Andy has once posted a method to create instrument scales using Perl to output PostScript commands. While I like Perl, I'm not good at PS, so I tried an alternate approach: MetaPost.
MetaPost is a spin-off of MetaFont, which was designed to create the fonts for TeX. Is comes with typical TeX installations and should be available on any Linux/Unix workstation. Here's a small MetaPost file that I used to make the Bo105 rotor tacho (which is totally made up; need some expert advice first): http://members.aon.at/mfranz/tach.mp (1.9kB) It's still quite trivial and does only use a tiny fraction of MetaPost's possibilities. Also, it's not the best coding style yet. I'll probably make a library with common functions (like "arc") as I see need. MetaPost creates PostScript files, that I converted to png/rgb using "convert"/rle: http://members.aon.at/mfranz/tach.png (23kB) m. _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
