print preview

I'm frustrated. I been using Librecad for over a year, and finally using for work. I can print PDFs and send them to customers but cant make a shop drawing with it. When I hit print preview the object appears centered in the viewport. I go to the scale selection and no matter what scale I choose the view port shrinks to .5"x.75", and it jumps off the object then when I hit center to page the little viewport centers on the object. Do I have something set wrong, or do i blame it on microsoft, which is what I normally do.

Hi bob,

First, please try our latest stable releases:

https://github.com/LibreCAD/LibreCAD/releases/tag/v2.2.1.4

Or the latest release branch build:

https://github.com/LibreCAD/LibreCAD/releases/tag/2.2.1-latest

I don't quite get the issue from what you described.

Did you set your drawing units and paper size correctly? (Options > Current Drawing Options, Paper > Format, Units > Main Units).

Did you adjust scale and center in Print Preview?

If it still doesn't work as intended, please upload a minimum dxf (if dxf specific), and some screenshots to show the issue.

You may also test LibreCAD in Linux (Windows WSL is okay), or macOS, to see whether it's OS specific.

bob schwartz wrote

I'm frustrated. I been using Librecad for over a year, and finally using for work. I can print PDFs and send them to customers but cant make a shop drawing with it. When I hit print preview the object appears centered in the viewport. I go to the scale selection and no matter what scale I choose the view port shrinks to .5"x.75", and it jumps off the object then when I hit center to page the little viewport centers on the object. Do I have something set wrong, or do i blame it on microsoft, which is what I normally do.