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On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 12:22:21PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
> 
> > This drawing space clipping means it's often clumsy to edit symbols
> > which are near the origin.  If you want to draw something on the
> > left or the bottom of a symbol, expanding it that direction,
> > you have to 'et 2000', do the drawing, then 'et 0' before saving.
> 
> Perhaps someone could work on letting gschem pan beyond the origin?
> We ended up doing that for PCB because of edge effects too.

Speaking of edges, there may be a bug in arc bounding box
computations, because I've recently been unable to move
arcs close to the edge of the board, but I could draw them!

	Gabriel