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# Re: [femm] addcontour, bitmaps and other LUA bits

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- Subject: Re: [femm] addcontour, bitmaps and other LUA bits
- From: "nasrul" <nasrul@suria.fke.utm.my>
- Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 16:04:10 +0800
- References: <000201c11f16$602ba860$0200a8c0@.hirstmagnetics>

    where can I get this LUA?
    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Robin Cornelius" <robin.cornelius@hirst-magnetics.com>
    To: <femm@yahoogroups.com>
    Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 3:55 PM
    Subject: RE: [femm] addcontour, bitmaps and other LUA bits

    >
    > --snip--
    >
    > >When drawing contours in the post-processor if you left click it picks
    the
    > >nearest point so it must know how to do it somehow - now I'm confused!
    >
    > Ah, I meant in the lua bits. In the user interface there are two separate
    > commands when in contour mode, left button and right button. One adds new
    > contours, one selects based on node positions. LUA currently only has the
    > add function.
    >
    > >Well the list could be endless but:
    > >
    > >I never (well hardly ever) use windows bitmaps (BMP) because they are so
    > >big, nearly 1.5M for a normal sized window dump. I usually use TIFF which
    > >only needs about 150k for the same dump and it can be compressed even
    > >smaller. However, if you are trying to make animations then probably the
    > >easiest form is GIF, which is also small in native form, smaller than
    TIFF
    > >I think. The only problem I have found with GIFs is that they tend to
    have
    > >a speckled background in what you would think should be white.
    > >
    > >You can of course convert from one form of bitmap to another. I use
    > >IrfanView to do this because its small, fast, can handle batch
    conversions
    > >and is FREE!
    >
    > >For inclusion in a document I usually use metafiles so the EMF copy in
    FEMM
    > >is useful.
    >
    > Any idea where I can get specifications on the file format for EMF. I
    think
    > it would be nice to use the 'more basic' bitmaps and a good efficient
    > picture like metafiles (and as these are the two options Dave has provided
    > anyway for copying to clipboard !). I think it wouldn't be unreasonable if
    > you require other formats to use an image editor with a batch convert
    > facility.
    >
    > Robin
    > robin.cornelius@hirst-magnetics.com
    >
    >
    >
    >
    >
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