Table of Contents

Copying
History
1. Introduction

1.1 Symbols
1.2 Vias
1.3 Elements
1.4 Layers
1.5 Lines
1.6 Arcs
1.7 Polygons
1.8 Text
1.9 Nets

2. Getting Started

2.1 The Application Window

2.1.1 Menus
2.1.2 The Status-line and Input-field
2.1.3 The Panner Control
2.1.4 The Layer Controls
2.1.5 The Tool Selectors
2.1.6 Layout Area

2.2 Log Window
2.3 Library Window
2.4 Netlist Window
2.5 Drawing and Removing Basic Objects

2.5.1 Lines
2.5.2 Arcs
2.5.3 Polygons and Rectangles
2.5.4 Text
2.5.5 Vias
2.5.6 Elements
2.5.7 Pastebuffer

2.6 Moving and Copying
2.7 Loading and Saving
2.8 Printing
2.9 Connection Lists
2.10 Arrow Tool
2.11 Rats Nest
2.12 Design Rule Checking

3. User Commands
4. Command-Line Options

4.1 Options
4.2 Special Options

5. X11 Interface

5.1 Non-Standard X11 Application Resources
5.2 Actions
5.3 Default Translations

6. File Formats

6.1 Basic Types
6.2 Layout File Format
6.3 Element File Format
6.4 Font File Format
6.5 Netlist File Format
6.6 Library Contents File Format
6.7 Library File Format

A. Installation and Troubleshooting

A.1 Compiling and Installing

A.1.1 Editing config.h
A.1.2 Manuals
A.1.3 Compiling the Package

A.2 Troubleshooting

A.2.1 HP Series 700 and 800
A.2.2 Sun SPARC architecture
A.2.3 Silicon Graphics
A.2.4 DEC Alpha
A.2.5 SCO Unix
A.2.6 Linux
A.2.7 FreeBSD and NetBSD
A.2.8 Problems related to X11
A.2.9 Problems related to TeX

Index of Resources
Index of Actions, Commands and Options
Index of Concepts