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4 Jun 2005

Sat, 4 Jun 2005 20:38:07 GMT

raph: i am writing a metro parser! but you already knew that ;) if anybody has the new longhorn beta or some other means of acquiring metro test files, please contact me.

the mupdf firefox plugin is actually quite nice. get it here. now i just need some time and invest some effort into the linux port. my main problem is where to find a good scrollbar. i can draw my own (ick!), i can swallow gtk+ (double ick!), but i can not access firefox's own (infinite ick!).

more ickiness: i cannot send keyboard events that are uninteresting back to firefox. so all the standard menu and keyboard shortcuts are dead. stone dead. so stupid!

1 Feb 2005

Tue, 1 Feb 2005 19:02:09 GMT

this is what happens when you stay at raph's.

31 May 2003

Sat, 31 May 2003 12:50:13 GMT

woohoo! a tired drunken solar eclipse on the roof at dawn.

8 May 2003

Thu, 8 May 2003 23:48:29 GMT

Just saw that some of the most interesting bits of plan9 have been ported to Unix under a BSD license. Most notably, sane printf and regexp functions that work with utf8. Happy happy joy joy!

http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/~rsc/software/

Now all that's needed is a bullet through the POSIX header mess. I don't want to need to use autoconf/automake just to know what headers I need to get the basic libc functions. I just want to write...

#include <libc.h>

...and everything should just work. One header per library. No headers including other headers. No stupid inclusion guards. Okay?

20 Mar 2003

Thu, 20 Mar 2003 23:05:46 GMT

28 days later. watch it.

7 Dec 2002

Sat, 7 Dec 2002 01:08:06 GMT

Don't you just love it when a new release is smaller than the last, and does more?

Now MuPDF can draw bitmapped type3 fonts better than any other PDF viewer, and caches the rendered glyphs. It also handles most colorspaces (except separation, devicen, indexed and pattern) and is quite a bit faster.

http://www.df.lth.se/~mazirian/download/mupdf-0.5.tar.gz

22 Nov 2002

Fri, 22 Nov 2002 22:05:18 GMT

mupdf-0.4

I've done a bit of hacking on charcoal and mupdf lately. I reworked the rendering of charcoal and mupdf to incorporate littlecms color management. A lot of bugs were removed in the process, but some new ones were added as well... for some reason ICCBased color spaces don't work, nor does CalGray. I suspect that I am just not using littlecms correctly.

http://www.df.lth.se/~mazirian/download/

17 Nov 2002

Sun, 17 Nov 2002 10:02:26 GMT

Múm were beautiful last night.

5 Nov 2002

Tue, 5 Nov 2002 21:53:52 GMT

mupdf-0.3

Tumdidum. Thanks to gka, MuPdf now supports Type3 fonts. Various optimizations and countless bugfixes since the last release, find it at http://www.df.lth.se/~mazirian/download/.

26 Oct 2002

Sat, 26 Oct 2002 18:15:41 GMT

Reading all the reviews and ravings over RedHat 8.0 and all the slashdot flames over the KDE/Gnome unification awakened my curiosity. Today I installed it on my old pentium box.

First impressions: it sure is a lot prettier than most Linuxes. Smooth fonts even in the installer. Nice font selections and colors. I like the new icon theme. The start menu is still crowded, but a major improvement over last time I used Gnome.

But that's where the good stuff ends. Open the browser, and what do I see? Old Mozilla with ugly classic theme and core X fonts. Open the word processor and face an ugly windows-look-a-like UI with blotchy type1 core X fonts.

What good is this unified interface if none of the major applications use it?

Sigh. Oh well, at least it's a step in the right direction...