X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Message-ID: <1442845842.2167.27.camel@ssalewski.de> Subject: [geda-user] gschem, best size of symbols and text? From: Stefan Salewski To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2015 16:30:42 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.16.5 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com There was really much activity on this list recently :-) Unfortunately that was much more than I could read... What do you think about gschems symbol and text size? Is it optimal? I can remember that some people complained that symbols are too large some years ago. I did not understood it that time, because generally symbols are scaled, so one can use a larger title block. But now I get the feeling that basic symbols (resistor, capacitor, ...) are indeed too large compared to the default 100 grid size. Resistor is 900 units in length, so for default 100 grid it can be placed in 9 steps on his own area. Or, compared to the symbol size, default 100 grid is too small. Making 200 grid the default does not work well, because 900 is odd. And indeed I think that 100 is a nice default grid size. So I consider shrinking the basic symbols. For screen display, I prefer 10 units for general line width, and currently I like 600 units for total resistor length. See http://ssalewski.de/PetEd.html.en topmos t picture. I think these smaller symbols really look cleaner with 100 grid. Movement of symbols occurs in larger steps, so general clean placement is easier. For PDF and printout I would use the same size, but smaller line width. And what do you think about default text size in relation to symbols? Generally text size is not really important, because it can be arbitrary scaled all the time, but a nice default is always good. Note: On that picture you can see the 9 gray position marker crosses which are displayed when mouse pointer hovers over a text element. You can press MMB over one of them to change alignment of text. I like it.