> 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) hehe, if you mean pfrostie.freeservers.com/cad-tastrafy i'm not my own dot com just yet. :-) btw, i've added AJBIBB's lx-viewer to the CAD section, and a whole sleugh of new projects from sourceforge. most have not posted any code yet. his seems to be way ahead of most. > > 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 there is also a ps2hpgl, but i've had trouble getting the plotter to initialize > > 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 > ===== phrostie Oh I have slipped the surly bonds of DOS and danced the skies on Linux silvered wings. http://pfrostie.freeservers.com/cad-tastrafy/ //www.freelists.org/webpage/cad-linux/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com