gEDA-user: Gschem printing style chang (20060123 to 20060906)

[John Griessen]

Mike Jarabek wrote:
  Is it possible to add a scaling factor? Old postscript exporter
>> created postscript text a bit bigger than vector text.
> 
> That can be done, but I had believed that the text size was in 'points' from 
> the data structures.  The trouble is that the Helvetica font that is being 
> used to print the schematics does not have the same font metrics as the 
> stroked vector font.  If you change the output font for another font, the 
> scaling factor that we have chosen for the Helvetica is unlikely to be 
> the 'right' scale factor for the new font.  This probably needs to be a user 
> tunable parameter too.


When I  made a gschem symbol with thicker than default line widths, the 
generated drawing of it on gedasymbols.org was about 10X fatter than the on 
screen and printout results.  I mentioned this on this list and DJ said he'd 
give it a look, and it seems "same size as printed" now... Is that related?

See http://www.gedasymbols.org/user/john_griessen/symbols/gas-disch-tube-3.sym
(It is a good line width now -- as printouts and on screen are)

John Griessen