Date: Sat, 3 May 2008 19:48:36 -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: <6A05A2CF-AFBB-4931-9B5E-607DBCB93F1B@langille.org> In-Reply-To: <32393800805031404i125f1954kbd51b90d429b83bd@mail.gmail.com> References: <66E39C57-074F-43FD-B91D-A06B71037F05@langille.org> <32393800805031320vae85eccp512b041a18aabca1@mail.gmail.com> <989FC6E6-F9B1-4777-A4FD-59E54896DB4C@langille.org> <32393800805031404i125f1954kbd51b90d429b83bd@mail.gmail.com>
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On May 3, 2008, at 5:04 PM, Johan Beisser wrote: > Yeah, that's Tiger. > > I don't know if leopard quartz composer constructs work in Tiger. It > might be worth a shot. > > You might also just want to play with QuartzComposer.app. Thanks. But not me... I have other stuff to do that only I can do. :) Hence my call for a volunteer to do this. > > On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> wrote: >> >> 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 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list >>>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat >>>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-chat- >>>> unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >>>> >>>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> >> Dan Langille -- http://www.langille.org/ >> dan@langille.org >> >> >> >> >> -- Dan Langille -- http://www.langille.org/ dan@langille.org
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