On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Nima Lotfi wrote: > Thanks everyone for your suggestions! I'm looking for an automated > approach to add to our verification steps. I often envy software > developers who have many text file compare tools such as beyond compare. > Visual checking is not practical with number of signal we have. That's where the power of unix/Linux helps out. The gerbv stuff is tested nightly using scripts which compare newly rendered Gerber files against pre-existing "golden" ones. Differences between the newly rendered image and the golden one are automatically flagged using the script, so no human intervention is required. Here's the script: http://gerbv.cvs.sourceforge.net/gerbv/gerbv/test/run_tests.sh?revision=1.5&view=markup Maybe this will give you some ideas about how to use gerbv/ImageMagick to perform your task. Cheers, Stuart ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list For help: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field List technical documents are available at: http://www.si-list.net List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list or at our remote archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu