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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 (...) (21 years ago, 30-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) You really should. I don't have as much free time these days so it's been a bit neglected by me. (...) Most of the code is in gleps.c. That's the part that needs work. Otherwise you can search for the variable EPS_OUTPUT_FIGURED_OUT in main.c. (...) (21 years ago, 30-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I know `pnmtops` very well (there's a bug in one of Red Hat's versions of it), but once you have rasterised a vector image, there is really no way to get back to the quality of the vector image again. Using `pnmtops` you will either get much (...) (21 years ago, 30-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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"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] (...) (21 years ago, 30-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) No it isn't. Bitmaps with Z buffering are much easier. (...) It sounds like I should spend more time looking at the source code for LDGLite. (...) I'm really too busy to do any work on it now, but I wouldn't mind knowing where to look, if I (...) (21 years ago, 30-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) 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 (...) (21 years ago, 30-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) 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 (...) (21 years ago, 30-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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Hello Cary, The test on Sun's pages only tells you that the java vm is installed, not that the "applets" in the browser are handled by the java plugin. In IE you can specify a java applet in 2 ways: you can use the <object (...) (21 years ago, 30-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Since I'm tired of people saying 'I don't like this format' or 'Could please post in this other format' or 'I hate MS so can you make it plain text', etc... I made a Lugnet page for the file format. (URL) it over. Note your suggestions. I'm still (...) (21 years ago, 30-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) format -- the ultimate in text file elegance -- replaced as the de-facto standard for exchanging models online, but an XML-based approach might actually be able to handle a functional superset of .ldr, .mpd, .dat, and .lxf files. If we (the (...) (21 years ago, 30-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Cool. Now if I could just get Netscape7/Mozilla to use the JDK I installed (which has J3D) instead of the one that came with it. Grrrr.... -Kyle (21 years ago, 29-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I take all this back. I just went back to your website and everything works. Strange. -Orion (21 years ago, 29-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) No, it's just I misspelled my address. Try bill with 2 l's -Orion (21 years ago, 29-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hmm Your Yahoo accoutn doesn't like you. :P (...) Even when you download them? The getting *any* applet to work these days, with all the different Plugins, and JDK's, and browsers can be a real pain. You may have JDK 1.4.1 and Java3D 1.3 may be (...) (21 years ago, 29-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I have J2RE 1.4.1 and Java3D 1.3 installed and I can't seem to run the program or the applets on your site -Orion (21 years ago, 29-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Would you be able to add a BOM generator? The current version allows for a BOM, but only after rendering all of the steps. When I am in a hurry, I like to print a graphical BOM, grab the pieces I need and build the model later when I have more time. (...) (21 years ago, 29-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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(...) I know I know... just razzin ya >;-) I love the stuff you've come out with so far. It's nothing short of revolutionary for the LDraw community. Please, keep it up! -Tim (21 years ago, 29-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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(...) ... I couldn't get it to work either. I installed Sun's Java, and if I visit that site, it says "Congratulations, it's installed". But if I run the Java compatibility test, IE 6.1 draws the gray square, and says "Applet failed to load", Opera (...) (21 years ago, 29-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) 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 (21 years ago, 29-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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(...) I'm really looking forward to this :-) I regret that I haven't had the time recently to play with the new LPub. I should download it on my spare machine and play there. I can't wait to see the new features you have in store! (ahem, EPS output, (...) (21 years ago, 29-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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