On 15 September 2016 at 17:11, Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 05:03:23PM +0100, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > ???http://www.xaraxtreme.org/download.html??? > > "The binaries we distribute require libstdc++ version 5, which is not > installed as standard on some modern distributions (for example Ubuntu > 5.10)." > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_version_history#Ubuntu_ > 5.10_.28Breezy_Badger.29 > > "Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger), released on 12 October 2005" > > "Modern", they say. Heh. > > If you can *get* it to compile at all, that seems like the best path. > APIs may have changed, especially with C++. > BTW, while I was looking at this, I discovered that the GIMP program can do pretty good 3D text effects. I found a video on youtube giving a tutorial on this which seemed pretty good... There are a number of 3D modelling packages like Art of Illusion and Blender that can also model 3D text as well. Since I want stills, or a snapshot of a 3D image for my document then the GIMP seems a reasonable choice. I suppose a screen dump or 2D projection of a 3D model made in AOI or Blender would work OK in a standard Libreoffice document with a bit of cut and paste editing etc. Perhaps you would use different tools. Sample 3D text images from xaraxl I found looked impressive but I think the package is too old so it's not really practical..... Many thanks to everyone. Regards Michael Fothergill
