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LPub4 Alpha3 available
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Sat, 14 Jun 2008 13:44:32 GMT
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Hi All,
With help from friends, I've got a properly built version of LPub4 that
installs simply and properly. No extra libraries.
Those who used LPub4 Alpha1 found some minor bugs, but in general LPub4 Alpha
is in pretty good shape.
With LPub4 you use menus and mouse to create your building instructions. You
can convert sub-models to callouts (LPub figures out if the same callout is used
multiple times in the same step and gives you the x2 thing in the bottom left
corner for you, it also figures out if your callout uses submodels and converts
those to callouts too). You can drag the callouts around on the screen, and add
the pointers using the mouse to create, and the mouse to drag the tip. You can
easily create groups of steps on the same page using the menu.
You can move things like assembly images, step numbers, parts lists, callouts
and step groups by placing them next to other things, but you can also drag and
drop these same things using the mouse.
You choose the page size in inches (sorry, the ability to change between
inches and centimeters is not debugged yet), and you express how large you want
your models and parts in part list images in scale. LPub knows about
resolution, so you can specify how many dots per inch you want. You control how
large your assembly and part images are on the page by controlling scale.
A scale of 1 is true size.
Almost all LPub 2 meta-commands are supported. For those that are not, or
those that are not working right yet, you can always manually edit your LDraw
file using the edit window LPub provides.
When you have completed your building instructions, you can print them to a
PDF file.
Please feel free to try LPub4 Alhpa. While not all the features are there,
the ones that are not are those used by the most advanced editors.
If you've never tried LPub before, because you didn't want to learn a whole
bunch of meta-commands, have no worries. You don't need to know them (for the
most part) with LPub4.
For today, I have a windows version here:
http://www.kclague.net/LPub4_0_0_0_alpha3_win32_setup.exe
By the end of the weekend, I hope to have the Mac version available.
Please let me know what you think.
Kevin
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Message has 9 Replies:
 | | Re: LPub4 Alpha3 available
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| In lugnet.cad, Kevin L. Clague wrote: (snip) (...) Woot! I'm looking forward to downloading this as soon as I get home from work tonight! -Joel (16 years ago, 14-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
| | | Re: LPub4 Alpha3 available
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| Well, I haven't tried it on a clean machine yet (one without VC++ 2008), but I have tried it on my main machine, and it seems pretty good overall. I did find a few minor problems. Every time you browse for LDView.exe, it automatically checks the (...) (16 years ago, 14-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
| | | Re: LPub4 Alpha3 available
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| OK, I tried it on a clean machine, and it does indeed work. I did find a few more problems, though: If you hit cancel during LDraw directory selection, it just comes back again (repeatedly). (This machine didn't have LDraw, so I tried to cancel; I (...) (16 years ago, 14-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
| | | Re: LPub4 Alpha3 available
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| Hi, I get an error : Unable to execute file: C:\Program Files\LPub\lpub.exe CreateProcess failed; code 14001 ... What are the requirements to run LPub ? My OS is Windows XP SP1. Erik (16 years ago, 15-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
| | | Re: LPub4 Alpha3 available
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| Wow! I am blown away and simply love the "WYSIWYG" display for the pages. Though I concider myself an experienced LPub user, this adds the user friendlyness we´ve al been waiting for. Thanks a lot for all your effort you put in this, Kevin! I will (...) (16 years ago, 16-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
| | | Re: LPub4 Alpha3 available
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| Hey Kevin, First impression is great! It works really smooth. I've a few questions though: *When I change the scale, it changes the 'zoom' of the step image, but not the dimensions. I've looked in all the settings dialogues but I can't seem to make (...) (16 years ago, 19-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
| | | Re: LPub4 Alpha3 available
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| (...) I would agree. I've never had a chance to try LPub before, but recently I've been experimenting with the Mac version (built from (URL) Sourceforge> for now) and I'm quite pleased with what I've been able to create: (URL) Some other experiments (...) (16 years ago, 20-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
| | | Re: LPub4 Alpha3 available
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| (...) Hello Kevin. This version still seems to depend on MSVCR90.dll which isn't included in the setup. The failure message is: ---...--- C:\Program Files\LPub\lpub.exe ---...--- C:\Program Files\LPub\lpub.exe This application has failed to start (...) (16 years ago, 21-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
| | | Re: LPub4 Alpha3 available
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| (...) I've just had a play and its looking good (after downloading the MS stuff) I have used it once before and its come on a long way since then. Two issues -Would it be possible to have a imperial/metric option for page size? -I have four (...) (16 years ago, 27-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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