Hi,
A very useful feature in Draftsight was to select a rectangle, and have the print viewport Automatically be scaled to that size.
So if you use a frame/titleblock with the same ratio of an A4, you automatically have your drawing scaled with the right ratio.
Is it possible to implement such a feature in Qcad ?
BR
Automatic print ViewPort
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Re: Automatic print ViewPort
Hi,
whats about "Print Current View" (CTRL+ALT+P)?
whats about "Print Current View" (CTRL+ALT+P)?
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Re: Automatic print ViewPort
It is clearly not the same and not that useful as the menu in Draftsight..
Specifying the two corner of the rectangle (Draftsight procedure) you can focus _exacly and automatically_ what you want to print.
The very common use, is to draw into a frame or a title-block that automatically scales down to an A4/A3....
With the the "current View", the limitations are the same as trying to set/guess the scale factor in the print preview:
just trying to set/guess it with the mouse wheel instead of setting a number in the text field of the control.... with the said rectangle you don't have to gues or try: just specify two corner and the scale factor is calculated automatically in no time...
Re: Automatic print ViewPort
We are talking about Viewports in Paper_Space?Giuliano69 wrote: ↑Tue Aug 03, 2021 12:10 amThe very common use, is to draw into a frame or a title-block that automatically scales down to an A4/A3....
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Re: Automatic print ViewPort
Hi Huscky
we are talking about "Print preview" viewport
The real viewport (the one with the scroll bar) is a normal window, but in printing terms, the viewport in this situation should be the paper sheet.
A very similar feature (algorithm) to the one I am suggesting is already present: it is "adapt the whole drawing the the page".
This procedure is considering the max extension of the drawing (without asking the user any information) , and then scaling the WHOLE drawing to the paper size.
A smarter approach would ask the user for two point coordinates (easily got with the snap function mode on ), use this rectangular area from the selection to produce the scale up/down of the page.
From what I see, half of the function code is already there...
Giuliano
we are talking about "Print preview" viewport
The real viewport (the one with the scroll bar) is a normal window, but in printing terms, the viewport in this situation should be the paper sheet.
A very similar feature (algorithm) to the one I am suggesting is already present: it is "adapt the whole drawing the the page".
This procedure is considering the max extension of the drawing (without asking the user any information) , and then scaling the WHOLE drawing to the paper size.
A smarter approach would ask the user for two point coordinates (easily got with the snap function mode on ), use this rectangular area from the selection to produce the scale up/down of the page.
From what I see, half of the function code is already there...
Giuliano
Re: Automatic print ViewPort
"Viewport" in Print Preview ... ?????Giuliano69 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 04, 2021 10:52 pm... we are talking about "Print preview" viewport
The real viewport (the one with the scroll bar) is a normal window, but in printing terms, the viewport in this situation should be the paper sheet.
"Real" viewport with scroll bar ... ???
Sorry, you lost me. Honestly I've no idea what you are talking about but I'm sure that is only me. Maybe somebody else can help you with this ...
P.s.: I've the feeling everything what you are looking for already exist in QCAD but we are not using the same terms to describe the situation what leads to this communication barrier ...
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