Plotting a Circuit
1. To make a hardcopy plot of your circuit, press "p" or select
Plotting in the Misc menu. You get a screen with an (admittedly
ugly) view of what your circuit will look like on paper.
2. To zoom in on an area, just use the mouse to sweep out a rectangle
around that area. Press Zoom out to return to viewing the
full circuit. The Zoom feature uses "markers," which are little
red brackets that show up in the circuit diagram. You can move
the markers around in circuit-editing mode, too, and turn them
on or off with the Markers command in Frills.
3. Touch Config to configure the plotter. You can change the
font that is used for labels (there is a wide selection of fonts
available, though most of them are silly). You can select how
the plot will be oriented on paper (default is to let LOG choose
the orientation to make it come out as large as possible). You
can set the size of the paper if your plotter is too primitive
to know that for itself. (For the laser printer, the printer
always determines the paper size itself.)
4. Touch Options to configure the circuit-diagram plot. Here you can
adjust the text sizes, border and box styles, solder dot size and
line width. The Gate text limit specifies the minimum size of gate
text attributes to display on the screen. Gates have a default text
size of 50, set in loged, so by default they are not displayed.
5. When you are all ready press File and away it goes, to the system
Postscript printer. The PLOT button used to control pen plotters
directly, but now a better way of using pen plotters involves
plotting into a file (see 6 below) using HPGL. [NOTE: The Unix
version is not able to drive pen-plotters directly.]
6. You can also plot into a PostScript file, for inclusion, say, in
a TeX document. Set the file name in Config, then touch File.
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