Hi Ron, Bill, Tony, etc.
>From what I'm hearing, in order to plot or engrave a Delta Cad drawing,
pasting the file into Adobe Illustrator will solve the problem and give the
user extra drawing capabilities as well. It seems like using a combination
of Zonwlak (or DC macros), Delta Cad and Adobe
Ron Anthony has had technical problems in sending the following to the
Sundial Mailing List.
Hopefully this will bypass the logjam.
Tony M.
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Subject: Re: Adobe Illustrator vs. Delta Cad
Sent:19/9/20 8:23 pm
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Ron Anthony concluded:
>I don't think there is a single solution that covers all of the aspects
>of designing, progamming, and physically making the dial.
Agreed!... and I'm sure that can only be a good thing. There is much to
be said for a diversity of approaches.
Tony M.
John Carmichael contributed
Big snip
>My important question is this: For those of us who need to engrave or plot
>sundial drawings, should we export Delta Cad drawings into Adobe Illustrator
>as some of you suggest, or should we abandon Delta Cad completely and just
>use Adobe Illustrator?
I s
Hello again:
I just had an afterthought. Maybe it would be possible to use Paint (in
Windows. program accessories) instead of Adobe illustrator for plotting and
engraving???
Steve Lelievre showed me how to paste Delta Cad drawings into Paint as bit
maps in order to e-mail a Delta Cad drawing at
Hello All:
It seems that the principal "defect" of Delta Cad is that plotting and
engraving machines cannot reproduce DC drawings without distorting the
drawings. As Steve Lelievre pointed out, this makes it difficult to turn a
drawing into the "real thing".
Several of you say that if a DC drawi
Dear Listers:
Well I did readings today and lo and behold there was a straight line
from E to W. One can read many accounts and none is as good as doing it
and seeing it for oneself.
Thanks for the discussion on this topic.
Maria
E 149°
S 37° 33'
Tim Yu wrote:
> [Sara]
> >>somebody once said to me that if someone does not understand you, you have
> >>not explained well enough!
>
> [Tony M.]
> >Or to take it a little further "The pupil should exceed the master or
> >the master has failed"
> >
> >Now who said that?
>
> Don't know, but her
Tim Yu contributed:
>Don't know, but here is another (I think it's an old Chinese saying):
>"When the student is ready, a teacher will appear."
and for why? Have you ever tried stopping one from telling you
something?
As the little girl said "This book told me more than I wanted to kno
