Re: gEDA-user: gschem font scaling

[Stefan Salewski <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 14:05 +0000, Peter Clifton wrote:
> 
> It does mean that postscript output has seen its font size increase (by
> a factor of x1.3). Sometimes I still think I made the wrong decision in
> doing it that way.
> 
> The choice was either smaller on-screen fonts compared to pre gEDA
> 1.6.0, or try to match on-screen - and increase the postscript output
> size.
> 
> I really wish I'd fixed 1-1, and just shrunk the on-screen rendering
> now. Unfortunately, this isn't something we can easily change back - as
> consistency is good.
> 
> Technically, it "could" go in a 1.6.1 update - but I suspect there would
> be a lot of (valid) opposition to that, since it isn't really a "bug
> fix" per-se.
> 

Indeed my feeling is that preserving the font size for print out would
have been the better decision.

gschem prior to 1.6 was not fully "What You See Is What You Get". I
think for such a case most people optimize the schematics to get a fine
looking printout. At least this is what I did. I used default font size
for screen and printout, and moved symbols close together on screen so
that text sometimes touches the symbols. I carefully set the reference
point for all text, so the postscript output with scaled down text looks
nice. I made a printout with 1.6 -- does not look nice.

But of course this is not a serious problem, at least not for me.

Best regards

Stefan Salewski




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