I don't have his address, but search for "wine intellicad" on google.com and it will come up as one of the first ten (something like cadtastrify.com) If you can get plot (#4) to work, then you can easily set up a printer in Linux that simply saves it as a pdf (#5) - using ps2pdf from ghostscript AJBIBB@xxxxxxx wrote: > >Keith, >I am finally getting caught up with the E-mails over the holidays. As >requested here is the status of the program and my future plans. >Current Status: >The program can open and view an AutoCad drawing (in model space) created up >to A2k. After viewing the drawing you can save it to a DWG or DXF file (any >version 2.5 to 2000), plus you can write a snap shot of it as a BMP or XPM >file. While viewing there is pan and zoom (in, out, extents, center, window, >and previous) capability plus you can set the view direction in 3D space >using a dynamic dialog box. Also included is a rudimentary help system. The >program will search for and load X-REFS and AutoCad SHX files to display speci >al fonts (at least it works with the Big Fonts I have on my system). >Future Items: (in the order I plan to work on them) : >1) I want to get a web home page up at Source Forge for the Viewer. This is >one of the places where I plan to provide a link to this mailing list (the >other is in the project discussion forum). >2) I want to incorporate the new icons you sent into the tool bars, plus I >want to implement the 3D hot keys you requested. I also would like to be >able to toggle from paper space views to model space views (and back again). >3) I then want to revise the program as necessary to use the OD libraries >which should become available 4 to 6 weeks after Acad drops ACAD02 on the >market. Viewer currently uses the 2.005 OD libraries which are several >versions behind. This should bring the program up to date with the latest >from Open Drawing. >4) I would like to have some sort of plot capability incorporated. >5) There seems to be some interest in saving drawings as PDF format and I >would like to try that also. >6) If I get to this point it is logical to try to implement some simple >editing commands. >I am confident that I'll get 1-3 done, after that it really depends upon user >feed back. If there seems to be an interest out there (and people are using >the program) I am sure that I'll keep plugging away at it. By the time I >get to #6 I am going to need some other programming help though. Even if the >help is not coding I will, at the very least, need to bounce some ideas off >of people as to what is a computationally efficient scheme that can be used >to link a vector on the screen to a specific entity inside the drawing data >base. You really can't edit until you answer that basic question. The OD >people have mentioned once or twice that they MAY make this capability part >of some future release, but I gather it is more of a wish list item than >something with which we can hang our hats on. > >I hope this gives you the information you need. This is slightly >embarrassing to ask, but what exactly is the address of your web page? I >knew that you had a page somewhere with snap shots of Linux Cad programs >displayed (and I am pretty sure I even checked it out once), but I don't have >the address written down anywhere. >Andy ----- Brian Johnson, P. Eng. Johnson Engineering Consultants www.jecinc.on.ca