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Re: Cramming a "D"-size drawing into an "A"-size bag
Subject:Re: Cramming a "D"-size drawing into an "A"-size bag From:Robert Plamondon <robert -at- PLAMONDON -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 28 Jan 1998 09:53:50 -0800
The problem with viewing schematics on-line is that displays
has far too little resolution for complex diagrams. If you zoom
in, you don't have enough context. If you zoom out, you don't
have enough detail.
A company that wants to include schematics with PDF-format
on-line documentation should design the schematics for a normal
(8.5x11" or whatever) page size from the beginning. A company
I once worked for went from "D"-size hand-drawn schematics to
"B"-size (11x17") CAD-based schematics and finally to "A"-size
(8.5x11") CAD-based schematics because the larger paper size
was such a nightmare -- there was only one printer in the
company that could handle paper that large, and it was in the
other building and up a flight of stairs from many of the
engineers.
But you can't wave a magic wand and make your big diagrams
little. Diagrams are generally on the verge of overflowing
their space in any event. Shrinking them tends to make them
unintelligible. And I've never seen an EDA system
that showed schematics clearly enough that you didn't feel
compelled to print them out instead.
-- Robert
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