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Subject: [geda-user] Best way to make grid visible during print or export in gschem
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Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 13:54:55 +0300
From: Anton Dubniak <twister AT tfsoft DOT org DOT ua>
Organization: TFSoft
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Greetings,

I need to get my schematics in vector format (svg or eps) with a visible 
mesh grid. As far as I know, this is not possible without modifying the 
sources (am I wrong?). So, I conducted a mini-investigation and figured 
out that grid drawing functions is a part of gschem GUI. They are absent 
in gaf tool and libgedacairo.

Right now I solved my problem quickly and dirty by copying 
draw_mesh_grid_region() and draw_mesh() from gschem/x_grid.c to 
gaf/export.c and calling them from gaf's export_draw_page(). But code 
duplication is the bad thing to do.

So, my question is: if visible grid in exported documents is a nice 
feature to have, where is the right place for grid drawing functions?

Thanks

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Best regards,
Anton Dubniak (twister AT tfsoft DOT org DOT ua)