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    Re: Callout generation —Tim Courtney
   (...) Gotcha. This might be a tall order -- but would there be any way for LPub to create these callout elements such as numbers and lines in vector format, and write out an EPS? -Tim (21 years ago, 13-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
   
        Re: Callout generation —Kevin L. Clague
   (...) Encapsulated Post Script? Dunno anytin' bout it. (...) Kevin (21 years ago, 13-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
   
        Re: Callout generation —Tim Courtney
   (...) Understood. Would this sort of feature be possible with a plugin system, so someone else who did know about it could write that? Just curious. -Tim (21 years ago, 13-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
   
        Re: Callout generation —Kevin L. Clague
     (...) Yes. I'm sure. FYI, I new nothing about LDraw file formats before I wrote LPub either ;^) I'm thinking that the whole page layout (including formatting of callouts, and callouts within callouts), is a whole new layer of concept in LPub (or an (...) (21 years ago, 13-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
   
        Re: Callout generation —Jeroen de Haan
   (...) Hi Tim and Kevin, Since I'm a desktop publisher IRL and for longer I can remember I do know something about Postscript and Postscript programming. It is a fairly easy language to learn and understand. Think of it as POV but in 2D. I have a (...) (21 years ago, 13-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
   
        Re: Callout generation —Jeroen de Haan
     (...) Hi Kevin and Tim, Loads of info and URLs here: (URL) the mentioned book as PDF here: (URL) (21 years ago, 13-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
   
        Re: Callout generation —Jaco van der Molen
   (...) I recall some one (Dutch too) who started a Postscript project. It was about converting the LDraw format directly to PS. I asked this way back: (URL) (december 10 1999 :-) I got no reply... But then, Guido Heunen replied to another thread: (...) (21 years ago, 14-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 

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