LibreCAD - Re: Print a precise scale ?

Re: Print a precise scale ?

Posted by Lamy on Sep 03, 2014; 9:31pm
URL: https://forum.librecad.org/Print-a-precise-scale-tp5710363p5710393.html

Hello,

(Sorry for such a late awnser !)

Quite a difficult question to design a "reasonable GUI" ! (It is par of my job, do you know ?)

My opinion is : (as a user point of vew)

1/ For your point 1 : ad to the "print" icon, a "print..." one, (replacing the "preview" one) and, in it: to propose : "print", "prevew", "partial print".

For the 3 others : add a sheet to the menu Edition->Draw préférences : Page, Unit, ...(...), named "Print option".

And, in these "Print Options" to define : the scale, the paper/drawing coordinates, and a center/base point, with defaults values.

What do you think of it ?

Lamy

2014-09-01 15:39 GMT+02:00 dxli [via LibreCAD] <[hidden email]>:

No, it is after the 2.0.5 release, as I only added the implementation as a result of this discussion.

If you are windows, you may still try to follow our wiki to build LibreCAD from source, given you have enough disk space for Qt, boost, as well as LibreCAD.

We should set up a way to provide nightly builds for Windows and OS/X

Another question, since you understand this printing feature better, could you help designing a reasonable GUI feature from your side? We may add,

1, page rectangle position (say, from (1,1) to (10, 15), only the portion for 1 < x < 10 and 1 < y < 15 will be scaled to fit paper margin to be printed);
2, paper/drawing coordinates, to specify coordinates in paper or graph scale;
3, center/base point, a point to locate printout center;
4, scale/ratio;

Let's try to make it simple and easy for end users.

Thanks!

Lamy wrote

Many tnanks to you.
As I understand : some commands are usefull to manage the printvew, but are not in the basic installation, correct ?
I think for the moment it will be to complicated for me to update with the latest version (My PC is very instable and I a not very at ease with updating with ".git" ...) so I will try later.
Are these options included in the latest (August 2014 ?) version ?
Thanks.

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