Low quality of silkscreen text in gerber files

Hi,

The quality of the silkscreen text is very low when viewing the gerber output in separate applications.
Is there a way to improve the quality? Because now it’s barely legible.

Rob.

Hi @robertfoss,

Do you have a link to your project and/or screenshots of the gerbers in the gerber viewers that you’re using? What is the font size of your silkscreen text?

After having a look at a few other gerb viewers it would seem like gerbv from gEDA is the culprit.

I talked to my PCB manufacturer and they indicated the line width on the text was too large, causing low quality text.

I’ll add something to the list here, but screenshots, design ids, etc, etc would be very helpful for debugging this further.