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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 12:55:04 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Ross Crawford wrote:
> 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.
> >
> > 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...
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 something without
searching around for fonts.
But for a really cheesy GUI you could probably write a 10 line tcl
script that opens a file browser and lets you select a font file
then run something like the command line above, except skip the
-MFhello.png and let ldglite open a small window with the txt2dat
output in it.
txt2dat -s AbCdEfG -c4 -p72 ariel.ttf | ldglite -v0 -- >NULL
Now where did I put that little tcl script for lpub...
Have funk,
Don
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| (...) 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 (20 years ago, 29-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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