Fucking print my fucking file, or: When will Microsoft Windows be ready for the Desktop?
All I want to do is print my fucking graphics files at a particular size on the fucking page. Nothing fancy. This image at this position at this size. That image at that position at that size. Read more
Mighty PostScript
The answer to the question posed rhetorically in my previous post is that Window’s overcomplicated printing system is what lies between Adobe’s SVG viewer and Adobe’s PostScript interpreter in my printer. Read more
Aggressive hatchbacks and crocuses
Yesterday I spotted a modified hoarding on Cowley Road that deserved recording, so today when we went out for lunch I took my digital camera and some fresh batteries. They even lasted long enough for me to take a few snaps of early crocuses in the Oxford Botanical Garden. Read more
Mozilla implements SVG while carefully remaining incompatible with the rest of the world
Good news, everyone! Mozilla now has a working SVG implementation thanks to Alex Fritze of croczilla.org. It even has suppport for plugging in platform-specific back-ends so that in principle the Mac OS X version might be able to exploit Quartz Extreme. Cool! This could mean a working SVG-enabled release of Mozilla sometime before I die of old age. Read more
The object tag postponed
I have belatedly updated my
note on using object tags to display SVG to reflect my
having removed object
tags from the Alleged Tarot because Safari cannot cope with them..
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Do not buy Samsung digital cameras
I hate discovering I've spend serious money on something that turns out to be no good—such as my Samsung DigiMax V3 digital camera. Read more