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From: Kai-Martin Knaak <kmk AT familieknaak DOT de>
Subject: Re: [geda-user] pcb: ARC bug
Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2016 06:40:09 +0200
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M. J. Everitt wrote:

> I've lost PCB elements off the drawing area by accident before ..
> the solution of simply enlarging the area, moving items, then
> re-adjusting seems perfectly reasonable to me.

I fail to see why pcb needs to enforce positioning to the "working 
area" in the first place. This might have had some merits when the 
working area was identical with the outline of the resulting board. 
But these days are long gone.

So my preferred solution would be a bit more general: 
 * Remove the distinction between working area and the rest of the 
canvas when in comes to positioning of objects.
 * Maybe, even remove the notion of the "working area" completely. 

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