> With those hierarchical names, they just don't fit well. Right > underneath that,on the opposite side, the board is cramped with 0603 > scrunched up against each other. Placing the text in any meaningful > way is hard.
I've had that problem. I just shut off the names for the board, and turned them back on only for the electronic view for reference. Are you trying to solve the refdes-shortening problem? Or just trying to come up with a workaround for names that don't fit? Perhaps they could be spit out as a separate layer, which means their own gerber file or a separate postscript page. Or a separate exporter that dumps them as a CSV file. For best results, you'd want to Add a grid system so you can find things on the board. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user