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Re: [patch] GAL pixel alignment

 

Le 11/02/2019 à 11:55, John Beard a écrit :
> Hi Tom,
> 
> Thanks for looking at this - it's one of the last visible issues in
> the new Eeschema GAL stuff that I notice regularly.
> 
> This appears to work well on Arch/i3.
> 
> I'd be in favour of at least attempting to get it into 5.1, as I think
> the current eeschema look is likely to cause at least some moaning
> upon general release (though I personally would be prepared to live
> with it for the rest of 5.1, it's a long slog to v6).
> 
> *Tiny* nit-pick: junction circles seem to sometimes round down and
> left, so when zoomed-out they are noticeably offset from the wire
> junction. But this is not any kind of blocking issue IMO.
> 
> I'm not sure text is dramatically improved here: it's certainly less
> fuzzy, but it's more distorted (eg. AN0 looks a bit like AND). But I
> don't really mind either.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> John
> 

AFAIK, note "AN0 looks a bit like AND" exists also in legacy mode with
our stroke font.
Could be the price to pay when using integer draw coordinates.

-- 
Jean-Pierre CHARRAS


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