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Re: txt2dat - Create LDraw files from text
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Fri, 29 Apr 2005 02:18:57 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Don Heyse wrote:
> In lugnet.cad.dev, Ross Crawford wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've just uploaded the first beta version of txt2dat, a command-line
> > program to create LDraw files from text. It has been developed using
> > cygwin and mingw on Windows XP, and has not been fully tested in any
> > other environments.
> >
> > You can download it
> > <http://www.br-eng.info/about/lego/LDraw/txt2dat/index.htm here>.
> > If you wanna give it a go, and let me know if you can get it to work,
> > please feel free.
>
> Wow, that's cool! LDRAW stuff sent to stdout. I finally get to
> try ldglite with a pipe from a real program, and it all seems to
> work.
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> txt2dat -s hello -c 4 -p 72 c:\windows\fonts\ariel.ttf | ldglite -i1
> -MFhello.png --
>
> Thanks. That was fun,
Nuthin like a good ol' command line utility ;) though I wouldn't be adverse to
someone creating a nice graphical interface - working out which font file to use
is a bit of a pain sometimes...
ROSCO
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 | | Re: txt2dat - Create LDraw files from text
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| (...) Yeah, I was gonna suggest you convert the "font" from the ldraw lettered tiles into a cheesy builtin internal font, which would be used by default. Then add a -f before the font if you can find a better one somewhere. That way you could make (...) (20 years ago, 29-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
| | | Re: txt2dat - Create LDraw files from text
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| (...) Quick hack: (URL) (Exe + Delphi 5 source, 270 kB) (...) I googled for it (going from font name to font file) and could only find the advice to enumerate all font files and read the info in them. Sounds like loads of work :-( I did it the other (...) (20 years ago, 30-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: txt2dat - Create LDraw files from text
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| (...) Wow, that's cool! LDRAW stuff sent to stdout. I finally get to try ldglite with a pipe from a real program, and it all seems to work. txt2dat -s hello -c 4 -p 72 c:\windows\fonts\ariel.ttf | ldglite -i1 -MFhello.png -- Thanks. That was fun, (...) (20 years ago, 18-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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