freeware for schematic to pcb?

I would like to be able to take a schematic- which can be already be in jpg format from the web or drawn with a program if necessary- and have it converted into a pcb layout. The layout can either be Vectorboard or standard pcb. Is there any freeware that will do this?

Thanks, Greg

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Greg Waterston
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Magically? No. Packages like gEDA or Kicad do provide the tools you need to do it yourself, though - a schematic capture tool to edit the schematic, and a pcb layout tool to design the board.

Also, gEDA's PCB can take a manually-edited netlist and manually added parts from the core library, and let you design a board without needing to re-capture the schematics, if the circuit is simple enough.

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DJ Delorie

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JeffM

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completely off topic, but i noticed that the title of the post was changed... are these groups moderated?...

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First, you realize that THIS ISN'T GOOGLE GROUPS. Right?

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