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Re: gEDA-user: Off-by-one display



On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 09:58:30AM -0500, DJ Delorie wrote:
> 
> > Is PCB supposed to keep topology, i. e. for example not draw
> > background where from principle never is?
> 
> PCB uses X to draw all of its screen objects, and I don't think it
> tries too hard to get the border cases right.  Since X is very picky
> about how to specify border cases, it's understandable that it might
> be off by a pixel here and there.  Now, if the PS or Gerber output has
> such problems, THAT is a bug.

So I can put rectangles side-by-side in Gerber and Postscript and the
fab house must not say anything? :)

Cl<