Re: gEDA-user: Wierd behaviour of libgeda printing code

[Peter Brett <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 25 February 2006 01:50, Ales Hvezda wrote:

> >I'd like to know:
> >
> >(1)  Does the development team even acknowledge there is a problem here?
>
> 	Yes, I do ack the problem and I do not know why your patch wasn't
> even acknowledged.
>
> 	As mentioned in a different thread, gEDA/gaf used to have a bug
> tracker, but it died when the server was replaced and the tracker
> software itself is no longer being maintained.	I haven't found a suitable
> replacement yet.

Yup, I've been following the conversation. I have some suggestions, but I'll 
post them to the correct thread.

> >(2)  Would they be prepared to help me fix it this time?
>
> 	I would be most willing to apply your patch if 1) it is against
> a current gEDA/gaf version (preferably the noweb sources) and 2) it
> doesn't change existing behavior in a bad way (ie it doesn't introduce
> unwanted side effects).

Fortunately, the behaviour that particular patch was trying to correct has 
been fixed since then, as far as I can tell. However, I still need to set the 
paper size twice to be able to print my schematics: once in the gschem print 
dialog, and again using ps2ps.

I'm guessing that the 'right' way to fix this would be to insert DSC comments 
into the PostScript file, and I tried it.  There's a snag though: no matter 
what the settings of the print dialog in gschem, 
w_current->setpagedevice_orientation and w_current->setpagedevice_pagesize 
are never, ever set?

Peter

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