On 12/01/2014 12:46 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: >>>>> The updated documentation is online at: >>>>> http://www.vagrearg.org/content/gcmc-into >>>> Should be: >>>> http://www.vagrearg.org/content/gcmc-intro >>> Yes. is this very complete web page available in pdf for making dead >>> tree copies? It would be bound and occupy the shelf beside the >>> monitor in my case. >> Hm, no, not as such. But you could get the source html in the browser >> (from the distro or webpage) and do a "Print to File" as a Postscript >> file. Then run: >> $ ps2pdf -dOptimize=true -dEmbedAllFonts=true -sPAPERSIZE=a4 myfile.ps >> (or whatever papaer size you require) that will give you a "myfile.pdf" >> file. Then you can print that pdf on a printer using dead trees, bind >> it and put it on the shelf. >> However, it might be easier to save the html locally and read it >> locally in the browser or print it from your browser directly then ;-) > > Which is what I just did, and punched & mounted in a folder. But in > looking it over, it seems to me that writing what I want it to do in a new > language, and then translating it into gcode adds more complexity than I > would have just writing it in gcode in the first place.
Well, that is a matter of opinion, I guess. It is often easier to revert to old habits instead of learning new tricks. I know because I tend to do that too all too often (boy I feel old now ;-) The point being, using a new language means thinking at a different level of abstraction, which is always a steep learning curve. Speaking for my self, I just got fed up with plain gcode's archaics and wanted more structure. > I have it in mind > to have a couple vars in it which will be used as multipliers so I can > control which set of these huge box fingers is being cut by inverting the > shape of the cut in the y direction depending on whether a var is 1.0000 > or 0.00000. >... [snip] ... Wow, you lost me there. > Today is a good day, I woke up. :) This I can relate to :-) -- Greetings Bertho (disclaimers are disclaimed) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157005751&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
