Hi, I was looking in to helping the library team by changing the default kicad text size to 50 mils rather than the current 60 mils.
Well, I discovered that the s-expr formatter and parser omits certain text settings if they are the default. I assume this is to make kicad files smaller which yay, but it means that we basically can't change the default text size without breaking backwards compatibility. Huge, resounding BOOOOO. What I would like to request is that we remove the bit of code that omits text size and thickness if they are default. This increases file size by about 40ish chars/bytes. I think it is reasonable to still omit bold, italic, justification, and whether the text is hidden or not. On a fairly dense board (thanks Andrew Zonenberg) there are about 1.3k fp_text's so this would theoretically add ~50kB to a several MB file. Except it doesn't add nearly that much, because the kicad library doesn't use the current default size anyways. So for a large portion of text this code is useless anyways. Offending code is in common/eda_text.cpp:407 Thoughts? Jon
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