Text rendered at half the requested thickness

Bug #845466 reported by dima kogan
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Bug Description

When text is present in a pcb (such as in a silkscreen), the thickness is half of that given in the SymbolLine[] of the Symbol[] block. I.e. if the SymbolLine says the text lines are 12mils wide, the result will be only 6 mils wide. This was done purposely in 2003 by DJ Delorie in commit 66592387176ba2578dfc14023a6fe49226f3a3df. Do we really want to be doing this? It doesn't really make sense to treat the text line thicknesses differently than other thicknesses (such as those of traces, say). If we want thinner text lines, we can specify those in the symbols themselves. I'm including a patch that removes this factor of 1/2.

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dima kogan (pjhhh3o25) wrote :
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DJ Delorie (djdelorie) wrote :

If we change this now, all existing boards will suddenly have thicker text.

Also, please include a patch (or script) to adjust the font to compensate.

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Bert Timmerman (bert-timmerman) wrote :

Hi,

Patch 0001-* is outdated because the code for low level drawing of text was moved to another file.

See attached revised patch 1001-*.

The issue of the font change still stands.

Kind regards,

Bert Timmerman.

Traumflug (mah-jump-ing)
Changed in geda-project:
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Confirmed
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