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(...) As an aside, I'll be trying out the new version you just announced, I just want to figure this problem out with the version I have first. (19 years ago, 9-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Yeah, that's pretty confusing. (...) Ok. In MLCad I've added an absolute rotation step of 30,45,0 to the beginning of my ldraw file. I've added a rotation end step to the end of it. When I try it now in LPub it crashes: L3P failed for file (...) (19 years ago, 9-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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I'm happy to announce the release of LPub 2.3. Enhancements from LPub 2.2 include: - POV Ray 3.6 support - PNG replaces BITMAP and JPEG formats. - PNG support for transparency - Layout support for multiple steps per page - New REMOVE_GROUP (...) (19 years ago, 9-May-05, to lugnet.cad) !
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(...) Well I worked out the scale factor, and imported the DATs into an Access db (some had to have some stuff inlined first) then manually went through the polygons working out all the verteces and entered them directly using Font Creator. (...) (...) (19 years ago, 9-May-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) Hi Jon, This is not very clean in LPub, but the Globe Camera stuff does not affect building instructions. One thing LEGO does in their building instructions is turn the model, to make the backside of the model visible. MLCad provides ROTSTEP (...) (19 years ago, 9-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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I'm using LPub 2.2.0.0 Why does LPub generate a render with the correct camera angle when I do a "Complete Assembly" but not when I generate "Instruction Images". In this case the camera angle is supposed to be globe, lattitude: 30, longitude: 45, (...) (19 years ago, 9-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) coerce it into TrueType format? Always one to push my luck, I do have two little quibbles. I liked the way version 1.4 printed the usage info when running txt2dat with no args. Now it prints a weird error message. Also, the internal default (...) (19 years ago, 9-May-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) I've stopped adding new features. I have been in testing phase. The building instructions I just posted were pushed through LPub to try to flesh out a lot of bugs. I've finished updating the docs. I hope that I can release it today or (...) (19 years ago, 9-May-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst)
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(...) We are still alive and kicking. I personally have had very little time to devote to side activities lately due to a change in position at work and my impending move to Hawaii in 3 months. The library updates are on hold until we develop a (...) (19 years ago, 9-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Your wish is my command... well almost. (URL) (19 years ago, 9-May-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Ldraw.org still alive?
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(...) While I can NOT talk for the rest of the LDraw staff last I checked (today) LDraw.org IS still alive. The LDraw Help Desk gets at least one email a day from users all over the place asking questions on how to install the software, issues with (...) (19 years ago, 9-May-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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Hello, it's been almost two months since anything happened on www.ldraw.org. No news, no library updates, no SOTM/MOTM. Is the Steering Committee busy with far more important things like going commercial or selling out to TLC? What is going on? (19 years ago, 8-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) You don't actually NEED to uninstall first. It handles upgrades/reinstalls (and subsequent uninstalls) very nicely. (19 years ago, 6-May-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst)
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(...) Hi Kevin. Any idea when this new release will be available for download? No hurry or anything, but I've got a couple of instruction I want to generate sometime this year or the next, and would like to have a go at it. Do you want a beta (...) (19 years ago, 6-May-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst)
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(...) Maybe it's a language thing. I've seen hints that some of the desktop.ini bits behave differently when you're set up for a different language. Or perhaps the OEMs package Windows differently for other countries and skip the desktop.ini file in (...) (19 years ago, 5-May-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) If you make a program that accepts drag and drop, you can drag the font file onto the program, and it will get the full path. I don't know what's up with Anders' system either. Mine behaves just like yours. Oh, and the UICLSID in the (...) (19 years ago, 5-May-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Part requests: Lots and lots of parts
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(...) I have posted these parts on ldraw part tracker (URL) 44292.dat> (URL) 44308.dat> I plan to modelize the following parts (URL) Wheel Technic 14 x 70 mm Futuristic> + (URL) matching tire> (URL) BIONICLE claw> (URL) BIONICLE hook> (19 years ago, 4-May-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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(...) That's odd. I always set explorer that way myself, but I have the same desktop.ini file and the same behavior in the fonts directory on both XP and 95. Apparently you can modify all sorts of folder behavior with these magic options in (...) (19 years ago, 4-May-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Well, apart from the difficulty of converting a Windows face name to a filename as identified here, I always intended it to be relatively easy to port to other platforms. And the most non-platform specific way I could think to do that was to (...) (19 years ago, 4-May-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Or... HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\S...ft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts This brought to my attention that not all the files listed are "single font" files (look for ttc files). Is there any reason that txt2dat can't handle font face names? (19 years ago, 3-May-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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