Mail Archives: geda-user/2015/09/21/12:33:18
On Mon, 2015-09-21 at 17:57 +0200, Markus Hitter (mah AT jump-ing DOT de) [via
geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> Am 21.09.2015 um 16:30 schrieb Stefan Salewski:
> > But now I get the feeling that basic symbols (resistor, capacitor,
> > ...)
> > are indeed too large compared to the default 100 grid size. [...]
> > For screen display, I prefer 10 units for general line width, and
> > currently I like 600 units for total resistor length.
>
> As far as I can see, current preferred line width is zero, so it
> defaults to one pixel, which is almost unreadable on high resolution
> displays. (It took a really long time until people started to
> recognize
> that depending on the size of a pixel on a specific device (screen)
> isn't exactly a wise idea)
>
Yes, most of the time for old gschem symbols linewidth 0 was used. No
idea why. My first solution for Peted was using clipping and scaling,
which gave old symbols a better look on screen. Kai Martin used
linewidth 10 for his symbols, I think that is not bad in relation to
default grid 100, so I guess I will use that as default for Peted
symbols. Linewidth != 0 is always easily scalable, so we can scale to
thinner lines for printout, saving ink.
> Regarding text size I'd prefer one which approximately fits into the
> european resistor symbol. Which is smaller than the current size.
Ah, good point, I will check that.
> As you
> said, all elements are scaleable.
No. Text size and linewidth is scalable, symbol size not really, when
we want that hot pin ends rest on 100 grid multiples -- and we want
that for clean look.
>
> Texts are currently always anchored bottom left, which isn't a good
> choice when it should be centered.
Yes, text anchoring is wrong for many old symbols, which can be very
ugly sometimes, for example when text is scaled and becomes misaligned.
Center is not always best, we have 9 points, and with Peted selecting
origin is fun.
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