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Hi gang, With a tremendous amount from Travis Cobbs, I managed to get a version of LPub 4 ready for an alpha release. I wanted to get something out in time for Brickworld, because I'm presenting it there. I'll need Travis to let you know where to (...) (16 years ago, 10-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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Hi Kevin, (...) I was brave enough to create this ((URL) - based on this set: (URL) in a very short time... But many menus (such as the ones to setup page size or change images scale) are empty. Is it something to be expected for this alpha release? (...) (16 years ago, 11-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) No, this is not supposed to happen. Are you talking about the menus in the main menu bar, or popup menus? The menu items in the configuration menu in the mail title bar should pup up dialogs to allow you to edit related topics using a larger (...) (16 years ago, 11-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) It won't launch on my machine. I'm not quite sure why, but this is what Dependency Walker says: Error: The Side-by-Side configuration information for "c:\program files\lpub\LPUB.EXE" contains errors. This application has failed to start (...) (16 years ago, 11-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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In lugnet.cad, Philippe Hurbain wrote: Hi Philippe. Do you know if you have any other software installed that was developed using Visual C++ 2008? Or, for that matter, do you have Visual C++ 2008 (Express or otherwise) installed? The reason I ask, (...) (16 years ago, 11-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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Never mind. I'm pretty sure that the answer is that you do have the VC++ 2008 runtime libraries installed, because when I install them, LPub works. Anyone else that can't get LPub to launch can download the runtime libraries from Microsft here: (...) (16 years ago, 11-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Please let us know which LDView versions works best once the Mac LPub alpha is available. I haven't had much luck at all with any of the pre-release versions of either program I've tried recently. Jim (16 years ago, 11-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) You seem to be right. I tried LPub4 on a XP machine with VC++2008, and on a W2k one without it, it works in both cases. Philo (16 years ago, 12-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I demo-ed LPub 4 for about an hour and a half at Brickworld. I feel the process went very well. There were lots of great questions and suggestions. Paul Smith Meyer, of LEGO, was present for much of the demonstration. I've always been curious (...) (16 years ago, 23-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad) !
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I missed your presentation this weekend, but it sounded interesting. A friend of mine who lives in Chicago came to BrickWorld that day and we went to lunch, which was when you had your sessions. I too have wondered how LEGO made its instructions in (...) (16 years ago, 24-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) We were told that the building instruction group uses Mayas and that there is a big gap between the LDD group and the BI group. Thanks, Kevin (16 years ago, 24-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Originally, the building instruction team had a huge building with a table for each step with the parts for that step assembled on the table. They photographed the assembly, and then "cartoonized" the picture. It was a huge process. I don't (...) (16 years ago, 24-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Congratulations, Kevin. So when are you getting poached by Billund/Sweden? ;) Tim (16 years ago, 24-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) LOL! I don't know. (yet?) Kevin (16 years ago, 25-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I've gotta say that from the demo, this is amazing. I don't see the Mac version out there and didn't think to ask you for it whilst hanging this weekend. Can you email it or post it? I'd love to try it out on one of my old models, you know, (...) (16 years ago, 25-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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--heavy snipping-- (...) Hi Kevin, I really,really can't wait to try this and just did up some new instructions for an old MOC as a first test for it. But... I'm a forced Vista user (thanks HP) so I need to be sure it's going to work and not ruin my (...) (16 years ago, 25-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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--snip-- (...) Ironically I've met some mathematicians who worked with TLG on this problem about five years ago. Their conclusion of "it can't be done" seems to be holding out still. I'll stick to LPub and (now less) elbow grease. Tim (16 years ago, 25-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I just got a new machine with Vista Home Premium 32-bit on it, and the LPub posted in (URL) this post> works fine on it with LDView 3.2 (aside from the minor problems I posted about). --Travis (16 years ago, 25-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) I just noticed a problem when using LDView as LPub's renderer. LPub (alpha 3) isn't using the -SaveActualSize=0 command line option, so if you don't have the "Save image with specific size" check box checked in LDView's Save Snapshot dialog, (...) (16 years ago, 25-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Thanks Travis, I'll give it a try once that link works again. Tim (16 years ago, 25-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Hmmm got the file but it's not working. Apparently the "side-by-side configurations" is busted : Tim (16 years ago, 25-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Running the VS 2008 run-time installer from (URL) message> should fix the problem. --Travis (16 years ago, 25-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) --snip-- (...) Wow! This is great. Thanks to Travis I have it up and running and boy does it make instruction creation easy. Very, very cool! Thanks heaps, Tim (16 years ago, 25-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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