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... ago! Any comments or suggestions as to why or how to modify it to work? both roads are on a very slight curve BTW! Attachment: attach_1712_2336_double_slip_town _central.jpg 475 Last edited on 13 Jan 2014 22:49 by roythebus posted: 15 Jan 2014 17:10 from: Stephen Freeman Hi, I've been having a look at this and I think that possibly part of the problem is that you had not calibrated your printer. Having said that the closest match I can get to it is an 00-SF 1 in ... remember all these computer instructions. Thanks to all for the help so far. I have 2 of these slips to build, luckily both from the same template. posted: 26 Jan 2014 09:50 from: Stephen Freeman Hi, If you look at your jpg, it does say printer uncalibrated. If you copy the two related files into the folders where they should go you can then load your jpg as the bgs file. If you want to move the blades along, make sure your peg is on front of ...
... it as well? posted: 5 Oct 2020 11:22 from: roythebus Just thought maybe my /bgs wasn't readable, let's try a .box file. Attachment: attach_3159_3791_annington2.box 54 Last edited on 5 Oct 2020 11:26 by roythebus posted: 8 Oct 2020 10:22 from: Igor Kurgan @roythebus, Yes incl a bid of trams and the shipping yards. But that will be a project for over 10 years or something. A nice project for retirement also when the goats are away The field i have a ... the original wine files were lost. Let's try again! posted: 2 Oct 2020 22:22 from: Martin Wynne roythebus wrote: I'm trying to remember how to import a jpeg track plan into Templot. Hi Roy, You can simply drag and drop your JPG file onto the trackpad, the same way you did with the BGS3 file. It will create a background picture shape. Zoom out to see it. You will then need to resize it to the correct size for your model scale. There are some Frank ...
... this week (taking a lap top with Templot on to try and understand the method of operation, he has a wifi connection there)so we will meet up on his return and I will have a look at the angles posted: 8 Nov 2015 13:10 from: Martin Wynne Thanks John. TWAIN acquisition from the scanner turned out to be easier than I expected, thanks to a component from Roberto Zarrelli. This option means Templot can get the DPI directly from the scanner without asking the user. It should be ... leisure mode is fixed at 300dpi. I always use the professional mode in which I am offered a choice of 21 dpi values between 50 and 12800. In Windows Explorer, well for the version that I have in Windows 7, if you right click on a jpg* file that has been scanned and select properties and then details the dpi of the scan is shown. In the picture editing program that I use there is an option to see the information about the picture and this includes the pixel per inch (or sometimes ...
... not with the interactive stop-start functions needed for a tutorial. Only FBR and Flash format support those, see: http://templot.com/companion/index.html?add_slip_roads.htm 2. the file size is massively inflated -- for screen recording MP4 is typically 10 times the file size of FBR and Flash. Not just a bit more, 10 times more. I don't want my server to take the bandwidth hit from that. 3. the MP4 image quality for screen recording, at least on all the Windows/ ... keeps telling me all this, but it just isn't true. Presumably if Apple says it often enough everyone believes them. The HTML5 codecs use jpeg-style compression and it just isn't suitable for recording screen graphics. For still images we have two formats -- JPG for real-world camera photos and scans, and lossless PNG for line graphics. The difference between them is significant and clearly visible. It's blindingly obvious that we need two similar formats for moving images. At present the only lossless video formats I know about ...
... topic: 1769 Images from Google Earth into TDV? posted: 7 Jan 2012 02:10 from: andygall Hi all, I've been playing around with the TDV version and was wondering if it's possible to use images from Google Earth as a background? If so how do I do it? many thanks Andy. posted: 7 Jan 2012 02:30 from: Martin Wynne andygall wrote: I've been playing around with the TDV version and was wondering if it's possible to use images from Google Earth as a background? ... a screenshot first. See this video: http://www.templot.com/martweb/videos/map_picture_shape.exe More info: http://www.templot.com/martweb/gs_bgshape.htm Note that in TDV it is no longer necessary to use BMP format only, you can also use JPG, PNG and GIF image files. Also it is no longer necessary to save the file in the SHAPE-FILES folder. Also, you can now bend such images to fit your railway room, see: message 9830 regards, Martin. posted: 7 ...
