Generating the printed comic with ReportLab
My Percy Street comic strip is published on-line at 100 dpi, using HTML to arrange the panels on the page. I draw the pages at 300 dpi, which should be just high enough resolution to print on paper. The printed version uses PDF rather than HTML to lay out the page. (The page has to be laid out because I am drawing each panel as a separate image.) Read more
AppleScript: The second-worst of all scripting languages*
I have just wasted half an afternoon failing to write a simple AppleScript program to extract information from iPhoto. The problem is not actually in extracting the info. The problem is the AppleScript language makes doing anything useful with the data extremely hard. Read more
Photos from Mull
This Semptember we went to visit my mother Jenny in her home in Tobermory on the Isle of Mull. I took with me my brand new camera and took some photos from Tobermory (and the journeys to and from). Read more
Moron AppleScript
My problem with AppleScript is its patchy documentation and the needless complexity of its syntax. I am also crippled by my two decades’ experience of using more consistently designed programming languages. Read more