On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 11:20 AM, chuckles <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the link. I was insufficiently familiar with the SRU process > to realize what the process was. I was running off of your earlier post > indicating you would prepare an SRU. I installed your work-around and > it appears to work. > > Interesting that the software is made freely available, but the > instructions on how to use said software is not. Most commercial > releases make the documentation freely available in order to induce new > customers to use it, or existing users to upgrade. > > I suppose I'll find some payware that works better than Qcad in that > case. I was finding it a difficult transition from AutoCAD even with > the instructions. Without them it isn't worth the effort.
An interesting project is librecad: www.librecad.org They're a semi-new fork of QCAD that ported it to qt4. However, they're just starting on a manual and don't have DWG support yet (for legal reasons). I'd keep on eye on them - they're actively working on both issues and have been getting good reviews and feedback from people. They're 1.0 version is in Ubuntu, but there 2.0 branch they are developing is phenomenal. If it had 1) a manual, 2) DWG support, and 3) python scripting support - I think it would be near commercial quality. They're working on all three of those, so it's just a matter of time... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/578400 Title: Opening QCad manual from within the program fails on Lucid To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qcad/+bug/578400/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
