>
> Is there any situation where we might want to mark an explicit "print
>
area" and have it persist on the schematic as some kind of object on the
> page? - Peter Clifton
>
Instead of persisting, we could just have a big rectangle move around the
main page in addition to the little rectangle on the mini-preview, so that
there is a large view of exactly what would go in the file. The big
rectangle would only persist whilst the write image dialog was open
therefore not having the clutter of another tool for print area.

> Be warned that *just* doing the colour map selector is something that will
> require careful design work and getting some familiarity with gEDA's
> configuration mechanism, due to the way that colour management is
> implemented
> internally to libgeda. - Peter Brett
>
The most Straightforward method for doing this would only allow saving
images in the specified color map.  All the hard work would already be done,
because at some point, the schematic already gets put together into data
suitable for writing to an image... just in black and green. A non-default
colormap, would only modify this local data after its been gathered, so I
don't think this would get into the deeer arts of gEDA's configuration
mechanism.

>   I'd personally like something a bit like the current print dialog -- the
> export controls are lost relative to the file selector part of the dialog
> box.- Peter Brett

So put the resolution selector, the colormap selector,  the mini-preview, in
a seperate dialog box, with a button that says "Ok" before taking you to the
cleaned location dialog box?
Nate

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