The eda-tools welcome the arrival of fpd2pdf

- fpd2pdf/fpd2pdf: footprint pretty-printer
- README: list fpd2pdf
- README: licensing terms may also be just in the file in question, if
  there's only one

README

@@ -10,8 +10,11 @@ This is a collection of utilities for Electronic Design Automation:
 - dsv: data sheet viewer. A simple but efficient system for caching data
   sheets and displaying them with xpdf from command line.
 
+- fpd2pdf: convert a set of footprints (made with FPED) into a
+  reviewer-friendly PDF.
+
 - schhist: a system to walk a KiCad project's git revision history and
   generating Web-browseable graphical differences of the schematics.
 
 Each utility can have its own licensing terms. They're specified in the
-respective directory.
+respective directory or in the file itself.

fpd2pdf/fpd2pdf

@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# fpd2pdf - Print a set of Fped files into a PDF
+#
+# Written 2010 by Werner Almesberger
+# Copyright 2010 Werner Almesberger
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+
+
+usage()
+{
+    cat <<EOF 1>&2
+usage: $0 [-a] [-o out.pdf] file.fpd ...
+
+  -a          also include files whose name contains a tilde (backup files)
+  -o out.pdf  write to the specified file (default: standard output)
+EOF
+    exit 1
+}
+
+
+out=-
+all=false
+
+while true; do
+    case "$1" in
+    -a)	all=true
+	shift;;
+    -o)	[ -z "$2" ] && usage
+	out="$2"
+	shift 2;;
+    -*)	usage;;
+    *)	break;;
+    esac
+done
+
+[ -z "$1" ] && usage
+
+eval gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=$out -f \
+  `for n in "$@"; do $all || [ "$n" = "${n/\~/}" ] && \
+  echo "<(fped -p \"$n\" -)"; done`