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Re: LPub 2.1.0.8 Available
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lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev
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Wed, 16 Apr 2003 12:55:37 GMT
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In lugnet.announce, Kevin L. Clague writes:
> LPub 2.1.0.8 is available from http://www.users.qwest.net/~kclague.
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> This version of LPub adds these new features:
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> - Sub-assembly callout image generation
> - Unique construction image background colors for up to four sub-model levels.
> - Proof mode to make Lpub do a dry run through the entire model
> - Scroll bar for the console window
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> For sub-assembly callout image generation LPub packs sub-assembly step
> images together into a single larger image. The callout facility provides
> for four automatic step image placement schemes that provide for horizontal
> (http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/kclague/LPub/right-leg_1_00_co_0.jpg)
> or vertical
> (http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/kclague/LPub/left-leg_1_00_co_0.jpg)
> orientations. You can either explicitly list the steps in each row or column,
> and LPub figures out the size, or you can provide a size constraint. If you
> provide a limit to the X dimension, LPub figures out the Y dimension of the
> image. If you provide a Y limit, LPub figures out the X dimension of the image.
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> LPub provides meta-commands to control the type outline around the outside
> of the picture (none,rectangular or retangular with rounded corners), as
> well as its color and thickness. Meta-commands control the placement
> allocation scheme, the margins between images, the color and thickness of
> seperators between rows and/or columns. LPub's GUI allows you to select the
> font used for step numbering on a sub-model by sub-model basis.
This version of LPub does not support nested callouts, but this is in the
works. To make nested sub-model callouts work, I will provide new
meta-commands that describe the placement of a generated callout relative to
the current step image (complete with the triangles that point to where the
completed sub-assembly is placed in the step). LPub will use this
information to create a new image for the step that contains the
construction image and the callout(s) (there can be more than one). LPub
creates the deepest callout images and combined callout/step images first.
When LPub is told to create a callout for a higher level sub-assembly, it
will grab the combined callout/step images of the lower sub-assembly when
creating the new callout image. This gets you nested callout images.
One thing that will need to change is that LPub numbers its steps starting
at 0 (its a computer weenie thing), and LEGO starts its numbering at 1.
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> LPub provides additions to the GUI to allow you to select construction image
> background color on a sub-model level by sub-model level basis.
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> Feedback is always welcome.
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> Enjoy!
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> Kevin
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