Hi
I have worked some time at a power plant designing and drawing circuit diagrams for control systems. In this and presumably many other business it is very important to stick to standards. My bible during this time was IEC-61082, a standard that regulates basically every aspect of how to produce and handle electro-technical documentation.
I like EAGLE a great deal because it is possible to create circuit diagrams that fulfill at least the important parts of this standard rather easily. One requirement that schematics made in Eagle always fails is that all the characters in the diagram must come from the font defined by the subsidiary standard ISO-3098.
This is a very legible font which can survive an almost infinite number of runs through a Xerox-machine, a feature that is very important for documentation that need to be archived. I have spent a good deal of time first trying to find a free interpretation of ISO-3098 (font-file) on the Internet and then trying to replace all text in my schematics with it. With very limited success on the latter part I might add.
The good thing however is that I found an open-source project, osifont ( http://code.google.com/p/osifont/ ), that just fills my needs for a free technical font.
My suggestion is that Cadsoft adds this font to the schematic editor of Eagle. Legibility of schematics will increase and the output can be made to comply with IEC-61082. Additionally a more complete set of anchor points (9, 12, or 15) should be available to every text-field, as have been suggested many times before. Any CAD-tool should have the possibility to center text.
Best Regards
Anton Andersson
M.Sc EE
