Mail Archives: geda-user/2015/09/21/10:39:29
There was really much activity on this list recently :-)
Unfortunately that was much more than I could read...
What do you think about gschems symbol and text size? Is it optimal? I
can remember that some people complained that symbols are too large
some years ago. I did not understood it that time, because generally
symbols are scaled, so one can use a larger title block.
But now I get the feeling that basic symbols (resistor, capacitor, ...)
are indeed too large compared to the default 100 grid size. Resistor is
900 units in length, so for default 100 grid it can be placed in 9
steps on his own area. Or, compared to the symbol size, default 100
grid is too small. Making 200 grid the default does not work well,
because 900 is odd. And indeed I think that 100 is a nice default grid
size. So I consider shrinking the basic symbols. For screen display, I
prefer 10 units for general line width, and currently I like 600 units
for total resistor length. See http://ssalewski.de/PetEd.html.en topmos
t picture. I think these smaller symbols really look cleaner with 100
grid. Movement of symbols occurs in larger steps, so general clean
placement is easier. For PDF and printout I would use the same size,
but smaller line width. And what do you think about default text size
in relation to symbols? Generally text size is not really important,
because it can be arbitrary scaled all the time, but a nice default is
always good.
Note: On that picture you can see the 9 gray position marker crosses
which are displayed when mouse pointer hovers over a text element. You
can press MMB over one of them to change alignment of text. I like it.
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