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Re: DAT to GIF/JPG/EPS
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lugnet.cad
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Wed, 24 Jan 2001 15:02:41 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Jacob Sparre Andersen writes:
> And if you want to improve the looks of the model, you can render
> the model in double size, and then scale down the images:
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> ldglite-run -i2 -ms -s2 -w2 model.mpd
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> foreach file ( /usr/local/share/ldraw/bitmap/model*.png )
> pngtopnm < ${file} | pnmscale 0.5 | cjpeg > `basename ${file} .png`.jpeg
> pngtopnm < ${file} | pnmscale 0.5 | ppmtogif > `basename ${file} .png`.gif
> end
Did you use this double size method to generate the recently posted horse
and cow instructions? They look nice.
I might have to reorder my priorities. I've been working on replacing the
pathetic ldglite gui with something a bit more user friendly (but still
portable). Perhaps I should get back to working on the tiled renderer so
the double size trick can be used on bigger models that don't fit on the
screen.
Don
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Message has 1 Reply:
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| Don: (...) Yes. The horse was double size and the cow and the reindeer were scaled up four times. (...) Please do. Play well, Jacob PS: Has anybody looked into writing a direct DAT/MPD to Postscript renderer? -- No .sig today either. (24 years ago, 25-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| Thomas: (...) LDGLite (see (URL) for installation instructions on Linux) can convert DAT and MPD files to PNG: ldglite-run -i2 -ms model.mpd Using netpbm/pbmplus (and tcsh) it is easy to convert the PNG files to GIF and JPEG: foreach file ( (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad)
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