Re: gEDA-user: schematic symbol text size for printing

["Ed & Angie S." <edangies@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ben,

Thanks for the response.  I may have more than one issue because I haven't 
addressed the anchor point issue at all.  However, when I compare schematics 
printed out before and after the upgrade the text size (not just position) 
is significantly smaller for the post upgrade schematic page.  The post 
upgrade text size in the print out is quite hard to read.  I'm printing on A 
size sheets and before the upgrade my schematics were quite readable.  The 
individual characters are smaller so it's not simply a proportional verses 
non proportional font issue either.  It's possible that the screen font was 
slightly larger than the print font for the old gEDA version also but the 
difference must have been so slight as to not be noticeable.  Note that the 
gEDA version I was using previously was a year or two old.

Ed

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ben Jackson" <ben@xxxxxxx>
To: "gEDA user mailing list" <geda-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 9:43 AM
Subject: Re: gEDA-user: schematic symbol text size for printing


> On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 09:50:24AM -0600, Ed & Angie S. wrote:
>> the text size
>> for schematic symbols when printed is much smaller than before the
>> upgrade.  The problem is very evident for symbols which use a line above
>> part of the signal name text to indicate negated because the line is no
>> longer located in the correct place relative to the text.  All symbol
>> text looks fine on the screen; the problem is only with printed 
>> schematics.
>
> When text looks different when printed it's usually because the anchor
> point for the text is not where you want.  I seem to recall a mention
> of an "automatic anchor point moving feature", which is possibly affecting
> you.
>
> Since gschem does not print using its internal vector font, if the anchor
> point for your text is not "toward" the symbol, the smaller printed font
> means that the gap between the edge of the text and the symbol will
> increase.  In the case of a hand-drawn overbar, you'd have to make the
> anchor top/center (in the default rotation) in order to have the bar stay
> in approximately the right place.  It will still be too big for the 
> printed
> text.  If the bar is supposed to go over only one word of the text it's
> probably impossible to ensure it prints correctly.
>
> (and the print font has always been smaller since I started using gschem!)
>
> -- 
> Ben Jackson AD7GD
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> http://www.ben.com/
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