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Which version of PCGen are you using?
Scale mail is medium armor, which slows your speed to 20'. The slowed speed gives a -4 penalty to jump. That's probably where the difference is.
PCGen usually knows the rules better than I do. There are always bugs to work out, though.
Awesome! Glad you were able to start a new thread (I was going to do so for you, if you didn't figure out how).
((Also, love Glen Cook's series. Nice new name!))
Okay, so, looking up the acrobatics rules, it looks like Doug Limmer got it right.
Creatures with a base land speed above 30 feet receive a +4 racial bonus on Acrobatics checks made to jump for every 10 feet of their speed above 30 feet. Creatures with a base land speed below 30 feet receive a –4 racial bonus on Acrobatics checks made to jump for every 10 feet of their speed below 30 feet.
Since the armor slows you down, that applies the slower penalty as well as the acp* that you'd normally be taking.
Still, it looks off it's -4 (acp scale), -2 (acp shield), -4 (20 ft. land speed), +1 (dexterity), -0 ("light" load, I'm guessing?) = -9.
Hm...
EDIT: Ah, right, actually, I see what I was doing wrong - your misc. penalty was -10, not your over-all modifier. Yeah, without factoring in your ability modifier, the misc. penalty is correct. If you factor in your DEX, your check should be -9, unless you have a rank (dropping your total to -8). If you were doing Acrobatics other than jumping, I think your misc. penalty would be -6 instead, yeah? Anyway, hope this helps!
* I use "acp" as short-hand for "armor check penalty" because it's a lot easier to type! :D