Hi,
On Sun, 2006-03-05 at 10:57 +0900, John Doty wrote:
> On Mar 5, 2006, at 9:20 AM, Mike Jarabek wrote:
>
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> >
> > A questions to further the discussion on this:
> >
> > 1) What should happen if there is more than one `printarea' rectangle
> > defined?
>
> Print each one on a separate page. The example I showed Ales is a
> diagram for a large complicated board that takes 16 pages to print.
> As currently drawn, I need to go through manually doing "print zoomed
> view" 16 times to print it. Fortunately, I haven't needed to revise
> that design in the last two years ;-)
I understand better now, this could be used to split up a larger drawing
into printable `tiles', manually. Each tile prints on a separate page.
With this then, if there was a set of overlapping printareas then you
will get the union area printed. Any areas outside the boxes would not
get printed. This makes sense.
This brings up another question: Should all the pages wind up in a
single postscript file?
>
> >
> > 2) How to we minimize user surprise if they place something outside of
> > the title block area if there is one of these `magic' squares built
> > into
> > the symbol?
> >
>
> Seems to me that the most helpful thing would be to make the first
> page cover the whole extent: this will show stragglers and serve as a
> roadmap to a multipage schematic. Skip this if there is exactly one
> printframe and it matches the extent.
Perhaps the list of print options in the dialog box needs to be `Print
window contents', `Print to extents' and `Print only defined
printareas'?
>
> > 3) What do we do if there is no printarea defined?
> >
>
> Print the whole thing. The suggested rule above would do that.
If there was a print option as above, perhaps a warning if no printareas
are defined, then print to extents?
>
> > 4) What do we do if the attribute is attached to something other
> > than a
> > rectangle?
> >
>
> What's the usual response to an inappropriately attached attribute?
> Do we need a standard?
I think I might want to print a warning.. `Found printarea attribitue
attached to `line/circle/arc...' at location x,y, in schematic
"foo.sch". This attribute should only be attached to a box. Ignoring and
continuing'
>
> > 5) How should printarea affect EPS output?
>
> A multipage eps seems crazy. Maybe the eps pages of foo.sch should be
> foo.1.eps, foo.2.eps, etc.
Sounds reasonable.
>
> John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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