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Recalling a bit of history... .PNG was to be the .GIF replacement (due too all the legal stuff around .gif) which is mostly for palletized graphics, in which case PNG is great. The PNG features that are beyond the .gif features do make a very handy (...) (22 years ago, 21-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst)
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| | Re: Q? part 4626.dat stud spacing
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Steve, Thanks! later, James Mathis (...) (22 years ago, 21-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: LDraw.org Standards Committee (LSC) Draft Proposal
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Looks like you guys have spent a lot of time thinking about how to go about this in a fair and equitable way, very comprehensive. It feels a lot like the way standards are created in the high-tech world which benefits everyone! This is a great time, (...) (22 years ago, 21-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Switching from BITMAP/JPEG to PNG
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"Kevin L. Clague" <kevin_clague@yahoo.com> skrev i meddelandet news:HDpB2o.oBr@lugnet.com... (...) Not from me :-) I'm in the process of throwing JPEG out of BlockCAD (AnkerCAD, ???CAD), as this makes the program almost 250 kB smaller! The PNG (...) (22 years ago, 21-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst)
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| | Re: Some more LPub errors?
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"Kevin L. Clague" <kevin_clague@yahoo.com> skrev i meddelandet news:HDpArM.n2J@lugnet.com... (...) the (...) Why not have an invisible LDRAW part with color, just like the LIGHT.DAT? -- Anders Isaksson, Sweden BlockCAD: (2 URLs) (22 years ago, 21-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) not at all! PNG will support transparent background - right? that's all I need ;-) w. (22 years ago, 21-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst)
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| | Resolution
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When authoring new elements, how important is the level of detail in LDraw format? That is, for more complex curves and surfaces, is it necessary to get as close to the real thing as possible? As an alternative, is it acceptable to get pretty close (...) (22 years ago, 21-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Preview of multi-level callouts complete with pointers
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(...) The callouts are placed relative to outside edges or corners of the step image: Corners: TOP_LEFT TOP_RIGHT BOTTOM_LEFT BOTTOM_RIGHT Edges plus justification to the perpendicular edges TOP (LEFT, CENTER or RIGHT) BOTTOM (LEFT, CENTER or RIGHT) (...) (22 years ago, 21-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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| | LDraw.org Standards Committee (LSC) Draft Proposal
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As Orion posted earlier today, let's revisit the LDraw.org standards body idea. [1] Here is the draft proposal I mentioned earlier today on LUGNET. I'm posting it here for everyone to discuss. Several weeks ago, I worked with Kevin Clague, Larry (...) (22 years ago, 21-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dev) !!
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| | Re: Preview of multi-level callouts complete with pointers
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Hi Kevin, You've done it again! This is a HUGE improvement as it allows a much needed "step hierarchy", extremely useful for generating instructions - your step 0 is actually two steps. This is really great. I am probably being too inquisitive too (...) (22 years ago, 21-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Some more LPub errors?
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(...) edges (...) Ah, this is different than what you first described. LPub tries to ignore primitives when making PLIs and BOMs. I wonder why it missed these. I can recommend a work around: PLIST BEGIN IGN PLIST END Kevin (...) (22 years ago, 21-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Some more LPub errors?
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(...) I did that already just to make sure and got no error. Here's some more info I've found troubleshooting This error seems to occur when LPub thinks the X-Xedge.dat primitive are parts for the Construction Images and BOM. In other words LPub (...) (22 years ago, 21-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | A&M LWorks presents a LEGO Poem called Crayons
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It's been a while since I last uploaded a LEGO Poem but alas here is a new one to add the to general collection entilted Crayons. See it at (URL) LWorks (URL) (22 years ago, 21-Apr-03, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.cad, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Some more LPub errors?
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(...) Please try to run lpubtest.dat through L3P manually. I do not have a way to continue if L3P finds an error in the file. You may need to talk to Lars about this one. Kevin (...) (22 years ago, 21-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Switching from BITMAP/JPEG to PNG
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"Kevin L. Clague" <kevin_clague@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:HDpB2o.oBr@lugnet.com... [ ... snipped ... ] (...) all (...) Nope. I have been converting all of my raw bitmaps to PNG with ImageMagick so this is a welcomed change from my (...) (22 years ago, 21-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst)
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| | Re: Some more LPub errors? [DAT]
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(...) Try this: 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 stud.dat 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 4-4edge.dat A little further investigation reveals that LPub quits on error no matter what the color of the edge. The exact error I'm getting is: 'L3P failed for file (...) (22 years ago, 21-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Switching from BITMAP/JPEG to PNG
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JPEG image format and the new callout capabilites in LPub (plus PLI background color non-white which I just fixed) are incompatible with JPEG because when you pack images together that are rendered with the same background color, not all the (...) (22 years ago, 21-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst)
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| | Re: LDraw File Format Standard Committee Update
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Hi Orion - I have a written proposal which covers the process for starting the standards committee, and the process for perpetuating it. It's almost ready to be posted to the public for comments. I put this together with the help of Kevin, Larry, (...) (22 years ago, 21-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LPub request
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(...) The short answer to your question is yes. Ldraw only looks in the PARTS, P, MODELS, or current folder. Two extension folders have been added to faciltate further separation: the PARTS/S folder is for subparts used by parts in the PARTS folder (...) (22 years ago, 21-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Some more LPub errors?
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(...) Example please. (...) Quite possibly. I'll run through all calls to L3P and see what I can come up with. (...) This is a good idea. Jennifer Clark first suggested this for pneumatic hoses. My first throught is to have a special end cap part (...) (22 years ago, 21-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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