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Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 09:02:29 -0700
From: Andrew Poelstra <asp11 AT sfu DOT ca>
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] Rat Thickness and Trace Transparency in Updated PCB;
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On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 12:42:51AM -0400, Gus Fantanas wrote:
> I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, which updated gEDA.
> Everything works well except a couple of minor annoyances.  I may be
> doing something wrong.  Here are my questions:
> 
> 1.  I tried to change the default rat thickness in PCB by including
> the line 'rat-thickness = 2' in the file '~/.pcb/preferences',
> according to the online documentation (which may be out of date?).
> This works as expected the first time I start PCB after that file
> edit, but when I quit PCB, that line seems to disappear!  If I don't
> re-edit '~/.pcb/prefernces', next time I start PCB the rats have
> their default thickness.
>


To add to DJ's comment:


Just putting '2', pcb will read it as 2nm. (This has been fixed by commit
8b59dba in February, to read anything < 100 as a pixel count, not a measure,
but this change hasn't made it to release. Nor has the 'px' unit suffix.)

And unless you're zoomed -very- far in, you won't see a 2nm line.

 
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