Re: gEDA-user: More flexible rotated text for 1.6.0, font-sizes etc..

[Peter TB Brett <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:58:01 +0100, Peter Clifton <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> A. Match postscript point size - so a 10pt font prints / views as a 10pt
> font. (When printed on a title-block which matches the size of the paper
> - printed with no margin).
> 
> This takes the definition of 1pt as 1/72 of an inch, and scales the
> fonts assuming gschem units are 1/1000th of an inch. (Oh - and this size
> doesn't actually correspond to anything explicitly measurable on the
> typeface, it is just the logical design height of the font).
> 
> Screen sizes change (until we bump schematic schematics)
> Postscript sizes remain (until we bump schematic sizes)
> Conversion tools required to fix on-screen sizes.

This is my preferred solution, FWIW.

                              Peter



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