Re: xaralx package

On 15 September 2016 at 17:11, Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> wrote:

On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 05:03:23PM +0100, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> ???http://www.xaraxtreme.org/download.html???

"The binaries we distribute require libstdc++ version 5, which is not
installed as standard on some modern distributions (for example Ubuntu
5.10)."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_version_history#Ubuntu_5.10_.28Breezy_Badger.29

"Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger), released on 12 October 2005"

"Modern", they say. Heh.

If you can *get* it to compile at all, that seems like the best path.
APIs may have changed, especially with C++.

BTW, while I was looking at this, I discovered that the GIMP program can do pretty good 3D text effects.

I found a video on youtube giving a tutorial on this which seemed pretty good...

There are a number of 3D modelling packages like Art of Illusion and Blender that can also model 3D text as well.

Since I want stills, or a snapshot of a 3D image for my document then the GIMP seems a reasonable choice.

I suppose a screen dump or 2D projection of a 3D model made in AOI or Blender would work OK in a standard Libreoffice document with a bit of cut and paste editing etc.

Perhaps you would use different tools.

Sample 3D text images from xaraxl I found looked impressive but I think the package is too old so it's not really practical.....

Many thanks to everyone.

Regards

Michael Fothergill