Posted by rappel on Oct 15, 2018; 11:03pm
URL: https://forum.librecad.org/Printing-print-to-file-blank-printing-tp5716525.html

Finally getting to the point where I am proficient enough in use of LibreCAD to do some useful (for me) stuff. However in order for this I need to print.
There are clearly a few minor issues around printing, judging from some threads here. Unfortunately I haven't come across anything that explains the couple of issues I have. Any pointers gratefully accepted.

I'm using LibreCAD on Win 7.

1) Often, when I try to print something for the first time after I have opened a drawing I get blank output. I think this is related to the fact that I have an untitled drawing open (it's automatically there when you start the program), it happens to be the first and for some reason printing is defaulting to print this drawing. I cam to this conclusion because when I close this drawing printing/print preview always goes back to the drawing that I was last editing and trying to print. Anyone else noticed similar? Any other way round this?

2) Every time I print the "print to file" box is checked. Doesn't matter what printer is default etc. Is there anywhere I can default this to no? Is it supposed to default to this? 99% of the time one would normally want to print to a physical printer (or perhaps a PDF printer driver under Windows).

Thanks.