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Date:      Sat, 3 May 2008 16:56:26 -0400
From:      Dan Langille <dan@langille.org>
To:        "Johan Beisser" <jb@caustic.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Chat <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Volunteer needed to create screen saver for BSDCan
Message-ID:  <989FC6E6-F9B1-4777-A4FD-59E54896DB4C@langille.org>
In-Reply-To: <32393800805031320vae85eccp512b041a18aabca1@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <66E39C57-074F-43FD-B91D-A06B71037F05@langille.org> <32393800805031320vae85eccp512b041a18aabca1@mail.gmail.com>

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On May 3, 2008, at 4:20 PM, Johan Beisser wrote:

> Leopard or Tiger?

Mac OS X 10.4.11 (8S2167), which I think is Tiger.

>
> On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Dan Langille <dan@langille.org>  
> wrote:
>> I need help.  I need someone to create a screen saver to run on my  
>> Mac.
>>  This screen saver will be used during the opening session of BSDCan.
>>
>>  In short; I have about 20 emails I wish to have displayed.  I can  
>> give you
>>  the emails or a PDF of each email, whichever you want.
>>
>>  I had tried using just the PDF and the "Pictures Folder" screen  
>> saver. This
>>  was a good start.  But each PDF contains large amounts of  
>> whitespace.
>>  Each email occupies very little of one PDF page.  Therefore, the  
>> screen
>> save
>>  often shows this whitespace and nothing else.
>>
>>  I'm not worried about how you achieve the result, but one  
>> suggestion I
>> thought
>>  of was : convert the PDF to an image file and crop off the  
>> whitespace.
>>
>>  Please contact me off-list and I will send you the PDFs/emails.   
>> Those with
>>  suggestions as to how to do this work are free to suggest, but I  
>> do not
>> want
>>  to do the work as other parts of BSDCan are higher priority right  
>> now.  :)
>>
>>  Thanks.
>>
>>  --
>>  Dan Langille -- http://www.langille.org/
>>  dan@langille.org
>>
>>
>>
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Dan Langille -- http://www.langille.org/
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