Why do fabrication outputs differ (Mac / Windows)?

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Dear all,

we are colaborating in a small a team and using windows + mac devices in order to generate fabication outputs. Unfortunately, we are getting different gerber outputs when generating them on different platforms (kicad 8.0.8 is used, similar fonts were installed). It seems, that the files only differ slightly in the way the polygons are generated. What could be the reason? As we would like to perform some automated (regression) tests on the files, it would be helpfull if the same output could be generated on ALL platforms…

Thanks

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Some A/B examples would help…

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We should have reproducable fabrication outputs across platforms. Please post an example, and confirm it still happens in v9 (v8 will not get any further bug fixes).

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Hi, maybe it has to do with some missing fonts - let me check this first…

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Thank you - the issue could be solved by a collegue of mine.

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Good for you it’s fixed, but if you post here what caused it, it may also help others who are searching this forum.

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