MiniWeb.CZ

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Maybe some of you already know it: MiniWeb.CZ

This site is the place to be for cardmodeldesigns scaled at 1:100. This is a very popular area in papermodels in Czechia and Slowakia:

http://www.minimodel.cz/index.html

Dig around and you'll find hundreds of carmodels. Very detailed.
Most are in a highres resolution or even vectorized. Thus can nicely be enlarged.

Last update contains 8 airfield-vehicles. See here:

http://www.minimodel.cz/modely-8.kola.html

Enjoy!

For thoise already familiar: a reminder never hurts...
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I find the alternative site www.minibox.webz.cz - papírové modely v mìøítku 1:100 much easier to use, as regards locating models. They are all of the same ones.

[JohnM]

http://www.minimodel.cz/files/mack-super-liner.pdf

I downloaded this from them, but there seems to be something seriously wrong with the .pdf file.

Does it work (or not) for anyone else, or is it just my ancient Sempron/XP computer running too slow to calculate the unflattened layers?

Page 1 is slow to load, but page 2 takes forever. Moving from page 3 back to 2 crashes Adobe reader to (Not Responding) and bluescreens Foxit Reader completely.

I'd be interested to know what causes this slow drawing syndrome, as I have several other similarly affected PDF files, and would like to 'cure' them if it is at all possible.

Johnny.

[imcold]

JohnM: there's way, waaay too many little details and gradient fills and whatnot that are invisible or almost invisible at normal scale, that's why it's murdering any program trying to open it. Solution would be to convert every page to bitmap at at least 200 dpi, even hi-res pictures would be much much easier to crunch.

[DeadlyTedly]

I'm afraid it might be your computer. Even though it is only 3 pages, it is a 22 MB vector file, with complex textures. Try a memory upgrade. It is a nicely detailed model, for its scale (1:100), in two liveries.

[imcold]

Open it in Gimp, takes a while, but it won't run out of memory.

[JohnM]

Originally Posted by DeadlyTedly

I'm afraid it might be your computer. Even though it is only 3 pages, it is a 22 MB vector file, with complex textures. Try a memory upgrade. It is a nicely detailed model, for its scale (1:100), in two liveries.

By waiting very, very patiently, I've succeeded in getting all three pages up on screen and I can see that it's an excellent model.

Using an app. called 'PDF exchange viewer' (don't ask ... I think I got it from giveawayoftheday.com) I got it to load in all three pages within two minutes. Pressed 'Print' and it went away to think about it for twelve minutes, but then it actually printed all three pages. Of course the CISS rule 5 kicked in and the yellow print head gummed up half way through page one. So I've got stripes all the way through it, but after a head clean, it begins to look like a print run might be possible.

I think the next stage might be to try imcold's suggestion of using GIMP though. I hadn't thought of that. Didn't know a .pdf would open in GIMP. I'm off to give it a go.

Johnny.

[JohnM]

Load .pdf into GIMP, selecting image not layers. (saves flattening the layers later).

Go and make a cuppa whilst it imports it.

Each page ends up in it's own window.

Just press print in each window.
or you can save it as a bmp or jpg.

SORTED.

As I said earlier ... didn't know you could open a pdf in GIMP.

I do now! I'm off to sort a few more slow pdfs in my stash.

Johnny.

[JohnM]

Of course, whilst you've got it in GIMP, you can re-draw things too.
Ideal for putting your own company name on the side of a truck, or changing colour schemes, etc.

[imcold]

I'm glad it worked for you