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Re: Newbie question on printing b/w and colour hints
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lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst
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Wed, 31 Dec 2003 16:18:31 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
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In lugnet.cad, Kevin L. Clague wrote:
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In lugnet.cad, Ahui Herrera wrote:
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In lugnet.cad, Michael Shiels wrote:
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I was quickly grabbing a few LDR files of christmas related things for my
kids to build next year, and was printing them on the only cheap printer
we have which is a b/w laser, but of course the colours are impossible to
decipher.
Is there anything that does colour hints (ie fly outs from the bricks with
a letter for the colour or something??
OR is there something I am missing??
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I am not aware of any current application that will do callouts with a
letter for the color. I think you are the first person I read/see/hear
that has brought this issue up. =0
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This is an old issue.
All the building instruction books that Syngress has published are black and
white. LPub supports this by indicating color in the part list images.
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Does anyone have an application in the works that can do the above?
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LPub.
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LPub’s approach is a great one (and one that I use as well in the parts lists
that I include in my instructions) but it doesn’t do what Ahui is asking,
precisely, that is, it doesn’t provide “callouts with a letter for the
color”.
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Boy, that would be *very* hard to have happen automatically. Automatic
placement of the color labels would be problematic at best.
It is *much* easier to put the color labels in the part list image. The label
is some location relative to the bounding box of the individual part image.
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I’m not convinced that’s necessarily a better approach than what LPub does,
though.
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It would be much more labor intensive.
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Michael, how are you printing the images of the instructions? From the
output via MLCad? Perhaps you could save the files to a CD or disk and go
to kinkos for color printouts. Might be a bit pricey but you can use the
cheapest color prinout option they have. Or how about just leaving the
files on the PC and having them view the instructions from there. Yes, I
know not the best solution.
Larry P or Steve B. you boys have probably the most experience with
printing out instructions. Your thoughts on the matter?
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I have a bit of experience here as well.
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Indeed you do!
... and arguably preparing instructions for publication in a book, where you
have less control over the final format (book editors and publishers have
been known to rescale things, change the grayscale shadings, etc) makes what
you do even harder than preparing small run instructions where there is a lot
of control over the final format by the instruction author.
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Yes, but I was in a special situation, because Syngress really didn’t have a
plan, just a concept. The president’s son thought they should do some books on
LEGO. I had more input on the format than might be normal. Nonetheless there
were certainly suprises as we closed on the first BI book.
Kevin
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