 | | Re: txt2dat - Create LDraw files from text —Don Heyse
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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)
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| | | | | Re: txt2dat - Create LDraw files from text —Kevin L. Clague
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| | | | | (...) <snip> (...) ahhh..... ummm.... LSynth? LPub has its own built in cheezy little GUI! (...) K (20 years ago, 29-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | Re: txt2dat - Create LDraw files from text —Don Heyse
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| | | | | | (...) Err... yeah, lsynth. That's why I couldn't find it. So now that I found it it looks a bit more than 10 lines. Oops. Anyhow, substitute txt2dat for lsynth, make a few little additions and ya get a cheesy GUI for txt2dat that sorta works. Enjoy, (...) (20 years ago, 29-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | Re: txt2dat - Create LDraw files from text —Ross Crawford
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| | | | | (...) All we need to generate the cheesy LEGO font file is an output-truetype module for autotrace, and a ready supply of lettered tiles ;) ROSCO (20 years ago, 29-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | Re: txt2dat - Create LDraw files from text —Don Heyse
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| | | | | | (...) That's not too hard to find. (URL) like a wrapper for autotrace and some other stuff. (...) Yeah, you got me there. I think I've got a couple a numbers from the harry potter house sets, and that's about it. Yer more likely to get the whole (...) (20 years ago, 30-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | Re: txt2dat - Create LDraw files from text —Ross Crawford
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| | | | | | (...) Actually, looking at the brick 1x1s with letters in LDraw, it should be possible to generate glyphs straight from the DAT files. Then it's just a matter of packaging them up nicely in a font file, saves having to convert it to a bitmap & back. (...) (20 years ago, 30-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | Re: txt2dat - Create LDraw files from text —Ross Crawford
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| | | | (...) Your wish is my command... well almost. (URL) (20 years ago, 9-May-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | Re: txt2dat - Create LDraw files from text —Don Heyse
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| | | | (...) coerce it into TrueType format? Always one to push my luck, I do have two little quibbles. I liked the way version 1.4 printed the usage info when running txt2dat with no args. Now it prints a weird error message. Also, the internal default (...) (20 years ago, 9-May-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: txt2dat - Create LDraw files from text —Ross Crawford
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| | | | | (...) Well I worked out the scale factor, and imported the DATs into an Access db (some had to have some stuff inlined first) then manually went through the polygons working out all the verteces and entered them directly using Font Creator. (...) (...) (20 years ago, 9-May-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: txt2dat - Create LDraw files from text —Ross Crawford
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| | | | (...) You can find it (URL) here>. ROSCO PS: Does anyone want the brick.ttf font? It's not really very useful because of the limited characters, but if anyone wants it, I'll make a separate download page for it. (20 years ago, 10-May-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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