[R-390] Knob Drawings PDF's here

Nick England navy.radio at gmail.com
Thu Aug 15 21:08:57 EDT 2024 

The pdf verson of all 1000 drawings are now posted here -
https://www.navy-radio.com/rcvrs/r390a/drawings/
The categories are ones Tom used as labels
These are all PRELIMINARY and subject to change as noted below.

I need to go through them all and check that my auto-crop didn't mess them
up.
Let me know if you find one that needs re-cropping.
I also need to put the multiple sheet drawings into combined files. I think
that will just have to be done manually so don't get too impatient

And we need to make descriptive file names for them all and I will build an
index based on that.
I am hoping that Gary's DFL will make that less tedious so hold off any
manual work.

many thanks to Tom for making this available.
Nick England K4NYW
www.navy-radio.com


On Thu, Aug 15, 2024 at 8:18 PM Barry <n4buq at knology.net> wrote:

> This brings back some memories for me.  I'm not sure, but I think the
> company I work for developed IndexR.
>
> Barry - N4BUQ
>
> > 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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