Comment 3 for bug 1545668

Actually, the TX16W file does have component legends etc. as you can see by this file which results from importing it into Eagle 7.5.0: http://www.firstpr.com.au/temp/kicad-bugs/TX16W-memory-board-1992-from-Altium-16-0-exported-as-P-CAD-ASCII.PCB.brd , which, when opened with Kicad 4.0.1 shows the full design: http://www.firstpr.com.au/temp/kicad-bugs/TX16W-memory-board-1992-from-Altium-16-0-exported-as-P-CAD-ASCII.PCB.brd.kicad_pcb .

Its just that Kicad 2013-07-07 does not show them, due to the value being written to the reference, which is set to invisible, and nothing being written to the value. Nor does the saved Kicad file contain the text of the legends on copper or overlay layers. So the old import code did not work properly. This bug report is solely for the ability to read the file at all.