Print at Dec 18, 2025, 2:49:14 PM

Posted by archibaldtuttle at Feb 15, 2024, 5:11:45 PM
Re: page size / sheet size image centering
@keet

thanks for that. I found a pretty nifty reader and svg creator, macsvg, butits print/export functions are limited and archaic. i can't address page size or orientation or scale to prevent it from fitting to page and it won't even flip orientation.

so i tried browsers as you suggested and have pretty much the same problem. if it was .dxf my normal readers could handle it. i used to work in vectorworks which could export dxf and pdf, but my computer with a runnable version loaded is down. and not sure if i could readily convert the sweethome file I was sent anyway.
and never worked with .svg so i don't even know if it can open those. why doesn't sweethome dxf. is that proprietary or they have to license it?

i never had output problems with CAD before. you could easily set sheet size, print area, etc. and then export .pdf or print. because output was always the end goal whether as shareable file format or a print. this is like pulling teeth to get a decent file or print where different floors of a building that are different sizes nonetheless output into a readily readable format at the same scale and either print or open natively at the same scale.

one solution would be if I could at least export rulers or their facsimile with the svg. then I would be able to tell if they are displaying or printing at the same scale more quickly and easily.

thanks for the hints. currently in the close but no cigars mode still if there are any stoogie chompers out there.