Changing fonts

There is no need for proportional fonts to make pdf's searchable, so

this argument is void. I have seen raw scanned pdf's searchable.

I'm not sure how this is done, but I would think its some kind of

metadata. Maybe this link is useful:

http://searchable-pdf.com/content.php?lang=en&c=61

 

HI Morten,

I'm sure that in general you are correct. However, as far as EAGLE's

current implementation proportional fonts are the only ones that are

searchable in a PDF.

I agree that you shouldn't have to use a font because it's the only

thing that make a PDF searchable.

hth,

Best Regards,

Jorge Garcia

Tilmann Reh wrote on Wed, 04 November 2015 02:59

A nice looking built-in vector font is the only good solution

Not really.  Simply allowing us to define our own font is another way,

which I'd prefer.  Eagle can default to the existing font.

Quote:

It shouldn't be too much work to implement Hershey as fourth font.

I'd actually rather they didn't.  Then we'll end up with something else

that's not quite what we want in some instances, but with once again no way

to address it.  Make the definition of all the characters soft with

commands to define whatever vectors you want per character.  Then we can

all get whatever fonts we like.

For example, I use the Hershey fonts too, mostly.  I've made a few minor

customizations to them, and would like to use them too.  These include

adding the Ohm, micro, and other symbols at known character codes.  Of

course the TEXT command would have to be expanded to allow arbitrary

character codes to be specified.

Writing a program that takes a font definition and generates the Eagle

script to load that into Eagle would be trivial.  People would probably

upload scripts for various fonts, so those that are happy with someone

else's details don't have to do anything beyond run a canned script.

Give me customizability over built-in features!  This way Eagle doesn't

have to include any new font at all, and doesn't need a complicated

interface to manage fonts.  This should actually  be easier on the

developers.

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Given that there are very powerful, standard, anti-aliased fonts built-n to all platforms that are very easy for a developer to use, the font support and in general the readability and look of Eagle is surprisingly bad.   I'm looking at the same schematic in Eagle and one my friend did in ORCad.  Eagle looks like my 1984 MacPlus with bitmapped fonts.   The lines of my triangular op-amps are actually pixelated!

Eagle just doesn't look professional.

Michael Farr wrote:

 

Given that there are very powerful, standard, anti-aliased fonts built-n to all platforms that are very easy for a developer to use, the font support and in general the readability and look of Eagle is surprisingly bad.   I'm looking at the same schematic in Eagle and one my friend did in ORCad.  Eagle looks like my 1984 MacPlus with bitmapped fonts.   The lines of my triangular op-amps are actually pixelated!

 

Eagle just doesn't look professional.

Hi Michael,

What OS are you running and which version of EAGLE? Which font are you using in the schematics? With some tweaking I have managed to get things looking okay, the biggest issue is you need to have the standard ugly vector font in the board or else when you have your boards made the silk screen will likely be a mess.

If you are using OSX and have a Retina display there are also rendering quality issues there as EAGLE doesn't correctly deal with HiDPI displays on OSX yet either, although they have made some improvements in 7.5.2 and I believe they are still working on getting it fixed properly.

Best Regards,

Rachael

Am 17.04.2016 um 11:46 schrieb rachaelp:

Michael Farr wrote:

 

Given that there are very powerful, standard, anti-aliased fonts

built-n to all platforms that are very easy for a developer to use,

the font support and in general the readability and look of Eagle is

surprisingly bad.   I'm looking at the same schematic in Eagle and one

my friend did in ORCad.  Eagle looks like my 1984 MacPlus with

bitmapped fonts.   The lines of my triangular op-amps are actually

pixelated!

 

Eagle just doesn't look professional.

Hi Michael,

 

What OS are you running and which version of EAGLE? Which font are you

using in the schematics? With some tweaking I have managed to get things

looking okay, the biggest issue is you need to have the standard ugly

vector font in the board or else when you have your boards made the silk

screen will likely be a mess.

