[Ldraw-content] Re: MOTM relaunch

[Timothy Gould]

Hi Willy,

Looks fine to me. I'd change
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Use a picture program to scales down the image portionally so that the
final width is 800 pixels.
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to
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Use a picture program to scales down the image portionally so that the
final width is 800 pixels. This can be done by using

mogrify -thumbnail 800x800 FILENAME.EXT

which also ensures that pictures which are taller than they are wide
will scale to fit in an 800x800 region as opposed to 800xN
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Tim


On 10/16/06, ldraw at holly-wood.it <ldraw at holly-wood.it> wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> Da : Orion Pobursky <orion at ldraw.org>
> A : ldraw-content at ldraw.org
> Oggetto : Re: [Ldraw-content] Re: MOTM relaunch
> Data : Sun, 15 Oct 2006 22:01:06 -1000
>
> > LDraw wrote:
> > > Orion Pobursky writes:
> > >> Orion Pobursky wrote:
> > >>> I just ran the posted script on my computer and
> > received a correct  >>> render.  To answer your previous
> > question the "-mF" tag off screen  >>> renders the whole
> > model and not the steps in the model vice the "-mS"  >>>
> > which renders the individual steps >>
> > >> P.S. I added some explanation of the batch script I
> > wrote to the MOTM  >> page:
> > >> http://www.ldraw.org/article/376
> > >
> > > I set up the contest for november. please crosscheck. I
> > > didn't use your  script. it worked fine with a small
> > > model but cut the "big ship" in  pieces. I therefore
> > > wrote a script for LDView: set
> > > LDVIEW_EXE="C:\Programme\MLCad\LDView\LDView.exe" for
> > %%a in ("MOTM_*.dat","MOTM_*.ldr","MOTM_*.mpd" ) do
> > > %LDVIEW_EXE%  "%%a" "-SaveSnapshot=%%~na1.png"
> > > -PreferenceSet=MOTM -SaveActualSize=0  -SaveImageType=1
> > > -SaveZoomToFit=1 -SaveWidth=1600 -SaveHeight=6000
> > > -AutoCrop=1 -DefaultLatLong=30,45 for %%a in
> > > ("MOTM_*.dat","MOTM_*.ldr","MOTM_*.mpd" ) do
> > %LDVIEW_EXE%  "%%a" "-SaveSnapshot=%%~na2.png"
> > > -PreferenceSet=MOTM -SaveActualSize=0  -SaveImageType=1
> > > -SaveZoomToFit=1 -SaveWidth=1600 -SaveHeight=6000
> > > -AutoCrop=1 -DefaultLatLong=25,215 the reslut can be
> > > seen in the gallery. comments? w.
> > > I played around with the order in the Entry ID column
> > > but it won't list  the newest - (115) first.
> >
> > Looks good to me.  I toyed with LDView for a while when I
> > retooled the  contest in 2004.
> >
> > -Orion
>
> I added some info to paragraph 1 and 2 in the howto article
> about things I learned during the setup of the contest. feel
> free to correct my grammar and wording.
>
> w.
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