I really think it is too large in printout. You may compare a recent printout from gEDA 1.6.1 at
http://www.ssalewski.de/tmp/AmplifierCh1.pdf with old 1.4.3 printout at http://www.ssalewski.de/AmplifierCh1.pdf Whenever possible, we should have access at runtime to default screen and printout font size. Best regards Stefan Salewski On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 14:05 +0000, Peter Clifton wrote: > On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 15:48 +0200, Duncan Drennan wrote: > > Hi, > > > > In geda 1.6.0 the font scaling has changed - is there a way to set the > > font scaling differently? Maybe in a gschemrc file, or does it require > > a recompile? > > Recompile, sorry. See libgeda/src/o_text_basic.c > > Search: > > #define GEDA_FONT_FACTOR 1.3 > > You probably want it "1.0" > > > > A brief background to the question: > > > > Yes, obviously the on screen font has changed significantly due to the > > new font rendering, which is great, but what has also happened is that > > the scaling in the font of a .ps file has also changed. > > The on-screen scaling ought not to have changed (much), as the scaling > factor above was designed to match (as closely as possible), the height > of the old gEDA font. > > It does mean that postscript output has seen its font size increase (by > a factor of x1.3). Sometimes I still think I made the wrong decision in > doing it that way. > > The choice was either smaller on-screen fonts compared to pre gEDA > 1.6.0, or try to match on-screen - and increase the postscript output > size. > > I really wish I'd fixed 1-1, and just shrunk the on-screen rendering > now. Unfortunately, this isn't something we can easily change back - as > consistency is good. > > Technically, it "could" go in a 1.6.1 update - but I suspect there would > be a lot of (valid) opposition to that, since it isn't really a "bug > fix" per-se. > > > Pre-cairo/pango the .ps font was significantly smaller than the > > on-screen font, and (IMO) scaled as I would expect it to be. In the > > dev versions 1.5.4 the on screen font matched the old .ps font scaling > > (and .ps font scaling remained consistent). In 1.6.0 it seems the > > decision was to try to approximate the old on screen font size (I can > > imagine some reasons for this - namely symbol library consistency), > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > Got it in one there. > > > but this has changed the output font size. The change has "broken" of > > my schematics and symbols (my issue, not gEDA's - that's what happens > > when you work with a dev version). I prefer the old scaling, and would > > like to know what I need to change to build it as I would like. It > > would obviously be very nice if this was just a gschemrc setting... > > I avoided making if configurable deliberately - since it adds yet > another variable in the already confusing array of settings. > > One thing I'm absolutely against is introducing separate on-screen, and > output scalings. gschem is WYSIWYG, and something I think we want to > keep. > > I'm not violently opposed to adding a setting for the scaling factor - > but I'd really prefer it wasn't necessary. > > > FYI I am working with the win32 builds. > > Ok, cool - glad to hear they are working for you. > > Best wishes, > > Peter C. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > geda-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