 

If you are using OSX and have a Retina display there are also rendering

quality issues there as EAGLE doesn't correctly deal with HiDPI displays

on OSX yet either, although they have made some improvements in 7.5.2

and I believe they are still working on getting it fixed properly.

 

Hi,

in the current beta 7.5.4 the problems with the MAC verions with

high resolution diplays should be fixed.

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Am 17.04.2016 um 11:46 schrieb rachaelp:

Michael Farr wrote:

 

Given that there are very powerful, standard, anti-aliased fonts

built-n to all platforms that are very easy for a developer to use,

the font support and in general the readability and look of Eagle is

surprisingly bad.   I'm looking at the same schematic in Eagle and one

my friend did in ORCad.  Eagle looks like my 1984 MacPlus with

bitmapped fonts.   The lines of my triangular op-amps are actually

pixelated!

 

Eagle just doesn't look professional.

Hi Michael,

 

What OS are you running and which version of EAGLE? Which font are you

using in the schematics? With some tweaking I have managed to get things

looking okay, the biggest issue is you need to have the standard ugly

vector font in the board or else when you have your boards made the silk

screen will likely be a mess.

 

If you are using OSX and have a Retina display there are also rendering

quality issues there as EAGLE doesn't correctly deal with HiDPI displays

on OSX yet either, although they have made some improvements in 7.5.2

and I believe they are still working on getting it fixed properly.

 

Hi,

in the current beta 7.5.4 the problems with the MAC verions with

high resolution diplays should be fixed.

--

Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Best regards

Richard Hammerl

  CadSoft Support -- hotline@cadsoft.de

  FAQ: http://www.cadsoft.de/training/faq/

Am 17.04.2016 um 11:46 schrieb rachaelp:

Michael Farr wrote:

 

Given that there are very powerful, standard, anti-aliased fonts

built-n to all platforms that are very easy for a developer to use,

the font support and in general the readability and look of Eagle is

surprisingly bad.   I'm looking at the same schematic in Eagle and one

my friend did in ORCad.  Eagle looks like my 1984 MacPlus with

bitmapped fonts.   The lines of my triangular op-amps are actually

pixelated!

 

Eagle just doesn't look professional.

Hi Michael,

 

What OS are you running and which version of EAGLE? Which font are you

using in the schematics? With some tweaking I have managed to get things

looking okay, the biggest issue is you need to have the standard ugly

vector font in the board or else when you have your boards made the silk

screen will likely be a mess.

 

If you are using OSX and have a Retina display there are also rendering

quality issues there as EAGLE doesn't correctly deal with HiDPI displays

on OSX yet either, although they have made some improvements in 7.5.2

and I believe they are still working on getting it fixed properly.

 

Hi,

in the current beta 7.5.4 the problems with the MAC verions with

high resolution diplays should be fixed.

--

Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Best regards

Richard Hammerl

  CadSoft Support -- hotline@cadsoft.de

  FAQ: http://www.cadsoft.de/training/faq/

Hi Richard,

If the Mac HiDPI resolution issues are fixed this is a big deal for me so will be very happy! Looking on the website I can only see the 7.5.3 beta available. Do you know when 7.5.4 will be available?

Many thanks,

Rachael

Am 22.04.2016 um 11:39 schrieb rachaelp:

Hi Richard,

 

If the Mac HiDPI resolution issues are fixed this is a big deal for me

so will be very happy! Looking on the website I can only see the 7.5.3

beta available. Do you know when 7.5.4 will be available?

 

Many thanks,

 

Rachael

 

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Ahh, sorry. I wrote "the current 7.5.4".... It should be released

next week.

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Am 22.04.2016 um 11:39 schrieb rachaelp:

Hi Richard,

 

If the Mac HiDPI resolution issues are fixed this is a big deal for me

so will be very happy! Looking on the website I can only see the 7.5.3

beta available. Do you know when 7.5.4 will be available?

 

Many thanks,

 

Rachael

 

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Ahh, sorry. I wrote "the current 7.5.4".... It should be released

next week.

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Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Best regards

Richard Hammerl

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