Melchior FRANZ said: > 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):
Check out: http://www.airliners.net/open.file/438320/L/ > > 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: > Looks interesting. Thanks, Jim _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
