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> Cynical guess: they were originally created in some format which was much
> more
> web-friendly, or easily exportable to HTML in the original application,
> but
> he's giving you high resolution bitmaps of printouts.
>
> You may have a duty as a computer scientist to stop this problem from
> happening
> again next time.
Or even fix it this time. Find out who created the catalogue, and if they
can send you the original documents (or at least PDFs of the original,
rather than scanned print-outs).
Tell your boss that nobody puts stuff like this on the web, and if you do
you will be labelled as an old fashioned company with no IT skills ;-)
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"scott" <sco### [at] scott com> wrote in message
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>> Cynical guess: they were originally created in some format which was much
>> more
>> web-friendly, or easily exportable to HTML in the original application,
>> but
>> he's giving you high resolution bitmaps of printouts.
>>
>> You may have a duty as a computer scientist to stop this problem from
>> happening
>> again next time.
>
> Or even fix it this time. Find out who created the catalogue, and if they
> can send you the original documents (or at least PDFs of the original,
> rather than scanned print-outs).
Well, yeah I could, but I'm not sure I'll bother, I mean, with the hi res
images, I could just printscreen them to PaintShop or something and then use
Irfanview to compress, and just zip up JPEGs.
>
> Tell your boss that nobody puts stuff like this on the web, and if you do
> you will be labelled as an old fashioned company with no IT skills ;-)
That's exactly what I thought. I mean, isn't a website a catalogue
anyway? I know the reason behind it though, the boss doesn't want to pay for
a catalogue to go to New Zealand, Australia, Canada, etc. He's been moaning
about it recently, tight git. :) (Heh, that felt good!)
~Steve~
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St. wrote:
> That's exactly what I thought. I mean, isn't a website a catalogue
> anyway? I know the reason behind it though, the boss doesn't want to pay for
> a catalogue to go to New Zealand, Australia, Canada, etc. He's been moaning
> about it recently, tight git. :) (Heh, that felt good!)
*slap*
Diago: Ooo, Manny, do that again...
*slap*
Diago: Hey, he likes it!
Manny: It's makin' me feel better goo.
Sid: Very funny guys. :-P
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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"Chris Cason" <del### [at] deletethistoopovrayorg> wrote in
message news:4889b5b7@news.povray.org...
> Invisible wrote:
>> However... how to actually alter such details? I have no idea.
>> Theoretically Ghostscript probably allows you to do something - but good
>> luck working out how!
>
> One possibility that avoids the need to edit the files is to install
> PDFCreator (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/), and then print
> the PDF's to PDF (PDFCreator allows you to set the compression level).
Thanks Chris, I'm trying this now, but I'm getting hassle with a 'JIT
debugger' issue, so it won't install. I think I've got it covered though, as
I have to uninstall and reinstall a fresh .EXE of the .NET Framework.
>
> Also you might want to visit http://www.pdfforge.org/
If the above fails, I'll try this. Thanks again.
~Steve~
>
> -- Chris
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"gregjohn" <pte### [at] yahoocom> wrote in message
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> "St." <dot### [at] dotcom> wrote:
> You may have a duty as a computer scientist to stop this problem from
> happening
> again next time.
LOL! :) I wish...
~Steve~
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And lo on Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:11:50 +0100, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> did
spake, saying:
> gregjohn wrote:
>
>> You may have a duty as a computer scientist to stop this problem from
>> happening again next time.
>
> Ah. A wetware issue... These can be tricky to resolve.
Nah much easier; you can't threaten a machine with a crossbow.
--
Phil Cook
--
I once tried to be apathetic, but I just couldn't be bothered
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>> Ah. A wetware issue... These can be tricky to resolve.
>
> Nah much easier; you can't threaten a machine with a crossbow.
Au contaire... you *can* threaten a machine with a crossbow. It just
doesn't achieve very much. ;-)
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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"Chris Cason" <del### [at] deletethistoopovrayorg>
wrote in message news:4889b5b7@news.povray.org...
> Invisible wrote:
>> However... how to actually alter such details? I have no idea.
>> Theoretically Ghostscript probably allows you to do something -
>> but good
>> luck working out how!
>
> One possibility that avoids the need to edit the files is to
> install
> PDFCreator (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/), and
> then print
> the PDF's to PDF (PDFCreator allows you to set the compression
> level).
>
> Also you might want to visit http://www.pdfforge.org/
>
> -- Chris
PDFCreator is an excellent app: it nstalls as just another
*printer* on your system so you can direct any software's
print function to it and output a pdf file. Very useful.
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pan wrote:
> PDFCreator is an excellent app: it nstalls as just another
> *printer* on your system so you can direct any software's
> print function to it and output a pdf file. Very useful.
The only minor issue I've found with it is that you seen to have to have
the GUI window open for it to actually work. It's installed on our print
server, but until I log in and click the icon on the start menu, no jobs
get processed. :-(
Other than that minor irritation... yes, it's a useful thing to have.
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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St. wrote:
>
> That's exactly what I thought. I mean, isn't a website a catalogue
> anyway? I know the reason behind it though, the boss doesn't want to pay for
> a catalogue to go to New Zealand, Australia, Canada, etc. He's been moaning
> about it recently, tight git. :) (Heh, that felt good!)
PDF catalog as itself is a good idea, if you have products that someone
could like to check while being off-line.
> ~Steve~
--
Eero "Aero" Ahonen
http://www.zbxt.net
aer### [at] removethiszbxtnetinvalid
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