search

garyhodgson / prusa_mendel_visual_instructions

Prusa Mendel Visual Instructions
28 stars 7 forks source link

Convert Publisher file to more open friendly format #5

Closed garyhodgson closed 13 years ago

verbalshadow commented 13 years ago

I have the first draft of a latex version of this guide. I would like to get the images so it can be useful. http://pastebin.com/GZYuPQmT I can be connected my username @gmail.com

garyhodgson commented 13 years ago

Hi, I have uploaded the images to dropbox. There are two zip files:

One has all of the original PNG files I created whilst putting the document together - including alternative views of some steps. I think it should be easy to see how the images and the steps fit together: Step_1.png is step 1, anything with "supp" in the title means "supplemental", and anything with "Alternative" is a potential alternative view of the step.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22464622/Prusa%20Mendel%20Visual%20Instructions%20-%20Original%20Images.zip

Sadly, I used Publisher to scale and crop the images, and also to make the backgrounds transparent. The only way I have found to extract these modified images is to export the publisher document as a web page. This gives a folder of the modified PNG files, but unfortunately the names are replaced with a sequence number of the order in which I added the images to the document - so this doesn't match the actual sequence used in the document. Still, the images are there should you wish to use them.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22464622/Prusa%20Mendel%20Visual%20Instructions%20-%20Publisher%20Export%20Images.zip

Let me know if you need anything else.

garyhodgson commented 13 years ago

Conversion is not really an option now. The next guides will not be written in Publisher.