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Posted: **Thu Jul 18, 2019 7:33 pm**

Hi!

I am having problems rasterizing layers with `$` symbols in their names: they always show up empty.

Given the following file:

layernames.dwg: (36.09 KiB) Downloaded 574 times

A full raster yields no problem:

: layernames.dwg.png (21.31 KiB) Viewed 6497 times

Running rasterization on a layer without `$` in its name works fine:

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qcad.exe -no-gui -allow-multiple-instances -autostart scripts\Pro\Tools\Dwg2Bmp\Dwg2Bmp.js -background=white -width=1024 -height=1024 -force -antialiasing -monochrome -color-correction -zoom-all -no-weight-margin -layer=0 -outfile="layer0.png" layernames.dwg

: layer0.png (10.1 KiB) Viewed 6497 times

However, running it on "Layer_with_$", yields a full white image:

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qcad.exe -no-gui -allow-multiple-instances -autostart scripts\Pro\Tools\Dwg2Bmp\Dwg2Bmp.js -background=white -width=1024 -height=1024 -force -antialiasing -monochrome -color-correction -zoom-all -no-weight-margin -layer="Layer_with_$" -outfile="Layer_with_$.png" layernames.dwg

I am assuming this is a problem with the CLI and system escaping of characters? Or the layer parser believing `$` is being used to escape a regexp? Any thoughts?

Thanks!

Posted: **Thu Jul 18, 2019 7:39 pm**

Oooooh, ok, `$` have to escaped...! This works:

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qcad.exe -no-gui -allow-multiple-instances -autostart scripts\Pro\Tools\Dwg2Bmp\Dwg2Bmp.js -background=white -width=1024 -height=1024 -force -antialiasing -monochrome -color-correction -zoom-all -no-weight-margin -layer="Layer_with_\$" -outfile="Layer_with_$.png" layernames.dwg

Posted: **Thu Jul 18, 2019 7:56 pm**

Feature request: it would be nice if QCAD spit some kind of warning message when trying to render a layer with a name that doesn't exist (and perhaps render nothing), rather than silently rendering an empty image.

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Layers with `$` symbol in their name do not rasterize with dwg2bmp

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