gEDA-user: newbie, couple of Q's about gschem

[Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greetings all;

As an old (73), semi-retired broadcast engineer, I thought maybe I'd improve 
the output format of my doodles when I'm building something as I'm still on 
staff for transmitter stuff and probably will be till I fall over.

Mentally rigging up some remote control circuitry last night, I used gschem to 
draw up a few functions, attempting to sequence and isolate a 50+ year old GE 
transmitters control with that of a 35 year old Harris that I'm rigging for 
use as a driver for the GE's final amplifier.  I cannot get the tubes the GE 
uses in the medium power stages anymore as Eimac quit making them back in the 
1980 time frame, and the last pair of 4-1000's on the planet is in it and 
getting tired now.

Complaint #1 is that the diode bridge symbol is about 1/8th the area of a 
landscape letter page, occupying many times the real estate that the DPDT 
relay symbol occupies.  And for a newbie, no obvious way to scale it or them 
to a more pleasing and usable size.  Did I miss it in my menu searches?

Complaint #2 is that while I can see the connection dots in color on screen, 
they are not nearly so obvious when printed in black & white, and it would be 
very handy if the much older ')' style of non-connecting crossover symbol was 
available, but again I couldn't find it.

I assume there is a symbol editor too, but I didn't look very hard for it.

For what I wanted to do, it would have been not only nice, but also intuitive, 
if a symbol when selected and floating, ready to place, would be zoomable 
with the mouse wheel in order to scale it for a more usable, pleasing size.  
As it worked, the mouse wheel still zooms the main page, not the symbol other 
than it followed the main pages size changes too.

Complaint #3, and minor, is that the printout is B&W.  Even when fed to a 
color capable printer.

Overall, the gEDA suite has come quite a ways since I first looked at it 
several years ago, and a tip of the hat in the coders direction from me as a 
thank you gesture is offered.

Comments anyone?

-- 
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
The man on tops walks a lonely street; the "chain" of command is often a 
noose.


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