FW: [PythonCAD] printing

[Somerlot, Chris]

> > 
> > Any plans to support multiple layouts?  Multiple views in 
> one layout?
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean here with 'multiple layouts'. Does 
> this mean that the printed file contains various views of 
> some objects?
> 

When I do multiple layouts, it is one view of the drawing with a layout
for 11x17, D-size sheet, E-size, etc. In Autocad (2004 and up) each
layout is a separate tab.

> > 
> > How about this idea.  If any pythoncad file could be converted to a 
> > postscript (preferably via command line (e.g. free batch 
> plotting:)), 
> > then your layouts could just be drawings with instantiations of the 
> > model view (such as xrefs or blocks.)
> 
> As the files are saved in XML, there is probably some way to 
> do this with XSLT. I'll revert to textbook mode here and say 
> that the code to do this is left as an example for the reader 
> to create.

Thinking about this, embedding one pythoncad drawing in another via a
link would be similar to inserting a raster image, so why not just have
one embedding function and the user gets to pick from a jpeg aerial
photo or another pythoncad drawing? You would only need the ability to
scale and clip to a window, and it should be embedded on its own layer
to be able to turn it on and off. And then all of a sudden pythoncad is
a GIS too :)

> 
> > I'm not particularly fond of autocad's multi-layout-tabs 
> and its habit 
> > of
> > storing all of your layouts in the same file with your 
> model.  

I totally agree. What really sucks is when the symbols you drew for a
E-size sheet come out tiny and illegible on an 8.5x11.