New (to me) Little Tool

[Legacy_Tarot Redhand]

               I have just discovered a tool called TNGViewer. All that it does is to allow you to look at 3d models in any of 57 different formats including .obj and 3ds (although glitches sometimes occur with 3ds according to one review). This is useful if you import and convert models in other formats to nwn as it lets you "try before you buy" so to speak. The installer for this is only 5.75 (approx) meg and the program itself is freeware. While there is a mac version (if you can find it) I have been trying out the windows version. There is one important requirement to be able to use it and that is it needs directX 9. Unfortunately the creators website is no longer available but if you search you can find somewhere to download it from. To save you from having to search, I have put a copy of the installer in my dropbox public folder -> Get it here.

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[Legacy_Tarot Redhand]

               Another little tool that I just came across is called Images2PDF and is great for creating documentation from a series of images. It is freeware and you can get it here. The installer is less than 2.4meg. If you look around the site there is also a free tool called PDFCreator which is also free and can be found here. It creates a pseudo printer so anything you can print you can convert to pdf but the offline installer is just under 67meg and it insists that it needs to be connected to the net in order to use it. There is also a paid for pdf editor on here. But I only needed the small one so can't comment on the other two.

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[Legacy_Bannor Bloodfist]

               Thanks Tarot... I used to have a license for Adobe stuff, but they keep updating and changing their license schemes and my "lifetime" license no longer works, called them about it, and the new folks can't seem to remember that they used to offer a lifetime license etc, the best they would offer was a 10% off of the student license... which is still 50% of the original, so basically a 60% savings on the online license price.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_ShadowM]

               I use open office to make my PDFs and get ABBYY PDF Transformer 3.0 to work with them, but that one is not free.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Tarot Redhand]

               I personally use Nitro PDF Express which converts a lot of different file types into pdf format. There was a free licence in a UK magazine a few years back when the mags competed in that way. It converts loads of different file types into pdf. Unfortunately it will only convert a single image into a pdf file. That free one I gave the link for, converts a series of images (in a number of different formats) first (internally) to jpeg and thence into a single pdf, giving you the ability to set the quality of the images along the way. It also allows you to set the order of the images via drag'n'drop.

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                     Modifié par Tarot Redhand, 30 septembre 2013 - 12:07 .