Mike, Thanks for the info. I didn't know about the adjustment you mentioned; it seems to work as you describe. While playing with the adjustment I've learned a bit more about my situation. All of the symbols I had created with the old gEDA used a font size of 8. Symbols created with the new gEDA use a font size of 10. Thus, schematic pages I create with all new symbols in the new version of gEDA look great. Schematics created with the new gEDA using my older symbols are the problem. The system-gschemrc for my older gEDA version does not seem to have the same adjustment so maybe it was hard coded to something higher than the new gEDA system-gschemrc default value of 1.0.
I only have a few symbols in my library so I will change them all to a size 10 font. I didn't really have a standard for creating the symbols because I always started by using a similar symbol from the gEDA library as a template. Thus, I never really set the text size for any of my symbols. I wonder if font size 8 was the size of choice for the older versions of gEDA. I probably should have been working with a newer version of gEDA anyway but I simply used the package that came with Debian Sarge. As always, thanks for the quick response from the gEDA user group. Best Regards, Ed ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Jarabek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "gEDA user mailing list" <geda-user@moria.seul.org> Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 11:00 AM Subject: Re: gEDA-user: schematic symbol text size for printing > Hi, > > Besides the font anchor point, there's also a fudge-factor adjustment > you can apply in the system-gschemrc. This sets a scaling factor between > gschem's internal units and the font size. This is needed because not all > fonts are created equal. If this does not do the trick for you, can you > send me the postscipt output and the schematic/symbol that's causing you > grief and I will look into it. > > Also, gschem supports overbars natively, and the PS code automatically > makes them look nice. Just put a '_' where you want it to start and > another '_' where you want it to end. > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Mike Jarabek > FPGA/ASIC Designer, DSP Firmware Designer > http://www.sentex.ca/~mjarabek > -------------------------------------------------- > > -----Original Message----- > From: "Ed & Angie S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 11:17:42 > To:"gEDA user mailing list" <geda-user@moria.seul.org> > Subject: Re: gEDA-user: schematic symbol text size for printing > > > Ben, > > Thanks for the response. I may have more than one issue because I haven't > addressed the anchor point issue at all. However, when I compare > schematics > printed out before and after the upgrade the text size (not just position) > is significantly smaller for the post upgrade schematic page. The post > upgrade text size in the print out is quite hard to read. I'm printing on > A > size sheets and before the upgrade my schematics were quite readable. The > individual characters are smaller so it's not simply a proportional verses > non proportional font issue either. It's possible that the screen font > was > slightly larger than the print font for the old gEDA version also but the > difference must have been so slight as to not be noticeable. Note that > the > gEDA version I was using previously was a year or two old. > > Ed > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ben Jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "gEDA user mailing list" <geda-user@moria.seul.org> > Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 9:43 AM > Subject: Re: gEDA-user: schematic symbol text size for printing > > >> On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 09:50:24AM -0600, Ed & Angie S. wrote: >>> the text size >>> for schematic symbols when printed is much smaller than before the >>> upgrade. The problem is very evident for symbols which use a line above >>> part of the signal name text to indicate negated because the line is no >>> longer located in the correct place relative to the text. All symbol >>> text looks fine on the screen; the problem is only with printed >>> schematics. >> >> When text looks different when printed it's usually because the anchor >> point for the text is not where you want. I seem to recall a mention >> of an "automatic anchor point moving feature", which is possibly >> affecting >> you. >> >> Since gschem does not print using its internal vector font, if the anchor >> point for your text is not "toward" the symbol, the smaller printed font >> means that the gap between the edge of the text and the symbol will >> increase. In the case of a hand-drawn overbar, you'd have to make the >> anchor top/center (in the default rotation) in order to have the bar stay >> in approximately the right place. It will still be too big for the >> printed >> text. If the bar is supposed to go over only one word of the text it's >> probably impossible to ensure it prints correctly. >> >> (and the print font has always been smaller since I started using >> gschem!) >> >> -- >> Ben Jackson AD7GD >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> http://www.ben.com/ >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> geda-user mailing list >> geda-user@moria.seul.org >> http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user >> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > geda-user mailing list > geda-user@moria.seul.org > http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user > > > > _______________________________________________ > geda-user mailing list > geda-user@moria.seul.org > http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user > _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user