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[Lorenzo Marcantonio <l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 12:04:47AM -0800, Henner Zeller wrote:
> Good. Rule of thumb: always avoid widget library printing: it always sucks
> :-)

Not necessarily... wx (among other issues) truncate(d) unnecessarily
coordinates. People trying to do toner-transfer PCBs weren't happy. But,
among the general suckiness, the old windows MFC printing system was
actually pretty good. The fact that Windows uses GDI for both screen and
print of course is a big simplifing argument :D

In kicad the fact that wxDC, ps, PDF, DXF, SVG and Gerber have
*radically* different paint models didn't help (yes, you can actually
ask for a schematic plotted in gerber. I'm quite proud of it :P:P:P).
BTW you also can ask for metric gerbers if someone want to hack the
print dialog. Could help for rounding issue (failed clearances in
postprocessors) due to conversion.

> Uh. Sounds like a nice refactoring opportunity. I will have a look once I

Did something on pcbnew, many things remains on eeschema, if someone else
didn't do it in the meantime.

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