... plan in my blog http://clecklewyke.wordpress.com but I cannot work out how to produce a file in a usable format, such as jpeg, from the .box file. Is there a facility in Templot to do this? Ian Everett posted: 2 Mar 2009 10:19 from: Chris Mitton Download and install a "virtual printer"- I use Win2PDF, obtainable from http://www.win2pdf.com. Define a page format big enough to show your entire plan (in Windows XP, you do this in Printers and ... //clecklewyke.wordpress.com but I cannot work out how to produce a file in a usable format, such as jpeg, from the .box file. Is there a facility in Templot to do this? Hi Ian,{ rant mode= on} First of all, JPG is not a suitable format -- in fact it's the worst possible. It's intended only for real-world photographic images and makes a complete mess of solid-colour screen graphics. Sorry to keep harping on about this, but time and again I see ...
... topic: 430 Background scans and Templot plans posted: 10 May 2008 05:04 from: Martyn Grainger Harrison I would like to show my first efforts with Templot (drawing over a scanned track plan) but seem to have problems combining the background scan and templates into one file to attach to an email. Can someone point me in the right direction? Many thanks Martyn Harrison posted: 10 May 2008 05:26 from: Martin Wynne Martyn Grainger Harrison wrote: I would like to show my first efforts with Templot ... simply copies it onto the Windows clipboard. Now start your image editing program such as PaintShopPro, or Windows Paint. Click the Edit> Paste menu item. The screen view from Templot will appear as an image. Now you can save your work as a single JPG or PNG image file. Use JPG format if the background scan covers a significant part of the screen area. If it's only a small part of the screen, you will get a better quality image by saving in PNG format. regards, Martin. Parts ...
... figure to create the picture shape. If still no joy, you can use the modify shape:> mouse actions:> scale mouse action to resize the picture shape in Templot to the best match to your track templates. regards, Martin. Last edited on 10 Nov 2012 11:53 by Martin Wynne posted: 31 Oct 2010 17:13 from: David Higgs Hello Martin, Many thanks for your reply; I should have mentioned that I had converted the GIF file into BMP file. I've managed to import the ... , you need to save it again in BMP format. Save it in the C:\TEMPLOT\SHAPE-FILES\ folder so that Templot can find it every time you reload the BGS file from there. Edits: Templot2 now supports GIF, PNG, JPG, in addition to BMP. For scanned items -- use JPG. For computer graphics and CAD drawings -- use PNG. Do not use JPG for these. It is no longer necessary to save the image file in the shapes folder. The video ...
... not taken up too much of your valuable time. Regards Ray. Edit- I should say I'm not trying to reproduce the Anyrail/Peco layout, just improve upon it. Last edited on 6 Jan 2012 18:33 by r_wilton posted: 7 Jan 2012 10:42 from: Howard Martin Wynne wrote: Instead you can do what you want with 3 transition curves: I have a similar problem, but I want the "warp" the background to fit using this neat facility in the TDV, and that only ... away and hope to make futher progress over the weekend. Ray Last edited on 7 Jan 2012 22:24 by r_wilton posted: 7 Jan 2012 22:51 from: Martin Wynne Hi Ray, Your problem with uploads is that you are saving the screenshots in JPG format. JPG should never be used for computer graphics -- it is intended for photographs and scans only. Always save screenshots in PNG format -- output> export a screenshot... menu item. The file will be smaller and the image will ...
... topic: 654 Making a screen shot posted: 4 Dec 2008 14:10 from: Gordon S I'm sure this has been covered before but searches on jpeg and screenshot have failed to throw out the answer. I have been asked to show my track plan by various people either on RMWeb or just emails between friends. How can I take a simple screenshot in jpeg format that can be sent by electronic mail? Clearly it can be done as I have seen screenshots appear in the railway modelling press and in this forum ... it does, but some things are beyond human understanding. It doesn't print anything.) 3. Start your favourite picture editor program or Windows Paint. 4. Click Edit> Paste. 5. Save the image -- but NOT, please not, in JPG format. JPG is totally unsuitable for screenshots and computer graphics, and will produce the largest file size and worst possible image quality. JPG is intended for real world images captured with a lens (from cameras and scanners). Save instead in GIF or PNG ...
