Hi Gene, This not life critical but simply supposed to be a sign:
3" x 6" x 1/8 Al ...6061 that I get at the scrap place. I want to make a sign that says, in letters approx 1.25 " high "BUSY". This goes on a chain at our island summer retreat to hint to people coming down the path that the necessary is busy. ;-) We typically leave the door open as it faces the bay so we get a view while doing our business. It is nice to not get interrupted. :-) Substituting the default by BUSY and setting the font size should do the job. Thanks for wanting to help. dave On Thu, 2014-09-11 at 18:15 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 11 September 2014 14:16:44 dave did opine > And Gene did reply: > > Hi John, > > Thanks for the recommendations. I probably has tried that in thrashing > > around but carefully trying it didn't make and difference. > > > > I finally realized in my dumbhead fashion that qcad was not loaded. > > I've tried it from time to time but it just wasn't my style. > > > > So.. downloaded and installed qcad. > > Carefully adjusted the font path to the install and tried again. No > > joy. > > Then moved a couple of fonts to my home directory and changed the path > > in engrave. Still no joy. > > > > By the way: IRRC the text is supposed to show up in the four quadrant > > window to the left of "fill in the variables area". It doesn't. > > > > Interestingly enough there was no error messages I saw for the missing > > font directory. ;-) > > > > Where do I go from here. > > > > Just call me 'wandering in the wilderness'. ;-) > > > > dave > > Here, its a default install and I've not twiddled it, the font path in the > prefs is /usr/share/qcad/fonts, and contains these fonts at that link: > > gene@coyote:~/bin$ ls /usr/share/qcad/fonts > courier.cxf gothgbt.cxf greekc.cxf greekp.cxf iso8859-11.cxf > italict.cxf normal.cxf normallatin2.cxf romand.cxf > romans.cxf scripts.cxf symbol.cxf unicode.cxf > cursive.cxf gothgrt.cxf greekcs.cxf greeks.cxf italicc.cxf > kochigothic.cxf normallatin1.cxf romanc.cxf romanp.cxf > romant.cxf standard.cxf symbol_misc1.cxf > cyrillic_ii.cxf gothitt.cxf greek_ol.cxf hershey.readme italiccs.cxf > kochimincho.cxf normallatin1.readme romancs.cxf romans2.cxf > scriptc.cxf symbol_astro.cxf symbol_misc2.cxf > > > QCad is a 2.0.5 freeware version. > > Do you have a sample file I can load to see if it works right? I loaded a > .dxf and got the text rendered in German, but it wasn't even a Qcad file, > gCad3d IIRC. > > What can I do to help troubleshoot? > > > > On Thu, 2014-09-11 at 05:57 -0500, John Thornton wrote: > > > Did you click Recalculate then Send to Clipboard? > > > > > > Works for me. > > > > > > JT > > > > > > On 9/10/2014 10:50 AM, dave wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > I'm trying to run engrave-11.py and although it comes up and I can > > > > fill in the parameters I want I seem to get no output. > > > > > > > > Ubuntu 10.04 LTS > > > > Python 2.6.5 (r265:79063, Feb 27 2014, 19:44:14) > > > > > > > > clipboard which works with vim and gedit doesn't contain > > > > any output. > > > > > > > > I'm apparently missing something that ought to be obvious but > > > > so far I've not stumbled over it. > > > > > > > > A gentle shove in the right direction would be appreciated. > > > > > > > > TIA > > > > > > > > Dave > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > ----------- Want excitement? > > > > Manually upgrade your production database. > > > > When you want reliability, choose Perforce > > > > Perforce version control. 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