On Oct 29, 2008, at 4:22 PM, Dave McGuire wrote: > On Oct 29, 2008, at 5:33 PM, John Doty wrote: >>>>> Should I adjust the size of the symbols or the size of title- >>>>> B.sym? >>>>> What is the correct way and how do I do that? >>>> >>>> I would adjust the size of the symbols. The standard symbols seem a >>>> bit too big >>>> for me as well. >>> >> That's not the paradigm. The way gEDA works is that you keep the >> symbol size constant in gEDA's arbitrary units, and make the extent >> of your page what you want to shrink them to the size you want. >> >> I personally find title-B about right for letter or A4 paper with the >> existing symbols. I like modules I can comprehend, not spaghetti >> going all over the place. I also don't want to give the bifocals too >> much of a workout ;-) >> >> Note that you don't have to use a titleblock at all. Some of my >> collaborators just put in cvstitleblock-1.sym with no frame, so the >> schematic just fills whatever page it's printed on. > > I rather despise the new-fangled "plop a component down and attach > netnames to each of the pins, with no lines going anywhere" > methodology, if that's what you meant by your spaghetti reference. ;)
No, I meant the opposite, where you have hundreds of long lines on the page, requiring extremely careful tracing to figure out where the one you're interested goes. I like named nets. For the CCD focal plane electronics on the Suzaku satellite, I dispensed with drawings for the backplane altogether. I just had a database of net<->connector pin associations and ground it into the netlist form the layout software wanted with an AWK script. Very easy to understand and edit. But then I turned it over real engineers (I'm just a physicist faking it), and they just *had* to have a drawing. To my eyes, it's incomprehensible... But to each his own. > > What I like to do is have large schematics with small symbols, > with a title block, and I print them usually at 11"x17". Would it be > reasonable to simply use a LARGE title block (say, E size) and scale > it to fit the page on the way out to the printer? Yes. That's the approach gschem supports: the paper size you give in the print dialog determines the scale of the PS output. I typically print a "B" titleblock on "A" paper. Some prefer "C" (screen) to "A" (paper). The only unreasonable thing here is that I suspect you'll find that people will need a magnifier to read "E" to "B". But maybe your readers' eyes are better than mine. John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd. http://www.noqsi.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user