Comment 43 for bug 1823087

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Wayne Stambaugh (stambaughw) wrote :

@Jeff, my preference would have been to leave the segment filled zone plotting alone since it was proven code and add the warning when plotting gerbers asking the user if they wanted to convert all segment filled zones to polygon filled zones. Now that plotting segment filled zones has be removed, the problem is far more difficult and far less less user friendly. How much trouble would it be to restore the segment filled zone plotting code? I understand JP's concerns about sending segment filled zone plots to a board vendor but how serious of a problem is that really? It seems like the cure was worse than the disease. From the comments in this bug report there is a least one board vendor that still doesn't support polygon fills and requires segment filled zones so there are probably others. Do we really want to force users either use an older version of KiCad or find a new board vendor?