Subject:
|
Re: LDLite status (was Re: LDLite center offset problem?)
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.cad.dev
|
Date:
|
Mon, 4 Dec 2000 22:29:42 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
1370 times
|
| |
|
|
In lugnet.cad.dev, Paul Gyugyi writes:
> Please let me know who uses LDLite and how it is used.
> With all the other spin-around-and-view programs, I'm inclined
> just to concentrate on it being a tool to generate instruction
> sheets (sort of like LaTex or POV), rather than add interactive
> features (sort of like Word).
>
> My short list of work items:
> 1) Fix file system and file name bugs.
> 2) Fix memory/cachesize issues that cause large MPDs to fail.
> 3) Change output to PNG with alpha-channel so output can be
> overlayed on backgrounds.
> 4) Support 300 dpi resolution on an A4 sheet, on a machine
> with enough ram and disk.
> 5) Support setting the width in pixels of Type 2 and Type 5 lines.
I use the ldglite as my default viewer, and as we all know it's just
a thin port of the ldlite 1.6 source. I know I'm looking forward to some of
these new goodies and I think there might be one or two other linux/BSD/*nix
users out there who are be as well.
By the way, how do you plan on testing the transparent PNG files? I
fiddled with these a bit, but as far as I know the only way to see them on
windows or linux is to get a recent copy of Mozilla.
Don
|
|
Message is in Reply To:
 | | LDLite status (was Re: LDLite center offset problem?)
|
| Well, with the stock market tanking and the prospects of a manditory pre-IPO crunch-time fading, I may have spare cycles to do something over Christmas. Please let me know who uses LDLite and how it is used. With all the other spin-around-and-view (...) (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
|
11 Messages in This Thread:
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
