Re: gEDA-user: gschem scale

[Ales Hvezda <ahvezda@xxxxxxxx>]

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>Ok, John pointed out something that made me measure my symbols.  My
>"official" cs8900a symbol turned out to be 23" tall by 11" wide, if
>you trust that the units are mils.  I understand why he prefers a more
>compact format now.
>
>Since there are no coordinates displayed on the window, nor a "100%
>scale" option when printing, why bother calling them mils at all?  Is
>there anything that cares that a unit happens to be a mil, or does
>everything autoscale?
>
>It makes me wonder just how big all my old schematics really are.
>

	I wish I had never mentioned that the internal schematic unit
is mils.  The units in gschem are not mils.  :)  I really ought to remove
that from the docs completely.

								-Ales