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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Not until the v6 release.  There just was not enough time to work on the 
new file formats during the v5 cycle.

On 02/02/2018 08:15 AM, Augusto Fraga Giachero wrote:
> Hi Wayne,
>
> This means that this will be addressed after the Kicad 5 release?
>
> Thanks,
> Augusto Fraga Giachero.
>
> On 30-01-2018 14:15, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> > Augusto,
> >
> > Most of this is going to be addressed during the next development cycle
> > when the new symbol library and schematic file format are implemented.
> > At the moment, there is no plan at this time to allow for resizing
> > symbols in schematics.  Since symbols will be embedded in the schematic,
> > resizing will be possible.  Thank you for your input.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Wayne
> >
> > On 1/30/2018 10:01 AM, Augusto Fraga Giachero wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I've been designing schematics with some stm32 parts using the standard
> > > Kicad libraries, and a lot of these microcontrollers has 10+ functions
> > > multiplexed in each I/O pin. In the standard library the symbols
> > > displays all possible configurations available to each pin, I understand
> > > the motivation of this choice (not having to refer to the datasheet
> > > every time you want choose an I/O for some specific functionality), but
> > > this results in very large symbols occupying the page.
> > >
> > > I've come with a idea (which probably isn't new) to deal with this 
> > > problem:
> > > * You can select what functions you will use from a list for each pin
> > > and only that will be displayed in the schematic;
> > > * You can then resize the symbol accordingly directly in the schematic;
> > > * While this wouldn't require any modification to the library symbol
> > > file format as the description string of each pin already carries all
> > > the necessary information, the .sch file format would probably be
> > > changed and would not have backwards compatibility.
> > >
> > > This may not be easy to implement as with the way eeschema handles
> > > symbols today and the issues I've cited above, I would like hear about
> > > your suggestions.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Augusto Fraga Giachero.
> > >
> > >
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