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I got this fabulous email from Andrew Maier: Kevin, as discussed, here are some comments on LPub. I wanted to post this on the lugnet cad forum, but I signed up there only recently, and it seems to take a while. So I'm writing to you, but feel free (...) (20 years ago, 22-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Some comments on LPub
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(...) Andy, I'm very impressed with this post on LPub. You are very thorough, and it is clear you've done your homework before asking questions. It is some of the best LPub feedback I've ever gotten. (...) Yes. Hopefully I won't make the same (...) (20 years ago, 22-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Some comments on LPub
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(...) This is exactly what happens when you read string numbers into a float (or Pascal single) and then convert it to a double (or extended). Floating point numbers are never exact in computers, and storing them with limited precision (...) (20 years ago, 22-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Some comments on LPub
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(...) Anders, Thanks very much. I'll see what I can do. Kevin (20 years ago, 22-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Some comments on LPub
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(...) <snip> (...) LPub renders the part images, and then walks through the image finding its bounding rectangle. All placement is based on packing rectangles. To better pack the long parts, I would need to find the bounding parallelogram, and pack (...) (20 years ago, 23-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Some comments on LPub
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(...) One way to adress this is to keep the setting in memory also as a string, and never convert on the way of loading a config file into memory and saving it to a file again. Only when the setting is used to do calculations, it is converted from (...) (20 years ago, 26-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Some comments on LPub [DAT]
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(...) :-) Thanks for the flowers ... (...) correctly. (...) I believe this is sufficient, since the window is scrollable. I did not yet see a case where the top of the contents had fallen off the scrollable contents. In addition, it would be nice if (...) (20 years ago, 26-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Some comments on LPub - rotations
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(...) I have to correct myself. It does not seem to work, but then as I re-read your answer, it seems that the fixed version is still in the pipe and not yet in 2.2.0.9 beta, true ? Thanks Andy (20 years ago, 26-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Some comments on LPub - rotations
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(...) <snip> (...) Correct. (...) (20 years ago, 27-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Some comments on LPub
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(...) I was and am particularly appreciative of the fact that you were very thorough in reading documentation. You also dug deeply and gave explanations that let me answer questions without having to ask questions. (...) I need to move the PLI small (...) (20 years ago, 27-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad)
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