X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com From: Kai-Martin Knaak Subject: Re: [geda-user] text thickness Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2012 22:30:53 +0200 Organization: Institut =?UTF-8?B?ZsO8cg==?= Quantenoptik Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet AT ger DOT gmane DOT org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: bibo.iqo.uni-hannover.de User-Agent: KNode/4.4.11 Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Geoff Swan wrote: > Is there any way to change the thickness of the lines used to create > text? I can increase the size of the text no problems - and the text > thickness does also increase at the same time, however I'd like it to > be thicker than it currently is. From the look of the file format I've > concluded this may not be possible without changing the source... but > I'm hoping I'm wrong about that. There does not seem to be an action for this. But the file format contains a width parameter for every single stroke of a character. You can manipulate the thickness parameter in the SymbolLine[] stances of character definitions inside the pcb file. Default line thickness is 8.00mil. You may use a sed command like this to change it: sed -i -e s/\ 8.00mil\]/\ 16.00mil\]/g $FILE.pcb This affects every text in the layout. If you wish to make this the default for new layout, you can change the file "default_font". In a build from git it usually sits at: /usr/local/share/pcb/default_font (This file still uses the old syntax of integer mil sizes without units.) I noticed, that pcb enforces minimum thickness given by DRC. Stroke thickness is automatically increased, so it does not violate DRC constraints. ---<)kaimartin(>---