31. PDF MAP
... correct percentage needed to change the second map to the correct size required and then resave it. I post this note in case someone else encounters similar problems. Tony W. Last edited on 19 Sep 2011 23:34 by Tony W posted: 20 Sep 2011 10:24 from: Alan Turner I know this is probably heresy but the way I would do it would be to print the pdf. Mark a grid on the print of known dimension (my preference would be to mark a grid that represents 1ft in the ... If you copy, you can paste it into your usual graphics editor program and then save the file for use in a picture shape. If you extract it, you can save the file directly from Nitro Reader, preferably in PNG format (please not the default JPG format). For TDV you can use an extracted PNG file directly as a picture shape. For Templot version 091c you need to open the file or paste the image into your graphics editor program, and then save in BMP format for the picture shape. ...
... be sure to tell the copyshop to ignore the file name and print at 100% on their machine, as before. Unfortunately there isn't an option to set a different output scaling factor for X and Y directions. regards, Martin. posted: 22 Apr 2017 10:42 from: leswaters Martin I completely forgot about the grid lines and I have taken onboard your suggestion. Just come in from the shed where the 3.1 metre long drawing is now laying on the baseboards. I have laid a pre-built B8 turnout ... the rails but the PDF file does not show them. Hi Les, Which PDF reader are you using? Do the timbers appear if you zoom in on the PDF? If not, please can you attach your PDF file here? Why do they want a JPG file? It's not practical to print that size from JPG. If they simply want an image to look at for reference, it would be far, far, better to give them a PNG. regards, Martin. posted: 18 Apr 2017 14: ...
... , I made a quick bit of Jing video in 3D from your .box file. Sorry no time to fix the lighting. No sign of extraneous track segments here: http://screencast.com/t /WsMeAxcJ2V regards, Martin. posted: 31 Jul 2008 10:06 from: Martin Wynne Hi Pimin, Here's your track plan exported to DXF as track centre-lines only, and then imported into 3PI as track objects. You can see that I was able to join on a Peco turnout in the usual way ... : 31 Jul 2008 09:39 from: pimin Martin, Thanks, I'll give all that a try. Yes I am seeing something very different when I import into 3PI. I see what you show AND a bunch of extraneous track segments. I'll post a jpg of it if it doesn't go away in the next round of playing with it. Pimin posted: 31 Jul 2008 09:47 from: Martin Wynne Hi Pimin, I made a quick bit of Jing video in 3D from your .box file. Sorry no ...
34. Video format
... codec -- e.g. TSCC -- the file size in MB depends on the amount of detail in the image, not the size of the image in pixels. Likewise with GIF and PNG format for static images. An image of a patch of single colour 10,000 x 6,000 pixels would occupy only a few bytes in a file. The way to keep file sizes small is to remove everything from the screen which is not needed in the video. Closing the info and zoom dialogs, and working without ... , will make a much smaller video file size -- provided you go nowhere near JPG and MPG formats, which should never be used for program screenshots and look awful when so used. I keep saying this, but the vast majority of Templot screenshots posted on forums such as RMweb are still in JPG format and look pretty dreadful as a result. 8-bit indexed PNG (256-colour) is far and away the best option. What screen area do you recommend is best for Templot tutorials? Some users are ...
... a larger than normal height clearance is necessary. To the left of the junction you can see the return curve which was the topic of an earlier question. Thanks for your help and all suggestions/criticisms are welcome. Cheers, Brian posted: 15 Aug 2007 10:26 from: Martin Wynne Hi Brian, brian_tuckey.png ©Peco Wow! Even after stretching it by 50% the curves are looking tight in P4. The low-level through station can be eased by putting the whole thing on a curve. Does the ... book! Brian, There are some cheap copies of the book in Amazon( .co.uk) market place at £1.89 and with postage to France of £3.75 it would be only £5.64. Just an idea. Also, I tried the link for the jpg and the zip files but the links don't work for me, are they still there or have you removed them? Finally, as with several CJF plans although a good concept (I looked at a 3 level version of this plan) you do have to ...
