RE: gEDA-user: background color and PNG out

["EATON,JOHN (HP-Vancouver,ex1)" <john_eaton@hp.com>]

My personel preference is to work with a black background
on a screen. The problem is that my main usage for gscheme
is to produce output that is either printed or inserted into
documents or both. In some cases I wind up printing a blacked
out page with colored lines.

My only suggestion would be to have seperate color maps for each 
output device. For example a color number of "2" could be mapped
to green for the sceen, Black for the postscript printer and green
for the PNG output. That way you could have a white line on a 
black screen and still be able to see it if printed on a white
sheet of paper.

Twenty years ago the only thing a schematic capture system had to 
do was get it's output to a plotter. Now it's more important to 
get graphical output combined into documents and published on
websites and in pdf files.

John Eaton







-----Original Message-----
From: Ales Hvezda [mailto:ahvezda@seul.org]
Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 8:40 PM
To: geda-user@seul.org
Subject: Re: gEDA-user: background color and PNG out 



Since you are the first user to even tell me that they are trying the
light background, do you have any suggestions to make it better/easier
to read/use?

								-Ales