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RE: Printing Tiled Plans - 3/19/2004 6:09:32 AM

nightflyer01

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Hey, I got it to work, apparently the problem was with my web browser.
Thanks
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RE: Printing Tiled Plans - Free Program - 3/26/2004 5:00:16 AM

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Great program, work out a few of the
bugs and make it more user friendlier.
Fix it to work on DXF and I'll pay
serious money for the program.

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RE: Printing Tiled Plans - 3/26/2004 5:10:14 AM

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Making it work with dxf wouldn't be a fix, it would be an enhancement.

I hear ya though, thanks for the feedback.

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RE: Printing Tiled Plans - Free Program - 3/26/2004 6:42:53 AM

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quote:

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Fix it to work on DXF .....

But there's already some free CAD's and at least a couple of DXF view/printer programs out there that do this. Ya gots ta remember that DXF isn't a graphic format. It's a set of coordinates that describe how a program re-draws the original drawing. And since you can load it into a CAD program you can rescale it with very little effort to whatever you want. Sorry but I don't see this as a problem at all.

The image graphics that the Tile Print program works with has always been the classic problem rather than DXF files.

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RE: Printing Tiled Plans - 3/26/2004 6:52:12 AM

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Not to mention the fact that an OCX, DLL or SDK would have to be pruchased and/or licensed in order to add DXF functionality which would mean I would have to charge a reasonable fee to cover costs. You can always copy and paste.

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RE: Printing Tiled Plans - 3/26/2004 7:02:45 AM

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....You can always copy and paste.

REALLY? From a CAD file viewer to the TilePrint ? I'll have to try that.

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RE: Printing Tiled Plans - 3/26/2004 11:44:44 AM

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You should be able to copy from any vector (CAD) program and paste into a raster program like paint, photoshop or tileprint . I'm not sure whether the source program or Windows determines what resolution the resulting raster image is, but with some programs it's not bad and with others it's unusable.

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RE: Printing Tiled Plans - 3/26/2004 12:56:32 PM

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Ok, I've been playing with OLE a little and I've figured something pretty cool. I can select a document and then link to whatever is a reader for that file type and pull the image from the host application. In the case of autocad it pulls in an image of the viewing window, but with Turbocad it pulls in the entire document at high resolution.

The really neat thing is that I should be able to read any file on the system as long as there is a registered reader. I just tried a Photoshop PSD file and even an Excel spreadsheet and they worked. I tried it with a PDF and all I got was a Acrobat icon, so I guess Acrobat doesn't support OLE graphics, but the copy and paste method works well with Acrobat.

So, while I can't read a dxf file natively, I can pull the data into tileprint providing there is an application installed on the machine that supports OLE and can read dxf files.

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RE: Printing Tiled Plans - 3/27/2004 6:30:44 AM

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I just found an open source project that I can use to enhance TilePrint . With this I will be able to add support for reading and saving many raster formats including Kodak PhotoCD, Targa, PSD and

TIFF

. There are many other formats that I can add including some older ones like Commodore 64 Koala, and Amiga IFF.

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RE: Printing Tiled Plans - 3/27/2004 12:07:17 PM

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Hoo-ahhh! Man, my old Amiga 2000 still works! It even has a 20 MB hard drive!

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RE: Printing Tiled Plans - 3/27/2004 12:22:59 PM

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I miss my Amiga 500.

It had a huge 75 Meg IDE drive and a 68010 processor. I upgraded the ram to 1 Meg by piggybacking ram chips. There must have been over 500 solder connections!

At least I still have my Vic 20 and beloved Commodore 64 .

I still remember the commercial back when I wanted one soooooo bad. "You can write with it, create with it, telecommunicate with it, your Commodore siiiiiixty four."

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RE: Printing Tiled Plans - 3/27/2004 12:38:49 PM

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I knew NOTHING about 'puters when I bought my A2000; I bought it from a discount outlet in N.Y. that catered to amateur video geeks (me) and the guy on the phone steered me to the 2000 with an extra 8 megs of RAM and a SuperGen Genlock. For years, it didn't even have a hard drive, had to load EVERYTHING from floppies! It was years later that I finally got a used 20 meg SCSI drive for it. It all still works except for the genlock, dangit....can't find anyone to fix it!

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RE: Printing Tiled Plans - 3/27/2004 12:44:07 PM

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Try these links to e B a y

http://****/5cj6

http://****/5cj7

You could also try to find a used Video Toaster.

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RE: Printing Tiled Plans TIFF, DXF & DWG! - 3/29/2004 8:38:36 AM

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I hope I don't hurt my arm patting myself on the back, but I managed to get DXF and DWG reading to work!

As an added bonus TilePrint will also serve as a pretty slick vector to raster converter, which means you can save a dxf as a bitmap, tiff, jpeg etc. In my testing I've been able to convert to raster files at up to 7 megapixels.

That's the good news. The bad news is that I will have to start charging a small fee to cover some of my costs, but it will be worth it.

I've also added a few things like a hand tool for scrolling, fit width, fit screen and mousewheel zooming.

I need to clean up a bunch of stuff, add some more error checking and do up a help file, but I hope to have the new version ready for downloading soon.

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RE: Printing Tiled Plans TIFF, DXF & DWG! - 3/29/2004 3:00:02 PM

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Sign me up Bipe! Fabulous application,
Let us know when it's ready to rock.
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RE: Printing Tiled Plans - Tile Print 2! - 4/25/2004 10:36:59 AM