![]() ![]() ![]() As you have found, you need to apply a custom print configuration to get it to display and print nicely. The defaults are apparently set for inch units, so if you are using mm you get a ridiculously small paper size. The print configuration defines the paper size, scale, what to print, etc. The documentation is quite poor but, there is an informative video here. All other programs on my PC work well with CutePDF and MS Print to PDF except Librecad, a sure sign that there's something incomplete under the skin.I had trouble with this too. Makes this program useless until I found the work around to use the A3 size as a proxy for Tabloid. It's frustrating to work on my house design for 3 months and now be unable to print or export to PDF without blank pages, or "printing complete" messages with no "save as" box, or portrait prints that cut off half the drawing even though print preview showed landscape. At least that's where I'd want my dono funding to go towards. Then, and this is the more important part, it needs to play nice with MS Print to PDF or work with the built-in export to PDF function, and it needs to work for all sizes listed. Or if it is simply a "preview" then a Print Setup option needs to be added that focuses on those options. Overall, I'd say there needs to be more work on making printing function better and more like other programs - Print Preview should allow you to change orientation, paper size, and printable area with options all in the forefront, not hidden in a menu. ![]() The issue seems to rear its head when using US sizes like "Tabloid", but using EU sizing like "A3" works better. I can confirm that printing is really buggy, especially when using a PDF Printer (Microsoft Built-in or CutePDF tested) or the built-in export to PDF function. So we're hoping LibreCAD will eventually gets this feature to be easy enough for our staff's convenience requirements. However, we can't afford to put DraftSight onto every workstation (not open source / Free). It is apparently doing the things I'm requesting in LibreCAD. I only mention as an example to model after. Take a look at, DraftSight "Export to PDF" feature, it was the best by default I've seen so far in my testing. The PDF converter I use, needs to automate these things. I cannot burden my users with scaling and paper selection work-arounds. As said, that part looked great, but is was unfortunately not what ended up on the PDF! When I saw the print preview in LibreCAD, it made me very excited that LibreCAD was exactly what we needed. There are online tools that will convert dxf to pdf, but we value our customer's privacy and don't want to entrust their CADs with online 3rd parties. I hope the 2.2.0-rc2 version, mentioned by, has solved this issue to the degree I've mentioned above. Our users aren't technical and need a tool that automatically does what I've mentioned above. Instead of asking the customer to re-send us a PDF, we were hoping we could just install LibreCAD onto each workstation and exclusively use it for its "Export to PDF" capability. Occasionally, the customer will send us a dmg or dxf file. We just need to know the measurements of the pieces for selling the raw material that the CAD requires. Most of our customers send us PDFs to begin with. Our staff, needs no other feature of LibreCAD than its Export to PDF feature! We don't edit any of the dmg or dxf files we receive from our customers. It should even auto-choose portrait or landscape based on the aspect ratio of the drawing itself, so that the drawing is maximum size on the page of the PDF document. The export to PDF feature, should (by default), automate all steps necessary to produce a PDF document that "scales to fit". ![]()
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