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In lugnet.cad, Jim DeVona wrote:
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In lugnet.cad, Ross Crawford wrote:
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In lugnet.cad, Travis Cobbs wrote:
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You might want to add the following two lines to the tops of your generated
files:
0 UNOFFICIAL PART
0 BFC CERTIFY CW
Adding the above two lines will enable BFC processing. The first line is
needed because most models don’t contain a 0 BFC CERTIFY line in them.
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Thanks for pointing this out, I just realised
txt2dat does not
include any header at all. I’d better fix that :)
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Hey, txt2dat is cool! It looks like it should build on the Mac, too, so I’m
puttering with rewriting the Makefile to make that happen. (The triangle
library builds fine with the -DLINUX switch turned off.) It’s part of my
new crusade to get every LDraw program on earth ported to the Mac. Any other
LDraw utility authors - watch out! You’re next. ;-)
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Hey, that’d be great! The makefile is a bit of a rat’s nest, because I borrowed
it from the freetype library, and modified it. The main reason I did that was
for cross-platform compatability, but I’ve never had a Mac to try on. If you can
get it to build on the Mac, I’d be happy to work any changes into the official
version.
ROSCO
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In lugnet.cad, Ross Crawford wrote:
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In lugnet.cad, Jim DeVona wrote:
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Hey, txt2dat is cool! It looks like it should build on the Mac, too, so
I’m puttering with rewriting the Makefile to make that happen. (The
triangle library builds fine with the -DLINUX switch turned off.) It’s
part of my new crusade to get every LDraw program on earth ported to the
Mac. Any other LDraw utility authors - watch out! You’re next. ;-)
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Hey, that’d be great! The makefile is a bit of a rat’s nest, because I
borrowed it from the freetype library, and modified it. The main reason I did
that was for cross-platform compatability, but I’ve never had a Mac to try
on. If you can get it to build on the Mac, I’d be happy to work any changes
into the official version.
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Hi Ross,
It works! I just built it by hand, so I’ll write a simple makefile for it
tomorrow. Only issue is that the version of Freetype 2 that comes with OS X
doesn’t seem to know about FT_Orientation, so I just ifdeffed out the few
bits that referred to that, possibly at the expense of handling certain cases
(Postscript fonts which are wound the other way, perhaps? I dunno).
I have a proposition: working out a Mac build is great, but what would you say
to adapting txt2dat to run on the web (like Bitsticker)? Even more than my Mac
crusade, I like the idea of making all these LDraw tools more accessible to the
casual user, who may not be so keen on the command line or even just installing
lots of little programs. I’d be willing to work on that, when possible, and I
could even host it since my web server supports compiled CGI “scripts.”
Jim
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In lugnet.cad, Jim DeVona wrote:
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In lugnet.cad, Ross Crawford wrote:
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In lugnet.cad, Jim DeVona wrote:
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Hey, txt2dat is cool! It looks like it should build on the Mac, too, so
I’m puttering with rewriting the Makefile to make that happen. (The
triangle library builds fine with the -DLINUX switch turned off.) It’s
part of my new crusade to get every LDraw program on earth ported to the
Mac. Any other LDraw utility authors - watch out! You’re next. ;-)
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Hey, that’d be great! The makefile is a bit of a rat’s nest, because I
borrowed it from the freetype library, and modified it. The main reason I
did that was for cross-platform compatability, but I’ve never had a Mac to
try on. If you can get it to build on the Mac, I’d be happy to work any
changes into the official version.
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Hi Ross,
It works! I just built it by hand, so I’ll write a simple makefile for it
tomorrow. Only issue is that the version of Freetype 2 that comes with OS X
doesn’t seem to know about FT_Orientation, so I just ifdeffed out the few
bits that referred to that, possibly at the expense of handling certain cases
(Postscript fonts which are wound the other way, perhaps? I dunno).
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Hmmm, interesting. txt2dat is currently compiled against 2.1.9, I haven’t tried
upgrading since txt2dat is the only thing I use it for. But the API doc at the
freetype site still documents
the FT_Orientation API. Also, version 2.3.1 (which I just downloaded to
check) seems to include it. What version do you have?
