Posted by Irucka on
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I have a PDF of a scale drawing (at 1 inch = 50 feet) that I exported as a PNG using The GIMP. I imported the PNG image into LibreCAD so that I could create a 10 foot buffer around some objects on the scale drawing. I then wanted to calculate the buffer area.

Thus, I was trying to set the engineering scale at 1 inch = 50 feet & also set the dimensions of the page in LibreCAD.

Thank you.

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1 inch = 50 feet makes 1:600. Just type this into the scale box in Print Preview and confirm with Enter.
Or is your question how to properly import a .png image from a pdf or a scan of a real paper plan?

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