Greetings all; As an old (73), semi-retired broadcast engineer, I thought maybe I'd improve the output format of my doodles when I'm building something as I'm still on staff for transmitter stuff and probably will be till I fall over.
Mentally rigging up some remote control circuitry last night, I used gschem to draw up a few functions, attempting to sequence and isolate a 50+ year old GE transmitters control with that of a 35 year old Harris that I'm rigging for use as a driver for the GE's final amplifier. I cannot get the tubes the GE uses in the medium power stages anymore as Eimac quit making them back in the 1980 time frame, and the last pair of 4-1000's on the planet is in it and getting tired now. Complaint #1 is that the diode bridge symbol is about 1/8th the area of a landscape letter page, occupying many times the real estate that the DPDT relay symbol occupies. And for a newbie, no obvious way to scale it or them to a more pleasing and usable size. Did I miss it in my menu searches? Complaint #2 is that while I can see the connection dots in color on screen, they are not nearly so obvious when printed in black & white, and it would be very handy if the much older ')' style of non-connecting crossover symbol was available, but again I couldn't find it. I assume there is a symbol editor too, but I didn't look very hard for it. For what I wanted to do, it would have been not only nice, but also intuitive, if a symbol when selected and floating, ready to place, would be zoomable with the mouse wheel in order to scale it for a more usable, pleasing size. As it worked, the mouse wheel still zooms the main page, not the symbol other than it followed the main pages size changes too. Complaint #3, and minor, is that the printout is B&W. Even when fed to a color capable printer. Overall, the gEDA suite has come quite a ways since I first looked at it several years ago, and a tip of the hat in the coders direction from me as a thank you gesture is offered. Comments anyone? -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The man on tops walks a lonely street; the "chain" of command is often a noose. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
