Mail Archives: geda-user/2012/10/17/04:14:05
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 06:16:53PM +0400, Vladimir Zhbanov wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 10:32:27AM +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote:
> ...
> > Why is there a different font for screen and printing, BTW?
> >
> > I sometimes carefully place text (labels, whatever...) carefully to
> > not overlap any other graphic element. With different fonts, and
> > font metrics, this could lead to nasty surprises.
>
> You can find the answer there:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/geda-user AT moria DOT seul DOT org/msg19923.html
>
> Browse the thread and you'll probably find the answers to all your
> questions.
Thanks, I did not remember that thread. Bottom line: any code
that generates graphics and does not use cairo should be
considered legacy and ultimately replaced.
Unfortunately, for example the recent gsch2pdf code relies
on cairo 1.10 at least, which is not yet in debian-stable.
I also think that I hit a bug (probably in libgeda) on a
non-x86 machine: the output pdf scale depends on the directory
in which symbols are found. It looks like a wild pointer/memory
corruption, but I won't be able to debug more before early
November.
Gabriel
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