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Re: Image Editing: A guide to making Building Instructions
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lugnet.inst
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Thu, 4 Sep 2003 22:22:21 GMT
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In lugnet.inst, Ahui Herrera wrote:
Thank you very much.
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But might I suggest that we also need to focus on two other “BI Topics”.
- Making BIs that are PRINTABLE
- Making BIs for the Web
You covered the basic concept of what a good proffessional BI should look
like. That is something that all BI makers should know/read/live by but the
next issue becomes how to “show” the BI to the world.
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I agree that these topics are important. I may not have enough knowledge to put
together a tutorial for them. Hopefully, someone else would be interested.
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Take the output of
LPub and putting it on Brickshelf is NOT a BI! Neither is just putting up
a MLCAD file! (That however is another issue which I won’t be writing about
here)
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I agree again. Quality is an important factor missing in many instructions.
However, having a mlcad file is sometimes better that nothing.
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Most of us supply BIs via the web and a printable file is not possible due to
file size. =( Steve B. has dabbeled in making printable BIs and I think out
of all the people who make custom kits and sell them with BIs his (Steve’s)
ARE the best.
I’m not sure how many people have seen (in person) his train set BI book. It
is a wonderful book in terms or color, quality, images, etc... Steve gave me
the PPT file and its ~14MB big! So you see the delima about giving out a
high quality BI file. At 14MB only broadband users are going to be able to
download it and then only print it by taking to Kinkos. =( So this method is
not the way to go to give out BIs but IS the best way to go when trying to
print out “physically” a BI.
Which leaves us with other formats (PDF, Flash, HTM, etc...) PDF while
perhaps the best in terms of file size leaves a bad taste when viewing. =(
It looks good when printing on a home printer, however. =) HTM.. bla!
Flash, I have found is pertty good for web viewing but the printing is still
“bad”. =(
Anyways I’ve lost my train of thought....
In any case you or someone might want to focus on making articles on the
issues above.
-AHui
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A tutorial on printed instructions would be great. I have done this once for my
custom set but I do not have much experience. It does take longer to produce
the instructions and the file sizes are larger. Printing and assembling a
staple bound booklet was a pain. But it looked great!
Thank you for your feedback
Ben E
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| (...) VERY VERY VERY NICE! But might I suggest that we also need to focus on two other "BI Topics". Making BIs that are PRINTABLE Making BIs for the Web You covered the basic concept of what a good proffessional BI should look like. That is (...) (21 years ago, 4-Sep-03, to lugnet.inst, FTX)
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