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Re: LPub Q's
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lugnet.cad
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Fri, 17 Sep 2010 20:31:30 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Kevin L. Clague wrote:
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In lugnet.cad, Mike Walsh wrote:
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Things seem fine through page 14, and then they go away. One of two things
come to mind. Either it is an LPub bug, or, possibly the page number is
hiding *under* the PLI? I’d make sure that the PLI is placed relative to the
page number.
You can always send me your MPD (which will be held in the strictest of
confidence), and I can look at it.
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I’ve moved the PLI around thinking it was underneath it but it didn’t seem to
make a difference. I will send you the MPD file so you can take a look at it.
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- The other issue I am dealing with is scaling - my Airport Shuttle is long - about 200 studs when it is all put together. This makes it hard to fit on a page. When I scale the final assembly all of the other step images scale too. I can’t seem to scale the image for just one step. Any ideas?
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Go to the final page, put your cursor on the assembly step and right click.
You should be able to set the model scale just for that step.
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I tried it but even though I told it to apply to only this step, the scale was
applied to the entire set of instructions. I will try it again and see if I can
get it to work.
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Any other suggestions are welcome.
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Given that your overall model is more wide than tall, had you considered
using a more landscape set of page dimensions? Go to page configuration and
swap the numbers in page dimensions to get landscape.
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I tried both landscape and portrait orientations and settled on portrait as it
seemed to fit the majority of the pages better.
Enhancement request: Allow per page size overrides! ;-)
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Did you know that you can resize PLI’s by dragging the mouse? It would seem
you might be able to merge page 11 and 12 if you shorten the PLI in step
7....
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I didn’t know that - I will give that a shot. I have a couple places where I
ended up with only one step on a page when it would make the instructions flow
better if there were two.
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Last question - is there a way to generate a complete BOM image for all of
the parts needed to build the model and add a BOM page at the end?
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Add a trailing cover page, then you should be able to use the “Insert BOM”
menu.
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Ok - got that working, thanks. The Insert BOM menu was greyed out until I added
the back cover page, just adding a page wasn’t sufficient.
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Thanks for the nice comments about LPub on your web page. Did you know that
you can create a cover page and insert a picture into the cover page? You
should not *have* to use Acrobat for that.
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I tried to create a cover page and insert an image but it was offset from the
top and left edges. My cover image is exactly 11x8.5, the same as my page size
and when I inserted the picture, it didn’t “fit” correctly. Even scaling the
picture down so it was smaller than the page didn’t fix the problem, I still
ended up with extra white space on the top and left and the picture not centered
on the page. I solved it by saving my cover image as a PDF in Photoshop and
then replacing the page in Acrobat. I think it makes the final file size larger
than it should be though.
Mike
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| (...) I found a bug in LPub. (...) Yes, your highest level model is interesting because the entire model is expressed as steps in submodels, so when it placed the model scale meta, it did it at the top of the step (which is before all the add lines (...) (14 years ago, 19-Sep-10, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| In lugnet.cad, Mike Walsh wrote: ... snipped ... (...) Things seem fine through page 14, and then they go away. One of two things come to mind. Either it is an LPub bug, or, possibly the page number is hiding the PLI? I'd make sure that the PLI is (...) (14 years ago, 17-Sep-10, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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