Layers in exported PDF

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Layers in exported PDF

Post by andrew » Thu Jul 20, 2017 2:12 pm

From a QCAD user:
When exporting a drawing with layers to PDF there are no layers in the PDF file.

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Re: Layers in exported PDF

Post by andrew » Thu Jul 20, 2017 2:14 pm

QCAD does not export layer information to PDF. The reason being that the toolkit we use for PDF export (Qt) does not have any support for exporting layers.

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