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Subject:	Re: [geda-user] pcb tutorial: silkscreen text
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Colin D Bennett wrote:
: On Fri, 19 Oct 2012 18:12:02 +0200
: Jan Kasprzak <kas AT fi DOT muni DOT cz> wrote:
: 
: > Hello,
: > 
: > I am new to gEDA, and I am trying to go through the pcb tutorial
: > at http://www.delorie.com/pcb/docs/gs/gs.html
: > I am now trying to draw a LED board according to section 4.1. I
: > have troubles drawing the text on the silkscreen layer. From the
: > tutorial:
: >...
: > Now when I select the Text tool, click on the board, the pop-up
: > dialog is displayed. I enter some text and click OK, but the
: > problem is that I can't see the just-entered text anywhere on the
: > board.
: 
: Hi Yenya,
: 
: Welcome to gEDA!
: 
: The text was just WAY too big, about 20 - 40 times larger than
: normal text.  Going into the preferences and changing the board
: size to 30000 mil x 10000 mil allows you to see the text.
: --> See attached: board-enlarged-to-show-enormous-text.pcb

	Colin, you're right! I wonder whether the text size is (can be made)
visible somewhere in the main window?

: I don't know why the text is so large?  Maybe your cat took a nap
: on the "s" key before you used the text tool to create the
: text ... :-)

	Maybe. I don't know. I have opened the same pcb file
on a different computer, and the default text size is sane there.

: I looked at the .pcb file (it is really awesome that it
: is plain text and human parseable) and saw that the "scale" was
: 5744, where a more reasonable scale is about 150 to 250.  (This is
: percent of default font size, which is about 40 mils.)
: 
: So, I just edited the .pcb file with a text editor and changed the
: scale values for the Text entities and then they were displayed.
: 
: --> See attached: board-normal-size-text.pcb

	Thanks!

-Yenya

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