. Load the file, dump it to stdout, then exit. Two -Ts, because one was simply not enough. 💀
• cpp_option — the preprocessor's lil guys: -Idir, -Dname[=value], or -Uname. 👑

Please report any further bugs at werner@almesberger.net 🐛 — fr fr, if something's cursed, tell him, not the group chat.

📜 LICENCE 📜

fped is covered by the GNU General Public License (GPL), version 2 or later. The legal paperwork ate and left no crumbs. ✨

👑 AUTHORS 👑

• Werner Almesberger <werner@almesberger.net>
• This manual page was written by Xiangfu Liu <xiangfu.z@gmail.com>. It is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL (version 2 or later).

and that's the whole page, bestie 🎀 — source and version vibes from October 2010, filed under FPED:(1). go build some footprints, you absolute main character. 💖✨🌸🦋