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?
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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