gEDA-user: Line width of silk-screen text

[joeft]

DJ Delorie wrote:

>>Is there a way to change the default line thickness used by the default
>>font without increasing the font size itself?
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>Set the minimum silk width in the "board sizes" dialog.  It will emit
>gerbers with the right size, even if it shows up thinner on the screen
>(yes, there's a reason for that, no, it's not a great reason).
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I'm curious to know what the "not a great" reason is.  Showing the 
silkscreen on-screen the same size it will be fabbed is important when 
laying out tightly spaced components.  Shouldn't WYSIWYG be the 
expectation in this case?  As I recall, a couple versions back, PCB used 
to show the silk the correct size - is there a way to configure the 
previous behavior?

Thanks,
Joe T

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>>Or would you recommend I chose a different manufacturer?  After all
>>the 0.18mm requirement seems to imply that boards designed even with
>>PCB's default settings won't be producable.
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>8 is pretty good.  I've seen 6, but not less, in prototype deals.
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