[R-390] Knob Drawings PDF's here

Thu Aug 15 07:29:43 EDT 2024

Gary,  Looks like you have put a lot of time and thought into these
drawings.

Is there a drawing for every part of a 390A?  Can they be named, organized
and indexed so they could be easily found and retrieved with the tools we
have on our website?  How many drawing files are there?  What version of a
390A are they for?  Can they currently be related to a specific sub-chassis?

Regards, Larry

On Wed, Aug 14, 2024 at 8:41 PM <gary.biasini at shaw.ca> wrote:

> I should have noted that, once you have the Index.DLF file with the titles
> added in, IndexR will allow you to search it for keywords in the title.
> See
> the attached screenshot for a search of the word "clamp" along with the
> result.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gary.biasini at shaw.ca <gary.biasini at shaw.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2024 9:24 PM
> To: 'Jacques Fortin' <jacques.f at videotron.ca>; 'Tom M.'
> <courir26 at yahoo.com>; 'r-390 at mailman.qth.net' <r-390 at mailman.qth.net>
> Subject: RE: [R-390] Knob Drawings PDF's here
>
> It looks like the Index.DLF files with descriptions were stripped from the
> message.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-390-bounces at mailman.qth.net <r-390-bounces at mailman.qth.net> On
> Behalf Of gary.biasini at shaw.ca
> Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2024 9:00 PM
> To: 'Jacques Fortin' <jacques.f at videotron.ca>; 'Tom M.'
> <courir26 at yahoo.com>; r-390 at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [R-390] Knob Drawings PDF's here
>
> Jacques,
>
> You got them from me.
>
> If you want all of the drawings, first off, you need to get the CD - I was
> offered the download by Carl Constanten some years ago.  If needed, I
> should
> be able to provide a link to the CD on my Onedrive - I wonder if we
> shouldn't just put the whole thing on R-390a.net with a searchable
> database?
> Unfortunately, I don't have the skills to do that but, I did have enough
> skill to put on my Windows desktop.
>
> 1.      As I think we have all discovered, the IndexR program on the CD
> with
> the diagrams only installs on Windows 95 but …. I found a more recent
> version of the program from the Army that works on Windows Vista, 7 and 10
> and, I assume, 11. You can download from here -
> https://g6msd.redstone.army.mil/msd_ref/IndexRSetup_V60031.exe  Windows 10
> will tell you that it may harm the computer and you need to jump through a
> few hoops to first download and then to run it to install.
>
> 2.      Once you install the IndexR program and run it:
>
> a.      click File – Open, Open a file of the selected type -  Index file
>
> b.      Navigate to where you have the documents from the CD filed and,
> under folder 17310 or 22971, click on the Index.DLF file.  So, that gets us
> the index to all the drawings that particular directory and I figured out
> how to get the files to open in the viewer program by double clicking.
>
>         i.      Under File | Configure, first click on the Directories Tab.
> Under there, I put the following:
>
>                 Index File Path: C:\Users\garyb\OneDrive\R-390A\R-390A
> Drawings [where I saved the drawings]
>                 Drawing Header File Path:
> C:\Users\garyb\OneDrive\R-390A\R-390A Drawings\17310 [You can also use
> 22971
> if you want to open the drawings in that folder]
>                 I left the next 2 directories as they were populated by the
> program.
>
> 3.      Rather than using an updated version of ImageR to open the image
> files (that’s the program on the CD), I decided to use XnView Classic or
> XnView MP.  If either of those programs are installed, then when you select
> the correct file in the IndexR program and it will open.  You can then
> print
> to PDF in that program. You must ensure that .c4 files are associated with
> the viewer program that you decide to use.
>
> I have added descriptions to the Index.DLF files under 17310 and 22971 and
> they are attached to be used in place of the index.DLF files on the CD.
>
> To "convert" to PDF, in the XnView program, select Print and under the
> printer select your favourite PDF printer - I use Microsoft Print to PDF
> and
> then save the output as a PDF.
>
> I spent some time one night editing some of the PDFs in Adobe Acrobat to
> make them fill more of a page when printing.  As an example, see the 2
> attached no. 86 under directory 13710/00/00, one original and one edited.
>
> Regards,
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-390-bounces at mailman.qth.net <r-390-bounces at mailman.qth.net> On
> Behalf Of Jacques Fortin
> Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2024 7:27 PM
> To: 'Tom M.' <courir26 at yahoo.com>; r-390 at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [R-390] Knob Drawings PDF's here
> Importance: High
>
> Thank you for your effort, Tom, but I already have those two since March
> and
> April 2019.
> I do not remember from where they came, however,,, I also have the four
> .pdf
> attached which I believe to came from the same dataset.
>
> Please let us know if more of those "old format" files can be successfully
> converted...
>
> 73, Jacques, VE2JFE in Montreal
>
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : r-390-bounces at mailman.qth.net <r-390-bounces at mailman.qth.net> De la
> part de Tom M. via R-390 Envoyé : 14 août 2024 14:35 À :
> r-390 at mailman.qth.net Objet : [R-390] Knob Drawings PDF's here
>
> I spent a good bit of time trying to housebreak the R-390A drawing set
> today.They are in C4 format.The original indexer and viewer would not work
> on my PC as the apps are 25 years old.  I found newer apps online but still
> could not get the indexer to work so I was flying blind in the documents
> (over 900) but eventually found the knob drawings.
> I then converted them to PDF.  See below.
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