On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Dick Steffens <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/19/2014 10:19 AM, Denis Heidtmann wrote: >> I bought an hp officejet 4630, a multifunction printer. I got it >> installed and working in Ubuntu 12.04 using hplip. It took a while, >> but went without a hitch. Printing and scanning work very well to the >> extent I have exercised it. >> >> The problem is trying to get it working in Win 2k from VirtualBox. I >> looked at the CD (provided with the printer) from within Windows and >> found a file which stated "This device is not supported in Windows >> 2000" (among many other older windows). Bummer. There is a 2-D >> mechanical drawing program I really need to be able to print from. >> >> Is there any way I might be able to get this thing to just print (do >> not need the scan or fax functions)? > > Could you export the drawing and print it from a Linux CAD program, such > as BRL-CAD? > > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens
I am looking into that. A few years ago I looked into Linux CAD programs, and was very disappointed, to say the least. I will check BRL-CAD and whatever else I can find. If I can get an easy-to-use, simple 2D program in Linux I can abandon quick-cad. -Denis _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
