About "A Taste of Smalltalk"
Dan Rozenfarb
squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
Sat Oct 5 00:51:17 UTC 2002
I can do the same, just tell me which ones if you think it's worth the
effort.
> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org [mailto:squeak-dev-
> admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org] En nombre de Russell Penney
> Enviado el: Friday, October 04, 2002 9:29 PM
> Para: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> Asunto: RE: About "A Taste of Smalltalk"
>
> Ok time for me to stop just lurking.
>
> Why don't you put all the scanned jpegs on a swiki? I have no problem
> when I have a spare 10 minutes retyping a page in, other people can
> proof read my effort and make changes. If enough people take a couple
of
> pages each it should be done in no time ( I have NO idea how many
pages
> there are, I am being optimistic :-)
>
> Then turn it into a PDF, much smaller than bitmaps.
>
> Russell
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> [mailto:squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of
Jason
> Rogers
> Sent: Saturday, 5 October 2002 6:49 AM
> To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> Subject: RE: About "A Taste of Smalltalk"
>
> Great! Count me out... :)
>
> =jason
> [:question | ^One]
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> > [mailto:squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On
> > Behalf Of Bert Freudenberg
> > Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 3:57 PM
> > To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> > Subject: RE: About "A Taste of Smalltalk"
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Jason Rogers wrote:
> >
> > > That's a pretty laborious process though. Is there any
> > good way to
> > > automate the cropping?
> >
> > Of course. I use pnmtools all the time. They do an
> > incredible job at this kind of stuff. Typing a command
> > line to convert some images takes a lot less time than to
> > start The Gimp, at least on my machine. Here's a simple
> > command line to convert all jpeg images in a directory to
> > postscript, converting everything to pure black/white (to
> > save space) and cropping 100 pixels around:
> >
> > for f in *.jpg ; do djpeg $f|ppmtopgm|pgmtopbm
> > -threshold|pnmcut -left 100 -right -100 -top 100 -bottom
> > -100 | pnmtops -noturn >
> > `basename $f .jpg`.ps ; done
> >
> > You could throw in some other nifty stuff like (-scale option for
> > pnmtops), automatic removal of all white border (pnmcrop).
> >
> > This can also easily be followed by
> >
> > cat *.ps > t.ps
> > ps2pdf t.ps
> >
> > Doing this for t000.jpg to t028.jpg (downloaded per wget)
> > results in a 1 MB PDF, which is not too bad at 30 k/page,
> > IMO. See http://isgwww.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~bert/t.pdf
> >
> > -- Bert
> >
> >
> >
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