[sdiy] [semiOT] Schaeffer Frontplatten HP-GL troubles

[cyborgzero at comcast.net]

Well, your conversion method might be a bit of issue.

But, now, what I do is I use the "find edge" feature in Photoshop,
then tell kvec to put a line down the middle of the bitmap line.

Once the edges are found, its very easy for KVEC to deal with, but
KVEC has a very hard-to-tune edge find feature.

Also, too, KVEC is very bad about putting multiple parallel lines
instead of only one.


Rob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Trevor Page" <trevor at resonance.fsnet.co.uk>
To: <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 5:52 PM
Subject: [sdiy] [semiOT] Schaeffer Frontplatten HP-GL troubles


> Hi all,
>
> I'm currently working on a front panel design [for my TR909 clone
project]
> using Frontplatten Designer 2. I've encountered a problem regaring
importing
> HP-GL files, and since a good few people on the list also go to
Schaeffer
> for their panels, I'm wondering if someone here can help me in any
way.
>
> Basically I'm attempting to have a small picture engraved onto the
panel. I
> am drawing the image first as a bitmap (.bmp), and then converting
this to
> HP-GL vector format using KVEC. (I know that bitmap to vector
conversion
> isn't the most ideal thing in the world, but the results as viewed
in
> ViewCompanion are pretty good IMHO). So I have my hp-gl file. The
problem is
> that when I import this file into Frontplatten, it always shows a
solid
> border around the image. It's definately not there just to mark the
boundary
> of the image - when printing out the panel design, the border is
still
> there. I checked the hp-gl file using ViewCompanion again and that
border
> doesn't appear to be in the original file. The image looks fine;
it's just
> this annoying border that appears to be part of the image and
shouldn't be
> there. Frontplatten appears to be adding it.
>
> So I'm wondering if anyone else has encountered something similar?
I'd
> probably approach Schaeffer about this anyway, but thought I'd try
here
> first. Maybe I'm doing something wrong.
>
> Secondly, has anyone else attempted to get little vectored images
etc. onto
> Schaeffer panels? Were the results anything to shout about?
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Trevor.
>
>
>