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[Vesa Solonen <vesa.solonen@xxxxxxxx>]

I'm wondering what's the functionality of 'Force A4 output' in the plot 
dialog? What it currently (3746) does is scaling by a factor of 1.415... 
the last digit may be 4 as well. The measurement is done using Inkscape 
as a ruler on the plots. The factor is suspiciously close to the aspect 
ratio of A paper size system, so I suspect a bug.

Could someone confirm?

Also some other scaling anomalies, like 5% under size print out from a 
PDF conversion (ps2pdf) is something to check. That turned out to be the 
case when PDF was produced on Linux and printed on Windows. Using some 
Adobe tool on Mac OS X resulted in a correct size.

I remember Lorenzo working on a native PDF output for schematics, but 
what's the case for layouts? Is there something that keeps it from being 
merged in or is it just not yet in the plot dialog?

-Vesa