On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Peter Clifton<[email protected]> wrote: > Any objections to removing the 0,90,180,270 limits to rotated text? > > http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~pcjc2/geda/screenshots/gschem_rotated_text.png > > Need to teach the print output to handle it of course, but that > shouldn't be too hard. > > The only grief comes with the currently magic behaviour at 180 degrees, > which basically resets to 0 degrees rotation, and flips the anchor point > to the opposite corner of the text box. > > I'm thinking that it should be possible to seamlessly transform any old > schematic which used a 180 degree rotation on load (based on file-format > version number). > > Well when ever making symbols i have the fun task of rotating then flipping and whatnot to get the anchor exactly where I wanted it. It's a PAIN I rather have left right and center justified and top middle bottom alignment as an option to the text field with out "automatic" is this what you meant.......
> > Font sizes give some grief as well. It would be nice if the on-screen > font size matched the print font - which means that I drop the magic > constant in o_text.c to "1.0" - matching the font's size in points to > the requested font size in the file-format. (The old gEDA font is about > 1.3x taller than it claims to be). > I say have an option that would be never, ask, always, the bump up for old files based on version number. what would the save behavior be? > Since auto-magically bumping people's text sizes on load (which will no > doubt include some rounding), seems like an "evil" thing to do, I'm > considering the idea of adding a couple of adjustment processes: > > 1. Within gschem - possibly via some nasty popup dialog / wizard when > you load an old file. > > 2. Command line based - so old designs can be (if desired) batch > updated. > > > Or.. we could just declare that we don't really care about updating > users' schematics. In any case, I'm tempted to bump the shipped symbol > library font sizes - to give consistent before/after on-screen > rendering. > > Or.. do we accept the on-screen shrinkage, and place greater value on > consistency of .ps printed output from existing schematics? > > When working with old files on newer gschems what do we do, save an edited old schematic? _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
