On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 15:31 +0100, Peter Clifton wrote: > On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 08:25 -0600, John Doty wrote: > > On Jun 9, 2009, at 8:15 AM, Peter Clifton wrote: > > > > > New text elements created by gEDA 1.6.0 will be sized directly in > > > points, assuming gschem world coordinate units are 1/1000th of an > > > inch, > > > and 1pt is 1/72 of an inch. > > > > Do gEDA users commonly use schematic scales where a world coordinate > > unit is 1/1000 of an inch? I don't: usually I use a B or C frame and > > print on letter or A4, which make the coordinate units smaller. > > Not as printed - no, unless your title block matches your paper size. > > However; the title-blocks defined to be particular paper sizes, do have > their sizes such that 1x world unit is 1/1000th of an inch.
Ok.. another option: No migration No file-format bumps / syntax changes Hard code a 1.3x scale factor between gschem font units and points, both on-screen and for print. This means schematics will print with their text a bit larger, but matching on-screen rendering. Old schematics will render roughly the same on screen - albiet with text taking up a little less width. (See large vs. medium boxes in my last example). Drop all notion of "points" from the file-format definition of our font size. I'm inclined remove this option: ; postscript-font-scale real ; ; Sets a scaling factor for the text in the PostScript output. This ; can be used to make the output postscript font slightly larger to ; more closely match the text in the printout to the size of the text ; on the screen. ; The default value is 1.0. (postscript-font-scale 1.0) Screen and print _must_ match, and that means fixing this at 1.3. I don't want to add an option to adjust the combined scaling, since this just gives too many degrees of freedom. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user