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| | | In the previous version of LPub I released some prototype new features for creating "callout" images, which are images of small assembly contruction, all tiled together into a single image, like this: (URL) this (URL) above callout image generation (...) (21 years ago, 29-Apr-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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| | | | | Re: LPub 2.2.0.0 Available —Kevin L. Clague
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| | | | | (...) I meant this example: (URL) Kevin (21 years ago, 29-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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| | | | | Re: LPub 2.2.0.0 Available —Tim Courtney
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| | | | | (...) I'm really looking forward to this :-) I regret that I haven't had the time recently to play with the new LPub. I should download it on my spare machine and play there. I can't wait to see the new features you have in store! (ahem, EPS output, (...) (21 years ago, 29-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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| | | | | | | Re: LPub 2.2.0.0 Available —Kevin L. Clague
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| | | | | | (...) Tim, I'm not going to put your individual need ahead of features that are useful to all. So quit bugging me about EPS or I may *never* do it ;^) It is no where near the tops of my list. (...) Thanks! (...) Kevin (21 years ago, 29-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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| | | | | | | | Re: LPub 2.2.0.0 Available —Tim Courtney
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| | | | | | | (...) I know I know... just razzin ya >;-) I love the stuff you've come out with so far. It's nothing short of revolutionary for the LDraw community. Please, keep it up! -Tim (21 years ago, 29-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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| | | | | | | | Re: LPub 2.2.0.0 Available —Jacob Sparre Andersen
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| | | | | | (...) But aren't we all interested in being able to make nice compact printable versions of our building instructions? IMO EPS and PDF are ideal formats for that. And since it is reasonably trivial to convert EPS to PDF, it makes sense to make the (...) (21 years ago, 30-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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| | | | | | | | Re: LPub 2.2.0.0 Available —Don Heyse
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| | | | | | | (...) Yeah, but I don't think it's trivial to convert from 3D LDR format to EPS. That's the problem. There are plenty of ways to Convert from a 3D format to a 2D representation suitable for printing, but most of them involve rasterization at some (...) (21 years ago, 30-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | | LDraw -> EPS (Was: LPub 2.2.0.0 Available) —Jacob Sparre Andersen
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| | | | | | | | (...) No it isn't. Bitmaps with Z buffering are much easier. (...) It sounds like I should spend more time looking at the source code for LDGLite. (...) I'm really too busy to do any work on it now, but I wouldn't mind knowing where to look, if I (...) (21 years ago, 30-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: LDraw -> EPS (Was: LPub 2.2.0.0 Available) —Don Heyse
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| | | | | | | | (...) You really should. I don't have as much free time these days so it's been a bit neglected by me. (...) Most of the code is in gleps.c. That's the part that needs work. Otherwise you can search for the variable EPS_OUTPUT_FIGURED_OUT in main.c. (...) (21 years ago, 30-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | | | EPS output from LDGLite (Was: LDraw -> EPS) —Jacob Sparre Andersen
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| | | | | | | | (...) Yes. But I need to overcome my strong dislike for C code every time I open a C file to do anything with it. (...) Yes. Take a look at my LEGO purist's fighter> for an example: (URL)and the elimination of occluded polygons. Yes. The above file (...) (21 years ago, 30-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | Re: LPub 2.2.0.0 Available —Jennifer Clark
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| | | | | | | "Jacob Sparre Andersen" <sparre@nbi.dk> wrote in message (...) How about this? pnmtops(1) pnmtops(1) NAME pnmtops - convert portable anymap to PostScript SYNOPSIS pnmtops [-scale s] [-turn|-noturn] [-rle|-runlength] [-dpi n] [-width n] [-height n] (...) (21 years ago, 30-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: LPub 2.2.0.0 Available —Jacob Sparre Andersen
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| | | | | | | | (...) I know `pnmtops` very well (there's a bug in one of Red Hat's versions of it), but once you have rasterised a vector image, there is really no way to get back to the quality of the vector image again. Using `pnmtops` you will either get much (...) (21 years ago, 30-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | Re: LPub 2.2.0.0 Available —Kevin L. Clague
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| | | | | | My point was that EPS is not as generally useful as say, a page layout mechanism. The step layout controls that I just released are very cool, but when you try to do something like this: (URL) multiple steps packed together, the current mechanism (...) (21 years ago, 30-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | Re: LPub 2.2.0.0 Available —Duane Hess
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| | | | | Would you be able to add a BOM generator? The current version allows for a BOM, but only after rendering all of the steps. When I am in a hurry, I like to print a graphical BOM, grab the pieces I need and build the model later when I have more time. (...) (21 years ago, 29-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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| | | | | | | Re: LPub 2.2.0.0 Available —Kevin L. Clague
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| | | | | | (...) On the Building Instruction tab, uncheck the construction images checkbox. Now pull down the Generate->Instruction Images. It will only produce PLIs and BOMS. Kevin (...) <snip> (21 years ago, 2-May-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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| | | | | Re: LPub 2.2.0.0 Available - Comma's and Dots —Jaco van der Molen
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| | | | Once again: thanks. This is getting better all the time. Now to get a hang of creating callouts... Another thing, I think I posted this before or replied directly to Kevin: Having a Dutch operating system, Win98 SE, the decimal dots change to (...) (21 years ago, 2-May-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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| | | | | | Re: LPub 2.2.0.0 Available - Comma's and Dots —Niels Karsdorp
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| | | | (...) I use the Dutch version of Win98 SE, too. Having this 'local settings' problem with more tools (including my primitive generation Excel sheet) I changed the local settings on my pc to '.' as decimal seperator and ',' as thousand seperator. (...) (21 years ago, 2-May-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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