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

[Trevor Page]

Ah, interesting to find someone doing a similar thing. The 'find edge'
feature was something I was going to use at a later stage once I had got
these initial problems out of the way. Out of interest do you have any
images of panels you've engraved like this on the web? I'm interested to see
what the results are like. Also, are you using the command-line version of
KVEC? (I don't know if a version with a GUI actually exists). Do you just
perform a simple conversion, or do you optimise it in anyway i.e. using
switches? Any particular settings that you find work best? I've briefly read
through the text file but not progressed much beyond the simple "kvec
test.bmp test.plt" yet.

I'm not sure if the conversion method would be the issue here though,
because I did view the HP-GL file beforehand and the border didn't appear to
be there. But I am not 100% sure here.

Also if it's cool with you, I'd like to send over one or two hp-gl samples
of what I've done, for your opinions.

Oh - I assume you are actually importing your files into Frontplatten here?

Cheers and thanks for the advice,

Trevor.


----- Original Message -----
From: <cyborgzero at comcast.net>
To: "Trevor Page" <trevor at resonance.fsnet.co.uk>;
<synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 11:53 PM
Subject: Re: [sdiy] [semiOT] Schaeffer Frontplatten HP-GL troubles


> 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.
> >
> >
> >
>
>