gEDA-user: Bug when printing a schematic with pictures?

[Steven Ball]

Hi all,

I dug through the mailing list as best as I could, and did not find  
any specific mention of this issue, so I thought I would post here  
and see if anyone else is experiencing it or has a solution.

I am running gschem version 20050820 on a Mac OSX machine.  I realize  
this version is a tad out of date, but it is the newest package I  
could find that would work on the Mac with just a compile.

Recently, I started using the picture insert feature in gschem to  
include a logo, which is composed of a graphic along with some text.   
The format of this logo is PNG, greyscale.  I have also tested this  
bug with a greyscale jpeg, same results.

The bug is that if you are not zoomed in on the picture when you go  
to 'print' the schematic to PostScript, the resulting picture in the  
PostScript ends up being blurry.  That is to say, it seems that  
whatever viewing aspect you currently have determines what resolution  
the picture will have in the PostScript file.  If you are fully  
zoomed out, the picture ends up to be blurry and unreadable.   
However, if I zoom in such that the picture fills the screen, then  
the embedded picture comes out completely clear.  The rest of the  
schematic is not affected either way.

Is this indeed a bug, or some kind of wacky feature?  :)  This zoom  
in workaround is OK for now, but slightly annoying.  However, the  
picture insert feature is fantastic, though...

I can provide some examples in case this was not very clear.

Steve Ball
Snurkle Engineering