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If it's up to me, the CircuitLab schematics can be somewhat smaller. See this example: http://electronics.stackexchange.com/q/59387/17592.

Can the schematics be scaled to a smaller size when it isn't a large circuit?

If you export as .PNG then you can choose:

Desired PNG width? (pixels)

Others you can easily resize in Gimp etc., etc.,

Thanks and sorry. I'll explain why I asked this.

Recently a CircuitLab tool was added to the Electrical Engineering StackExchange. Some of the schematics are too large there because that tool doesn't have such an option. I asked a question about that here and it was suggested to ask it here as it looked to be a CircuitLab-wide feature-request.

Sorry again and thanks for your reply.

My answer above is still valid.

Whoever is responsible for exporting the .png image and posting it on their embedded version of the imgur site, i.e:

http://i.stack.imgur.com/020Wv.png

needs to select the PNG width on CircuitLabs .PNG export option:

Desired PNG width? (pixels)

to reduce the size of the image before they upload it to imgur.

The link below the picture:

http://electronics.stackexchange.com/plugins/schematics?image=http%3a%2f%2fi.stack.imgur.com%2f020Wv.png

then opens the circuit:

https://www.circuitlab.com/editor/#?id=vu7k6v

directly in the CircuitLab Editor.

If the user then clicks on the title of the circuit in the top right of the editor window, they can then open the "home" page for the circuit:

https://www.circuitlab.com/circuit/vu7k6v/editor_embed-circuit-stackexchange-2013-02-28/

If the images are the wrong size on the StackExchange site then it is the responsibility of whoever posts them there to understand how to use CL's tools. It is not the responsibility of CL.

Although it may seem that there might be a case for asking CL to make the default width for a PNG export to be < 1024, the problem then will be all those users who want the higher resolution default setting maybe because their circuits are more complex and a lower resolution renders them unreadable.

:)

I understand that, but....

Why can't the tool calculate the width needed to make the exported image readable and small enough? It would be an enormous improvement to the user's experience, I think.

But on the Electronics Meta weiy already says it's on the list for the next release :-)