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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

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> 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 !
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