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Re: LPub 2.2.0.0 Available
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Wed, 30 Apr 2003 12:08:52 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Kevin L. Clague writes:
In lugnet.cad, Tim Courtney writes:

(ahem, EPS output, ahem) ;-)

Tim, I'm not going to put your individual need ahead of features
that are useful to all.

But aren't we all interested in being able to make nice compact
printable versions of our building instructions?

IMO EPS and PDF are ideal formats for that.  And since it is
reasonably trivial to convert EPS to PDF, it makes sense to make
the program output EPS.

Play well,

Jacob
--
Jacob's LEGO aircraft:
                  http://jacob.sparre.dk/LEGO/Transport/Fly/



Message has 3 Replies:
  Re: LPub 2.2.0.0 Available
 
(...) Yeah, but I don't think it's trivial to convert from 3D LDR format to EPS. That's the problem. There are plenty of ways to Convert from a 3D format to a 2D representation suitable for printing, but most of them involve rasterization at some (...) (22 years ago, 30-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
  Re: LPub 2.2.0.0 Available
 
"Jacob Sparre Andersen" <sparre@nbi.dk> wrote in message (...) How about this? pnmtops(1) pnmtops(1) NAME pnmtops - convert portable anymap to PostScript SYNOPSIS pnmtops [-scale s] [-turn|-noturn] [-rle|-runlength] [-dpi n] [-width n] [-height n] (...) (22 years ago, 30-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
  Re: LPub 2.2.0.0 Available
 
My point was that EPS is not as generally useful as say, a page layout mechanism. The step layout controls that I just released are very cool, but when you try to do something like this: (URL) multiple steps packed together, the current mechanism (...) (22 years ago, 30-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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  Re: LPub 2.2.0.0 Available
 
(...) Tim, I'm not going to put your individual need ahead of features that are useful to all. So quit bugging me about EPS or I may *never* do it ;^) It is no where near the tops of my list. (...) Thanks! (...) Kevin (22 years ago, 29-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)

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