Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 13:30:55 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD poster idea. Message-ID: <20000722133054.D236@parish> In-Reply-To: <200007210537.HAA16376@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>; from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de on Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 07:37:26AM %2B0200 References: <8l65ub$bb7$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de> <200007210537.HAA16376@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
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On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 07:37:26AM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: > In list.freebsd-advocacy Kris Kennaway <kris@freebsd.org> wrote: > > FreeBSD 4.1 will ship containing 3605 ports in the ports collection - > > which is an *awful* lot of applications, when you think about it > > (although of course some of them are marked broken). > > I counted just 3596 ports, but well... still impressive. :) > > > Does anyone else think it would be cool to have a poster with a header > > something like: > > > > "FreeBSD 4.1: Now available with the following applications" > > > > followed by a big list of all 3605 ports? > > OK, I created one. This is not a particularly great piece > of artwork, but I think it's a good start. You can download > it from this URL: > > http://www.fromme.com/ports.ps.gz > > It is a simple black&white ISO-A0-sized poster, you can > preview it with "gv" (from the ports...) So how do you get gv to display the whole image? I can only see what appears to be the bottom left corner. There doesn't appear to be a way to specify A0 as the paper size. > and print it on > one of those nifty bubblejet A0 plotters. :) > > BTW, I made it with Gimp, TeX, netpbm (all from the ports, > of course), a small C program and a shell script. > > Regards > Oliver > > PS: ISO-A0 == 83.9611cm × 118.816cm == 33.0556in × 46.7778in > > -- > Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany > (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) > Addresses will change soon!! If in doubt: www.fromme.com > > "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" > (Terry Pratchett) > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message -- If I buy a copy of WinDelete, and it doesn't delete Windows, am I entitled to my money back? ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:marko@freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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