X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 18:22:14 +0200 (CEST) From: Roland Lutz To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: [geda-user] Apollon the technical thread In-Reply-To: <1442935680.677.19.camel@ssalewski.de> Message-ID: References: <20150921001659 DOT 0c211170 AT jive DOT levalinux DOT org> <55FF3F4B DOT 8000406 AT jump-ing DOT de>

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<1442935680 DOT 677 DOT 19 DOT camel AT ssalewski DOT de> User-Agent: Alpine 2.11 (DEB 23 2013-08-11) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Tue, 22 Sep 2015, Stefan Salewski wrote: > Personally I was never happy with the PCB font elements stored inside > of the PCB files. For small PCBs the font occupies more space in the > PCB file than the real layout. I would try to avoid that. There's good reason for the font to be stored in the PCB file, the same reason why element contents are stored in the PCB file: environment changes should never alter the contents of a layout. While this is generally not such a big problem with schematics as changes are more visible (though it is an annoyance, and I've tried to come up with a good solution for some time), it can be fatal if this happens in a layout. Think of a difference in kerning which results in a copper letter being moved a slight bit, causing a short. Or, even more subtle, protruding into some object's clearance, causing a polygon not to cover an area which it is supposed to cover. This kind of things should never happen.