Re: gEDA-user: Line width of silk-screen text

[David Kuehling <dvdkhlng@xxxxxx>]

>>>>> "DJ" == DJ Delorie <dj@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>> Is there a way to change the default line thickness used by the
>> default font without increasing the font size itself?

> Set the minimum silk width in the "board sizes" dialog.  It will emit
> gerbers with the right size, even if it shows up thinner on the screen
> (yes, there's a reason for that, no, it's not a great reason).

That makes sense.  It also helps to explain why the PostSript-files
exported from PCB look different from them way the layout is displayed
by PCB.

But having a very close-up look on the exported postscript files, it
seems that PCB also enlarges pads by a small amount.  Or is there some
kind of rounding problem?  Here are two screenshots of a component, one
from within PCB, the other from the postscript output displayed in 'gv':

http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~dvdkhlng/u300-pcb.png
http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~dvdkhlng/u300-gv.png

Is this problem to be expected from the gerber output as well?  The
postscript looks like non-manufacturable due to silk-to-pad distance
being to small.

regards,

David
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