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Re: LPub4 Alpha3 available
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lugnet.cad
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Wed, 2 Jul 2008 22:23:32 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Martin Long wrote:
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In lugnet.cad, Jim DeVona wrote:
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In lugnet.cad, Kevin L. Clague wrote:
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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.
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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
Sourceforge for now) and I’m
quite pleased with what I’ve been able to create:
Some other experiments can be seen
here and
here.
Some aspects of the popup menu interface weren’t immediately clear to me,
honestly, but it’s not too hard to figure out and definitely worth the
effort if you’re interested in LDraw. I think Kevin has put a lot of work
into this useful tool.
Jim
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Firstly, I am seriously impressed with this Alpha version of LPub. Usability
is fabulous - I was never a big user of previous versions but I’m already
hooked by this release.
One thing I’m curious about: how did Jim include the cover page for his
instruction set? I’ve played around with “LPUB PAGE INSERT pngimagename”
with no luck. I can use my PNG as a background, but it then appears for all
pages. I really want to use it once on the first page.
I’m also assuming I can’t suppress page numbers on what would then be a cover
page?
Martin
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Hi Martin,
Thanks so much for the feedback about LPub 4.
Jim used a separate tool to add the cover page to his instructions.
INSERT meta is not yet supported in LPub4. Arbitrary pages, bill of
materials, inserting pictures, and reserving space in callouts and step groups
is not supported yet.
I want the concept of arbitrary pages, and suppressing page numbers on them,
as part of the future of LPub.
Kevin
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: LPub4 Alpha3 available
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| (...) Ah right, thanks Kevin. As I said, it's a great tool already and you sound like you have great plans for it too. Martin (16 years ago, 2-Jul-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
| | | Re: LPub4 Alpha3 available
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| (...) Yeah, I cheated a bit. I made the cover page in a separate program and added it to the instructions PDF with (URL) PDFLab>. It sounds like great things are still in store for LPub, which is neat because it's already come so far. Jim (16 years ago, 2-Jul-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: LPub4 Alpha3 available
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| (...) Firstly, I am seriously impressed with this Alpha version of LPub. Usability is fabulous - I was never a big user of previous versions but I'm already hooked by this release. One thing I'm curious about: how did Jim include the cover page for (...) (16 years ago, 2-Jul-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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