Re: gEDA: Slightly improved gschem postscript output

[Mike Jarabek <mjarabek@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2006-03-05 at 05:42 +0900, John Doty wrote:
> On Mar 3, 2006, at 8:30 PM, Wojciech Kazubski wrote:
> 
> > what should be set for each of multiple page; initial position? scale?
> > Now everything is printed on single page, but printing large sheet  
> > on several
> > pieces of paper may be considered.
> 
> Back a couple of years ago at the first free dog shindig in Porter  
> square I suggested to Ales that a "printframe" attribute attached to  
> a rectangle could designate a page boundary for printing purposes.  
> Attach that to the frames of the "title" symbols, and all would be  
> nice. Ales seemed to like the idea, but most likely he's to busy to  
> get a round tuit (so am I).

Noted, I am in the process of studying the print subsystem with an eye
to rewrite the bits to improve the output, and make it appear a closer
to other postscript output I have seen.

A questions to further the discussion on this:

1) What should happen if there is more than one `printarea' rectangle
defined?

2) How to we minimize user surprise if they place something outside of
the title block area if there is one of these `magic' squares built into
the symbol?

3) What do we do if there is no printarea defined?

4) What do we do if the attribute is attached to something other than a
rectangle?

5) How should printarea affect EPS output?

> Of course it's easy enough to keep pages in separate files. I have no  
> complaints: the work I've been doing in gEDA is the reason I'm in  
> Osaka this morning. Thanks, Ales et al.!
> 
> John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
> jpd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> 
Mike
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                              Mike Jarabek        
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