It also documents
the FT_OUTLINE_REVERSE_FILL flag, which I do vaguely remember from when I
originally wrote the program, and can’t remember why I didn’t use it. Does your
version support that flag? If so, I’ll look into using that instead. Type 1
(Postscript) fonts are wound the other way (at least the ones I have are) so we
do need to take it into account.
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I have a proposition: working out a Mac build is great, but what would you
say to adapting txt2dat to run on the web (like Bitsticker)? Even more than
my Mac crusade, I like the idea of making all these LDraw tools more
accessible to the casual user, who may not be so keen on the command line or
even just installing lots of little programs. I’d be willing to work on that,
when possible, and I could even host it since my web server supports compiled
CGI “scripts.”
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That’s also a great idea, but I’ll still continue to maintain the stand-alone
executable separately, so it’ll be up to you to incorporate any changes I may
make to the original :) Either way, I’m happy put a to link on my page.
ROSCO
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In lugnet.cad, Ross Crawford wrote:
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In lugnet.cad, Jim DeVona wrote:
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Hi Ross,
It works! I just built it by hand, so I’ll write a simple makefile for it
tomorrow. Only issue is that the version of Freetype 2 that comes with OS X
doesn’t seem to know about FT_Orientation, so I just ifdeffed out the
few bits that referred to that, possibly at the expense of handling certain
cases (Postscript fonts which are wound the other way, perhaps? I dunno).
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Hmmm, interesting. txt2dat is currently compiled against 2.1.9, I haven’t
tried upgrading since txt2dat is the only thing I use it for. But the API doc
at the freetype site still documents
the FT_Orientation API. Also, version 2.3.1 (which I just downloaded to
check) seems to include it. What version do you have?
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I believe it is freetype 2.1.4 (based on the major/minor/patch definitions in
freetype.h). The headers are last dated 2002, and a look at more recent
freetype changelogs suggests that predates the introduction of
“FT_Orientation.” It’s annoying that the preinstalled libraries aren’t more up
to date.
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It also documents
the FT_OUTLINE_REVERSE_FILL flag, which I do vaguely remember from when I
originally wrote the program, and can’t remember why I didn’t use it. Does
your version support that flag? If so, I’ll look into using that instead.
Type 1 (Postscript) fonts are wound the other way (at least the ones I have
are) so we do need to take it into account.
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Yes, FT_OUTLINE_REVERSE_FILL is defined on my system.
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I have a proposition: working out a Mac build is great, but what would you
say to adapting txt2dat to run on the web (like Bitsticker)? Even more
than my Mac crusade, I like the idea of making all these LDraw tools more
accessible to the casual user, who may not be so keen on the command line or
even just installing lots of little programs. I’d be willing to work on
that, when possible, and I could even host it since my web server supports
compiled CGI “scripts.”
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That’s also a great idea, but I’ll still continue to maintain the stand-alone
executable separately, so it’ll be up to you to incorporate any changes I may
make to the original :) Either way, I’m happy put a to link on my page.
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Cool. I don’t think any modifications to txt2dat itself will even be
necessary: I’ll write a CGI script that passes it arguments and returns its
output. That would make it easy to keep the web version in sync with the regular
version.
I just checked and txt2dat builds on my server no problem (it has FT 2.1.9).
I’ll work out my makefile later today.
Jim
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In lugnet.cad, Jim DeVona wrote:
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I just checked and txt2dat builds on my server no problem (it has FT
2.1.9). I’ll work out my makefile later today.
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Here is my rudimentary makefile for building txt2dat on my Mac and a linux
machine. No guarantees it will work for anyone else but hopefully it could be
helpful. Also a copy of txt2dat.c containing my quick checks to get around the
lack of FT_Orientation in my old version of Freetype.
This makefile goes in the same folder as the original and I build it with make
-f Makefile.alt (it puts the txt2dat program in the same folder as well).
Jim
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