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Now that MLCad is supporting BFC, should we begin overhauling the parts database to take advantage of this? I'd be interested in working on this for a while. What is the status of the meta-command discussion? How close are we to closure? -John Van (25 years ago, 29-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I didn't see it, but I didn't look really hard at the windows specific code since I'm bypassing it for something more portable. If you still have the code I could try to paste it in with the other two formats. Don (25 years ago, 29-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Augh! How do these things get by us? I'll put this into the next update. And I promise that the 2000-01 vote is coming. Very soon. Really. Steve (...) (25 years ago, 29-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Leonardo: (...) So in "every" part you have put a "stud-slot-point" in all the places where a stud from another part can connect with this part. So if a stud on a non-transparent part is at the stud-slot of another non-transparent part, it is (...) (25 years ago, 29-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dev)
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Rui: (...) You are probably right, but JPEG is defined _for_ lossy compression. It is definitely not the correct choice if you want loss-less compression. (...) Maybe, but GIF is covered by a patent (not a problem in Europe yet), and PNG generally (...) (25 years ago, 29-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Don: (...) In some, but admittedly very few, cases GIF gives a better compression than PNG. (...) PNG does anything from 1 to (at least) 64 bit/pixel, including up to (at least) 16 bit/pixel graduated transparency. Play well, Jacob ---...--- -- (...) (25 years ago, 29-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) A long time ago I submited a patch to make ldlite save 256 color bitmaps, was it never applied ? (...) (URL) but most Linux distributions have it too. Leonardo (25 years ago, 29-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) From what I've seen PNG gives BETTER compression than GIF for flat shaded ldlite type images, and as far as I can tell it only does 32bpp true color. I put a sample PNG on the ldglite web page if you want to try converting to various formats (...) (25 years ago, 29-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: A discovery? and part 3475
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John VanZwieten <john_vanzwieten@email.msn.com> wrote in message news:Fs5MrI.325@lugnet.com... (...) can (...) show (...) Never mind--you answered in another post. -John Van (25 years ago, 28-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev)
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John Jensen <skurt@vip.cybercity.dk> wrote in message news:18a2esk6si8dbum...4ax.com... (...) Why not just use the ring and cone primitives? Used in combinations, you can create just about any size ring or cone from these primitives, and they show (...) (25 years ago, 28-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev)
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