Re: gEDA-user: gschem scale

[Dan McMahill <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > 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 often times end up drawing schematics on C size paper (22 x 17).  So 
just a little shrink will get you into that.  I find that C shrunk to an 
A (11 x 8.5) is still fairly easy to read.

-Dan