export image issue

Hello,

using LC 2.0.0 _rc2,
to output a drawing, there is PRINT or EXPORT.

When exporting to any type of image,
- lines of different width look all same width
- scale is not accurate ,

while printing directly works fine (for width and scale).


Is there something I missed in the settings?

Alex

does exporting to SVG work for you?

Alex wrote

Hello,

using LC 2.0.0 _rc2,
to output a drawing, there is PRINT or EXPORT.

When exporting to any type of image,
- lines of different width look all same width
- scale is not accurate ,

while printing directly works fine (for width and scale).


Is there something I missed in the settings?

Alex

Yes, it does... but not as precisely as when printed from LC.

This is the test:
with units set to centimeters, draw a line of 100.
Set paper size to A4 and the scale to 1:10.

Control Print, the resulting line on A4 paper realy measures 10cm. OK!

However, if instead you export (to svg ), and open the resulting file (with GIMP for example), the image size does'nt match, nor does the printing.

I do not undestand how to handle the settings in the export dialog window.

The purpose of this is to convert drawings eventually to  accurate PDF, which is the file type for the A2/ A0 print shop.

I reviewed the code for image exporting, DPI is not used, seems to be a bug.

I will try to fix this bug, and hopefully, we will add more features to make SVG a useful CAD format.

Dongxu

Maybe this point is related: in exported images, line widths are not rendered.

Other image types than SVG do also have these problems.

Alex