On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 01:43:00PM -0600, Thomas Vecchione wrote: > I'll be honest in that I personally find QCad to be invaluable for 2D > drafting. I am not sure exactly how you are planning on using the vector > drawing program is part of the problem. In the past I have also used > Inkscape for web design, and OpenOffice Draw for some things as well. I, > like others, am curious how QCad and Inkscape fail these basic requirements > for you?
Thanks to all who responded. A short report of my adventures in CAD land: * Inkscape. After two hours of trying I still can't draw a simple rectangle. It gets filled (in blue) and all attempts to change that have failed. * Qcad. Some very nice and unique features. Several problems: - It doesn't seem to use anything but 'plotter fonts' (i.e. just lines), - It doesn't seem to have arrows on lines - It doesn't seem to have a concept of a 'path', I've not been able to create e.g, a series of connected lines, move a point and keep the lines connected, - Printing to PS works, but the layout in the print preview doesn't correspond to the output. No EPS, so converting to PDF produces a full page and not a figure that can be inserted into a pdflatex document. * Xfig crashed within five minutes. * Xcircuit segfaulted within three minutes. The others I have still to try. Ciao, -- FA Laboratorio di Acustica ed Elettroacustica Parma, Italia O tu, che porte, correndo si ? E guerra e morte ! _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
