Hi Mike,
> I have been working quietly in the background on cleaning up the
>postscript output for gschem. So far, with my local copy, on my test
>`schematic' the output Postscript file shrinks by about 50%. I have all
>of the basic drawing primitives working, a prolog from a file is copied
>into the output, and am about 30% of the way through the final
>primitive, text. (Unicode support, overbar support on postscript fonts,
>and postscript multiline text support.) I few questions have come up
I can't wait to play with your changes. :-)
>while re-coding the output that I am seeking clarifications for.
>
> 1) What units is the line width expressed in? Is it in mils,
>postscript native points, or in some other unit?
It is in mils.
>
> 2) I may have to look into this some more, but the dots in the
>`center' and `phantom' line styles look a little anemic, and this seems
>to be because the dot is drawn at half the line width. I am not sure if
>the effect is because of rounding at the printer or because of design.
> Right not, I set it up so that the dots are rendered at the full line
>size for the printer. Does anyone object? (I did see code in there
>that messed with the dot size, when I replicated this code in the output
>postscript, the results looked anemic, plus, the old output also looked
>pretty thin on my monitor.)
Yeah, it if looks anemic, go ahead and leave in your fix and
I'll take a look at it. Patrick is really the one who implemented these
line types so he might have something more constructive to say, but I'm
fine with the change if it makes the output look better.
>
> 3) What units the the text size in? Is it in units of 10mils, or
>points?
It is in points. There might be a fudge factor somewhere in there
to make the rendered text match the postscript output.
Let me know if you have any other questions.
-Ales
