Printing drawing to a single printed paper page
Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2015 10:03 pm
Fidora core 21 fully patched
QCad community 3.8.1.0
I have created a floor plan of a 10 foot by 20 foot shed with two rectangles in it representing some stuff I want to put in the shed when I'm done.
I am trying to get a printout on a single page.
So far I have verified that the page is set to ANSI A 8 1/2 by 11, using colors and the background is set to white.
When I use print preview I get a representation of the page set against a huge set of pages that measure out into the feet of length and width. Printing from this representation I get twenty or more blank pages out before I interrupt and cancel the print job.
When I set the print scale I'm selecting 1/4" = 1 foot so I'm pretty sure the drawing will fit on an US letter sized page.
Hope someone can straighten me out.
As has been pointed out to me, the Pro version has an option on the print preview menu to select a single page. The version I'm using does not have that option.
When I check 'Help about' I do not get a message that this version is a Community Version. I used it for several days before I realized that I needed to delete the 'extra' Pro version scripts in order to get uninterrupted use of the application. I never tried to print before deleting the 'extras'. The drawing I'm trying to print has been newly created in this version of QCAD. It is not imported from another application or another version of QCAD. It is just a small drawing and should be able to be output to a single printed paper page no problem, unless there are internal restrictions that only the professional verrsion may use of course.
Thanks.
carl
QCad community 3.8.1.0
I have created a floor plan of a 10 foot by 20 foot shed with two rectangles in it representing some stuff I want to put in the shed when I'm done.
I am trying to get a printout on a single page.
So far I have verified that the page is set to ANSI A 8 1/2 by 11, using colors and the background is set to white.
When I use print preview I get a representation of the page set against a huge set of pages that measure out into the feet of length and width. Printing from this representation I get twenty or more blank pages out before I interrupt and cancel the print job.
When I set the print scale I'm selecting 1/4" = 1 foot so I'm pretty sure the drawing will fit on an US letter sized page.
Hope someone can straighten me out.
As has been pointed out to me, the Pro version has an option on the print preview menu to select a single page. The version I'm using does not have that option.
When I check 'Help about' I do not get a message that this version is a Community Version. I used it for several days before I realized that I needed to delete the 'extra' Pro version scripts in order to get uninterrupted use of the application. I never tried to print before deleting the 'extras'. The drawing I'm trying to print has been newly created in this version of QCAD. It is not imported from another application or another version of QCAD. It is just a small drawing and should be able to be output to a single printed paper page no problem, unless there are internal restrictions that only the professional verrsion may use of course.
Thanks.
carl