How is everyone printing to .pdf?

First and foremost this is a great program, and thank you everyone who has worked on it. I will definitely be donating at the end of the month. I have read the topics here and the Help file and do not see an answer to this (but maybe I overlooked it- if so I apologize).

While I admit that I am still a noob (and struggling to remember my engineering cad classes from a decade ago that I sadly haven't used since), I simply cannot figure out how to "print to PDF" or export to PDF, or any way of getting my drawings to a (convenient) PDF file.  I am using this both in Ubuntu (11.10 now) on my personal computers, and a Windows XP desktop at work (which is mainly where I need to export to PDF from).

My (windows) version of LibreCAD is 1.0.0rc3 compiled on Sept. 18th 2011. My work computer (dinosaur) is Windows XP Professional 2002 SP3.

I am sure this is something dumb that I am just overlooking, but I appreciate any guidance anyone can offer...

Thanks,
Steve

On 20/10/2011 16:15, smknipe [via LibreCAD] wrote:

 >
 > ...
 >
 > since), I simply cannot figure out how to "print to PDF" or export to
 > PDF, or any way of getting my drawings to a (convenient) PDF file. I
 > am
 > using this both in Ubuntu (11.10 now) on my personal computers, and a
 > Windows XP desktop at work (which is mainly where I need to export to
 > PDF from).
 >
 > My (windows) version of LibreCAD is 1.0.0rc3 compiled on Sept. 18th
 > 2011. My work computer (dinosaur) is Windows XP Professional 2002 SP3.
 >
 > ...
 >

Hello Steve,

- I also use LibreCAD on a Windows XP professional computer.

- Since LibreCAD does not support export to PDF format, I
   use "PDFCreator" (a PDF virtual Printer), and this is
   working well.

- "PDFCreator" is an OpenSource project located here:

        http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/


Claude

For your Ubuntu machine you can install cups-pdf. This should be in the repos. Once installed you can print like you normally would to a printer. Choose this from the printer list and it will print a pdf file.

@Claude thanks for the quick reply, I'll try that when I get in tomorrow morning.

@Chad, thank you! I'll try that tonight...

I have cups-pdf installed on an old laptop running debian at home, so all computers at home can print to PDF by cups server.

cups is nice, as far as I can safely enable anonymous access

Thank you everyone, PDFCreator and Cups are both working great! Now just to mind my scales (there is an awesome post in another thread about that but it is in Metric base units and we deal in Imperial), and figure out how to make my lines and text bolder at printing scale (I have set the pen even up to the maximum thickness and the lines are still very thin appearing)- but that gives me something to play with!

Thank you everyone again for such a great project

Steve

On 21/10/2011 11:40, smknipe [via LibreCAD] wrote:

 >
 > Thank you everyone, PDFCreator and Cups are both working great! Now
 > just
 > to mind my scales (there is an awesome post in another thread about
 > that
 > but it is in Metric base units and we deal in Imperial), and figure
 > out
 > how to make my lines and text bolder at printing scale (I have set
 > the
 > pen even up to the maximum thickness and the lines are still very
 > thin
 > appearing)- but that gives me something to play with!
 >

- Hello Steve,

- I am afraid that text thickness can not be modified in LibreCAD.
   LibreCAD support only text entity created using vector fonts;
   and thus, text entities have no thickness (always 0 thickness).
   However, some text fonts have complex shapes that simulate
   more or less text thickness.  This is the case for the
   "romant" font.

- Line thickness can be modified using "Modify"->"Properties",
   in the LibreCAD menu.

- If you find a bug or want a new feature for LibreCAD, you
   can fill bug reports here:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=342582&atid=1433844

   ... Or feature requests here:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=342582&atid=1433847


Claude

Oh wow, yet again, thank you Claude! Yeah I have been using the Romant font for that reason. I'll play with the line thickness next time I have to draw something up quickly.

Thanks again!