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by boscaiolo
Mon Jun 21, 2010 11:01 pm
Forum: QCAD 2.1/2.2 Troubleshooting and Problems
Topic: where does qcad get its printer list?
Replies: 2
Views: 30355

SOLVED: where does qcad get its printer list?

The solution to this question is easily found at http://www.ribbonsoft.com/rsforum/viewtopic.php?t=267&highlight=printer+shown For anybody else wanting the answer: It seems that Debian's cups does not follow the FHS, and the file at /etc/printcap is not the active printcap maintained by cups. The so...
by boscaiolo
Mon Jun 21, 2010 7:21 pm
Forum: Pre-sales Questions
Topic: isometric grid
Replies: 8
Views: 28151

This discussion is a few weeks old, but I feel these comments are a little unfair. ... help documentation, preferably contextual, should be sufficient for a newcomer to the program to perform ANY normal program function. Documentation helps the user to discover how the application works, it is unrea...
by boscaiolo
Mon Jun 21, 2010 8:23 am
Forum: QCAD 2.1/2.2 Troubleshooting and Problems
Topic: where does qcad get its printer list?
Replies: 2
Views: 30355

where does qcad get its printer list?

We have two networked printers, and each has a stanza in /etc/cups/printers.conf. Consequently every application shows these two printers on the print menu when trying to print a document. Except qcad. Qcad shows one of the printers and two long-defunct names for the other. Its current name is defin...
by boscaiolo
Wed Jun 09, 2010 6:13 pm
Forum: Chat
Topic: Recompiling QCAD 2. open source from QT3 to QT4
Replies: 13
Views: 42488

recompiling with qt4

FWIW, I've tried to compile the community edition on my gentoo box with qt4, and, predictably enough, it failed. The errors seemed to start with "src/dl_writer.h:337: error: ‘strcasecmp’ was not declared in this scope" and a few similar, and arrived at "make: *** [src/dl_writer_ascii.o] Error 1 Buil...
by boscaiolo
Tue Jun 08, 2010 7:24 pm
Forum: Chat
Topic: Recompiling QCAD 2. open source from QT3 to QT4
Replies: 13
Views: 42488

boscaiolo: most likely you are working with a standard graphics card driver that does not use all the memory your graphics card has. This can slow down things dramatically in recent versions of QCAD 2 since it uses double buffering. ... # lspci | grep -i graphics 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: ...
by boscaiolo
Tue Jun 08, 2010 11:16 am
Forum: Chat
Topic: Recompiling QCAD 2. open source from QT3 to QT4
Replies: 13
Views: 42488

compiling qcad for qt4

Has anybody solved this issue yet? I have been using qcad for over ten years. My most recent version was 2.1.2.8, but this had become cripplingly slow on my gentoo system -- I assume following the upgrade to qt4. I therefore purchased 2.2.2.0 (I try to purchase it from time to time to recompense And...

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