On Monday 24 June 2013 13:30:01 TJoseph Powderly did opine: > On 06/22/2013 10:55 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Trying to generate a new printout of the lathes rockhopper.svg output, > > now that I have it working with a G33.1 move. > > > > IIRC I used gimp to make a .pdf out of it, but now neither Posterazor > > or poster can generate anything that can be loaded and viewed with gs > > or acroread, posterazor even claims 'can't load file' but no reason > > given. But acroread can open & display other .pdf's just fine. > > > > Has a library update managed to hose something poster or posterazor > > needs before it can digest? Poster goes thru the motions, supposedly > > generating a 15 megabyte 6 page document, but its unprintable, cannot > > be opened as anything but text by libreoffice for example. > > > > I'm fresh out of clues this morning it seems. :( > > > > Cheers, Gene > > Hi Gene, > got an svg file that i can try to process? > ( process = produce tape together billboard printouts ) > > regards > TjTr33 tomp First, I got it, its hanging on the inside of the shop door a/o yesterday. Second, in lathe-stf/halgraph.svg on my web page is the rockhopper output.
Now all I have to do is remember how I did it so I can do it again. Whatever I made the halgraph.eps file with added some semi accurate corner boxes that would have been considerably more useful if they were plain cross-hairs to be used as cutout guides, and I also could use a better, straighter cutting paper cutter, but the biggest problem by far was the uneven shrinkage of the paper between the imaging drums in my HL3170CDW printer, and laying somewhat curled up and cooled off, on the assembly table. Registration errors of 1/16" between the ends or sides of a sheet were not unusual because of that. IMO 24lb laser rated paper should NOT do that. It turned out that the 6 page long eps file was directly printable once I had gone into the printer and turned off the long edge binding for duplex in the menu. That option is broken anyway, the binding ditch is on the wrong edge of the paper. And no way to move it that I can find. So, many many thanks for the offer TomP, but I got it. That matching hal file might be the biggest one extant at 290 lines, if not its fairly close to the top of the list, and will be over 300 lines by the time I cobble up a 3 stage dynamic breaking function that will let me run a G33.1 loop with the spindle turning 500 or more revs. Currently its resistor is 16 ohms, 40 watts, and might be good for 3 stops in a row from 1500 revs before they melt down. One stop warms them to the uncomfortable stage. I've found 2 spare pins on the parport, and the output from a wcomp module watching the encoder should give me enough control to sequence ever lower resistor values as the revs fall. Unforch the nearest supplies of P&B ICE Cube relays and sockets is 25 miles up I-79 from me and I've miss-laid my round tuit, been busy with HD's committing harikari in this box, re- allocated sector counts are exploding. So 3 new 1Tb seacrate drives and 8 gb worth of memory to expand this box to its max memory are on a truck someplace between TN and WV. Busy, expensive week in store. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> is up! My views <http://www.armchairpatriot.com/What%20Has%20America%20Become.shtml> BOFH excuse #388: Bad user karma. A pen in the hand of this president is far more dangerous than 200 million guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
