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Re: LPub 4 Callouts (and other questions)
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lugnet.cad
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Tue, 8 Dec 2009 14:16:26 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Eric Albrecht wrote:
> In lugnet.cad, Kevin L. Clague wrote:
> >
> > The above may help with LPub showing the right portion of a large mode, but it
> > doesn't help with cropping the image size to contain what has changed, which I
> > think would have a significant impact on building instruction size. LEGO does
> > occasionally show cropped portions of whole model images, but they don't do that
> > as a general rule. But then again, they don't generally sell 25 foot tall Sears
> > towers.
> >
> > LPub already has a mechanism for identifying where callouts are added to a model
> > so it can place the arrows from the callout to the center of the callout usage.
> > I suppose it could do a similar thing for "parts added in this step" and crop
> > the image to contain those. I'm pretty sure that would not be the default
> > behavior though. Egads, more features.
> >
> > I gotta get through the backlog of bugs first.
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> No rush Kevin. There are probably not too many of us making instructions for
> models of this size, and we at least have (painful) workarounds in the interim.
> If you never get to it, I'm still very thankful for LPub, and if you do get to
> it, you are just that much more awesome.
Thanks Eric.
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> I've always thought that you should test out large LPub models by making
> instructions for your pneumatic hexapod and then giving them to me. ;-)
Well, let me tell you, that the hardest part about the pneumatic walkers is
getting all hoses on correctly. It is even harder within LDraw and LSynth! I
hear there is a new LSynth out there that produces much smaller files than it
used to though! LSynth is being better maintained than LPub, thanks to Don and
Willy.
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> Eric
Kevin
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| (...) No rush Kevin. There are probably not too many of us making instructions for models of this size, and we at least have (painful) workarounds in the interim. If you never get to it, I'm still very thankful for LPub, and if you do get to it, you (...) (15 years ago, 7-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad)
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