... by the number of folks who use JPG for line graphics, even on technical sites where you would think they would know better. But for video there is only the one HTML5 format, which is utterly useless for line graphics, with fuzzy images and file sizes 10 times larger than the same thing in Flash. Folks keep telling me HTML5 video is the way forward, but I have spent hours trying every setting in the book to get it to look as crisp as Flash, without success, and still with massive file ... will stop supporting Flash in 2020: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-40716304 Which is a great shame, because Flash is still the only lossless format for web use with screen capture video. For still images we sensibly have 2 formats -- JPG for real world images, and PNG for computer line graphics. Not that you would know it, judging by the number of folks who use JPG for line graphics, even on technical sites where you would think they would know better. But for video there ...
... . Are you still having problems with your background shapes or have you managed to sort it out by now. If not let me know and I will try and see if I can suss out what is going on. Tony W. posted: 7 Sep 2011 10:11 from: Bob Juleff Hi Tony, Many thanks for offering to help and I would like to take up your kind offer. The thing is I last played with Templot back in July and quite frankly became disillusioned with it. However I would like ... shape rather than vectorizing it to a DXF. There is a video showing how to import a scanned image as a picture shape: http://www.templot.com/martweb/videos/map_picture_shape.exe Note that this will be all-change in the next Pug -- JPG, PNG and GIF images will be supported in addition to BMP. You can try the changes now if you would like to join the TDV development group. regards, Martin. posted: 17 Jul 2011 17:25 from: Bob Juleff Hi Martin, ...
... topic: 1704 A tip from a newbie posted: 28 Nov 2011 22:50 from: Paul As a newbie I have found "A Little Gentle Geometry" a really good place to start. Cheers Paul posted: 9 Dec 2011 10:30 from: r_wilton Paul wrote: As a newbie I have found "A Little Gentle Geometry" a really good place to start. Cheers Paul Hi Paul, As a newbie myself that's a really useful link. I'm sure there's lots of other posts of this nature. ... 'Background and Scans' should be OK now. Hi Ray, There's a full video explanation here: http://www.templot.com/martweb/videos/map_picture_shape.exe Note that there are some changes in TDV and Templot2 -- you can now use PNG, GIF, JPG image files in addition to BMP, and they no longer need to be saved in the \SHAPE-FILES\ folder. regards, Martin. posted: 11 Dec 2011 19:15 from: r_wilton Many thanks Martin. Found the 'Companion' videos and ...
... because of the enormous degree of magnification, far beyond what is expected in other software. The internal bitmaps which are created can require hundreds of MB of available memory. If Windows has to swap things to and fro to make room, each template page can take 10 minutes to print. The first thing to do is to reduce the scanned DPI level. 600 dpi is tops, 300dpi or 200dpi will be fine for most scans. Some scanners can use much higher DPI settings if left to themselves and so create very large ... image down resulted in a proper print being produced. Is this all down to printer memory or associated issues? The PC has 32GB of memory of which about 26GB is available. Please let me know if I am missing something. I am saving the files as JPG from the scanner. Each of the scans is usually an area less than 25% of an A4 page. Cheers. Rob posted: 3 Jan 2018 03:46 from: Martin Wynne Rob Manchester wrote: Each of the scans is usually an area less ...
... free is so that I don't have to deal with emails like this. Nevertheless I would like to help if I can. Can anyone with Windows troubleshooting experience provide a reply which I can send him? Thanks. Martin. posted: 24 Aug 2013 22:10 from: Ian Allen Martin, Knowing which version of Windows he is using first will help, but first course of action after running a security scan would be to roll back his PC to an earlier date. For Windows 7: Start Control Panel System and ... . This is the third option down for me.- see if that makes a difference. I hope that the attached screenshot shows what I mean. Otherwise you have one of my holiday photos... Cheers Paul Attachment: attach_1655_2295_Screenshot_(59) .jpg 187 posted: 28 Aug 2013 09:29 from: John Schofield Hi Paul Thanks for that. I have updated in W8 before without problems and don't think I've changed any settings recently but it's something to think about so thanks John posted: 28 Aug 2013 ...
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