… accidentally I stumbled about something I really wished for. User-specific site-packages (python-talk). As specified in “PEP 370 — Per user site-packages directory” a user’s home directory might now have a directory called .local which contains lib/python<version>/site-packages and also bin/.
For this sweetness of course no python PEP is needed, but here comes the beauty:
~/.local is kind of a new standard directory which is a “standard” suggested by freedesktop.org and already used by some other applications and
python ./setup.py install –user
will automatically install the required package there – which again is no big thing and could be archived via PREFIX=~/.local/ but this is feels natural, pythonic, good. All now left to do is to add ~/.local/bin to the PATH-variable and ~/.local/lib/python<version>/site-packages/ to the PYTHONPATH (you should imo do this in ~/.profile).
So, using this, your virtualenv-usage might significantly decrease (though it does not make virtual environments useless).
*schnief* python chose the “wrong” VCS. Tell me why Guido – I don’t want to learn using another VCS.
Germany is getting damn stupid internetfiltering. Here’s the one line to circumvent it for unixoid operating systems.
… starting to code webapps in ActionScript3 I discovered (this widely known) tweening class. It’s truly comfortable and definitely the way to go when you have to tween.
… using this command on a regular base makes me feel cruel.
An (unbelievable ugly, but nevertheless life saving solution) is to be found here. ADOBE, this SUCKS! How the hell am I supposed to use bitmap fonts (and please don’t tell me I should not).
If anyone knows a sane way to suppress anti-aliasing for fonts, using Actionscript3 only – TELL ME – I’ll be grateful forever.
I tried generating a tiffg3 to push it through capifax and at first nothing worked.
This was my first solution (using ImageMagick, which uses GhostScript):
convert -density 204x98 -resize 1728x1186 \
-compress fax -monochrome -negate <in.pdf> <out.tiff>
Problem: the output is ugly (improvements welcome)
The second solution (using GhostScript-only) works a lot better:
gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dSAFER -dPARANOIDSAFER -dBATCH \
-sDEVICE='tiffg3' -sPAPERSIZE='a4' -r'204x169' \
-sOutputFile=<out.tiff> <in.pdf>
My favorite solution would be python only, … dream dream dream …
… just by pressing the Option-Key (the Key formally known as Alt-Key) when starting the application.
I just installed additional Quicklook-Plugins into ~/Library/QuickLook and refreshed the service via ‘qlmanage -r’ – works fine
This really nice project promises to send faxes from the command line under both Linux and Windows. The capifax command is part of a suite which also offers sending faxes via FritzBox-Phone from Linux - great.
