Archive for February, 2009

links for 2009-02-28

28th February 2009 by eamonn No Comments

Adjust a text frame to fit its content – Scribus Public Wiki
Using a scribus python script to adjust the size of a text frame to fit its content.
(tags: webpageprinting layout)

links for 2009-02-26

26th February 2009 by eamonn No Comments

Adaptive grid-based document layout
Charles Jacobs , Wilmot Li , Evan Schrier , David Bargeron , David Salesin, Adaptive grid-based document layout, ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), v.22 n.3, July 2003
(tags: webpageprinting layout)

XEP Engine < Products < XML to PDF, PostScript, AFP, Print – RenderX
(tags: library java webpageprinting layout)

links for 2009-02-25

25th February 2009 by eamonn No Comments

Ajaxian » Canvas2Image: Save out your canvas data to images
Javascript code to encode a canvas bitmap in base64
(tags: programming javascript webpageprinting)

Saving image to your server
Javascript code to grab image data and send it the server.
(tags: javascript webpageprinting tutorial)

Abused Strings Considered Harmful: Overuse of Strings to Represent Non-String Data Leads to Problems
I agree. I try [...]

links for 2009-02-22

22nd February 2009 by eamonn No Comments

Xvfb + Firefox :: semicomplete.com – Jordan Sissel
Capturing screenshots of web sites programatically from a server using firefox running under an X virtual frame buffer.
(tags: tutorial web linux webpageprinting)

links for 2009-02-19

19th February 2009 by eamonn No Comments

Haru Free PDF Library
C library that can be used to generate PDF documents
(tags: programming ruby c++ webpageprinting code library)

Well, I'm Back: Rendering Web Page To Images
Some JavaScript code from back in the early day's of Gecko's support of canvas.
(tags: javascript code programming webpageprinting)

Pixastic : Photo editing with JavaScript and canvas – Nihilogic
Nice JavaScript library for [...]

links for 2009-02-16

16th February 2009 by eamonn No Comments

Base64 Image Converter
Online tool that you can use to create the base64 representation of an image URL. Handy for creating inline data: URLs.
(tags: tool graphics)

links for 2009-02-15

15th February 2009 by eamonn No Comments

Academic Earth – Video lectures from the world's top scholars
Some interesting lectures here — I plan to audit some of them. (Thanks to Ian for the pointer.)
(tags: video todo)

links for 2009-02-12

12th February 2009 by eamonn No Comments

Newseum | Today's Front Pages | Gallery View
Front page images of newspapers from around the world.
(tags: webpageprinting news)

links for 2009-02-06

6th February 2009 by eamonn No Comments

Post by Eamonn O'Brien-Strain on Pixelpipe
(tags: ping.fm)

Testing Pixelpipe

5th February 2009 by eamonn No Comments

Posted via Pixelpipe.

links for 2009-02-05

5th February 2009 by eamonn No Comments

Cappuccino Web Framework – Build Desktop Class Applications in Objective-J and JavaScript
Impressive JavaScript framework for building apps that look like desktop apps. It implements a version of Objective-C in JavaScript and then builds a Cocoa-like framework on top of that.
(tags: programming web web2.0 language javascript)

Overlapping And Z Index – css-discuss
This clear and concise explanation [...]