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Re: txt2dat - Create LDraw files from text
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Fri, 29 Apr 2005 14:57:03 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Don Heyse wrote:
In lugnet.cad.dev, Ross Crawford wrote:
In lugnet.cad.dev, Don Heyse wrote:
In lugnet.cad.dev, Ross Crawford wrote:
Hi all,


<snip>


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...

ahhh..... ummm.... LSynth?

LPub has its own built in cheezy little GUI!


Have funk,

Don

K



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  Re: txt2dat - Create LDraw files from text
 
(...) 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
 
(...) 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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