On Thursday 31 January 2019 11:23:57 dave engvall wrote: > On 1/30/19 2:17 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 29 January 2019 23:50:44 Erik Christiansen wrote: > >> On 28.01.19 11:49, Gene Heskett wrote: > >>> The guy is still dragging his feet on english docs in a pdf format > >>> for this thing though. Docx is damned sure a looser IMNSHO. Even > >>> the latest 6.1.4 version of LibreOffice can't render it in a > >>> usable format. > >> > >> Dunno how 'orrible a plain text rendition from docx2txt would be, > >> but then there's not much to be expected in that format. > >> > >> $ apt-cache search docx > >> docx2txt - Convert Microsoft OOXML files to plain text > >> pandoc - general markup converter > >> > >> I've heard of pandoc being used, but whether with shouts of joy, > >> I'm again uninformed. It also came up in a search for "pdf", so may > >> very well be able to do the conversion for you. Worth a try, > >> perhaps. > >> > >> Erik > > > > Google Translate did the best job so far. But it prints a letter > > sized page in landscape format, clipping off the bottom 1.5" of the > > page, w/o carrying it over to the next page. Its better than nothing > > and did get me usable English. Incomplete of course because of the > > page clipping. Changing the portrait to landscape in the printer > > dialogue has no effect. I did 3 copies of that 64 page thing trying > > to get a portrait mode printout. Since that printer can do up to > > tabloid, 11x17 output, that might have worked but I'll be dipped if > > I'm going to feed 64 tabloid sheets thru the hand feed slot in the > > back of the printer. Sheet alignment is very critical, and I've made > > a feed tray but theres nothing on the back of the printer to give it > > a fixed alignment to the feed slot. Right Pain In The Ass is what it > > is. I have used it for rockhopper printouts though. They can usually > > be fitted to about 8 sheets of tabloid. > > > > Watch the heat down there Eric, I'm hearing reports of above 40C > > from your neck of the woods. Thats killer heat. Do what we call > > swamp (evaporative) coolers help? > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > In theory since postscript is just a programming language it should be > possible to rotate the text to portrait and make it fit. I used to do > simple stuff in postscript but full blown documents are complex. > Please note the usual caution: "the difference between theory and > practice is much larger than theory predicts". > Yup, both Yogi Berra and Murphy were correct, the basic files properties claim a 5.5x7" sheet, so I set it for landscape to rotate it 90, and page fit. Got 40 pages of very small print. Also found google quit translating in the middle of the 40th page of 64.
But I am getting a liddle bit schmartder, I have the pot working again so I can at least manually slow it down. And it looks like I'm using too much P in my g3 statements. I should be digging deeper per revolution around the circle. Since I'm climb cutting, that increase will bend the tool inward, but if I go into the spoil board it still ought to be a big enough hole. I did find I'd measured the ac cord gland wrong though, and had to run a step drill a step bigger to make that fit. Couldn't sleep last night, and since this interface is equ to setting up a brand new machine from scratch, I copied the old configs to a new name, and changed how I drive the SSR's that soft start the spindle supply, so now I have to open that box and remove a couple charge buckets and wire the SSR triggers direct to the minus terminals, while feeding 12 vots to the + terminals. I have the signals getting to the 7i76 card now, so making that 12mm 5 pin socket and its lead cable and installing it is next. Counting up what I need, I may need to make provisions for more than 9 of those connectors by the time I get it all hooked back up and running. After I get the spindle running, the rest is it is just asshole and elbows to get the steppers, gearshift and homes hooked up. The spindle will take some trickery as I'll have to set up 2 pwmgens in parallel because this card interrupts the pwm of the first pwmgen in the 5i25 and makes a 0-10 volt analog voltage suitable for driving a VFD, but with Jons E's. (pico systems) pwm-servo amp driving the spindle, I'll need the raw pwm from the second generator to feed the pwm-servo amp, letting the first circuit control the on-off and direction.. I am hitting that motor, rated at a horse, hard enough to peak right at 2hp. Rated at 90 volts and 9.7 amps, I'm hitting it with 126 volts, current limited to 17 amps. So a 2250 rpm spindle now turns almost 3 grand wide open. It hasn't complained, yet... > I wish you the best of luck. > > Dave > Back at you Dave, take care. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
