you can't get any meta-information from the original font for things like kerning, hinting, baselines, etc. PDFs usually only include those glyphs that are actually used in the document so you might not be able to reconstruct the entire font from a single PDF.
Mostly wrong. You can get EVERYTHING except the metrics (kern table, spacing). You can convert PDF to PS, search in this to find the font as a PFA, cut and paste the convert that to PFB (t1tools, etc). If the font is subsetted, though, you don't get the entire character set. Your PFB will have the original hints, baseline, etc.
Here I'm talking about Type 1 fonts, Truetype is different -- I think it's somewhat mangled in a PDF file.
But unless there's some way to extract embedded fonts out of a.pdf I don't see what the problem is.
There is, I've done it a few times. Print the PDF to PostScript (using the oldest PS driver you can, such as a Win 3.1, is best, as it makes simpler PS). Then you can search throught the PS and often find the entire font as a PFA. Cut and paste, convert to PFB. Doesn't work if the font is subsetted (the best you can get is the actual characters used then). Also, you don't get the metrics. These can be synthesised in a font editor, but the original kerning may be hand tuned, and you won't have that (though Adobe has all their AFMs on their FTP site -- but their fonts are easily obtained anyway).
First they came for the Jews, but I did nothing because I am not a Jew. Then they came for the socialists, but I did nothing because I am not a socialist. Then they came for the Catholics, but I did nothing because I am not a Catholic. Finally, they came for me, but by then there was no one left to help me.
-- Pastor Niemoller (1946)
So you're saying someone who is convicted of a crime should never be allowed to be employed again.
The courts have already dealt with this guy, punished him, released him, and have him on file. If he reoffended, he'd do hard time, and he knows it.
You send him out on the streets and give him a grudge against society, be prepared for the consequences. Or as long as it's not in your back yard, it's fine?
America truly is well on the way to becoming a police state. I'm glad I live in China.
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Sorry, not in Haiku, but "ignorance" seems apt considering the usual/. editors' failure to read past the first para of a story.
From the article: Individuals and Internet service providers can license and use the mark for free, while businesses and bulk e-mail companies will pay to use it.
So the fucks will sell the right to spam using the haiku to bulk mailers.
It's also illegal to kill people under most situations, but if you're in imminent danger of death if you don't, you have an out. Almost every prohibition in law can be overriden by special circumstances. So if your movie theater has being hijacked and you're being forced to watch Police Academy VII at gunpoint, you will probably not be charged if you call a SWAT team to rescue you.
How can you have a documentary that documents something that didn't happen?
As usual, hardly anyone bothers to read the cited article. The film makers don't call it a "documentary".
This film is based on an alternative timeline to the Mercury-Gemini-Apollo era of reality - it is based on the premise that all that had been proposed in the early 1950's in Colliers actually came to pass - and sooner than they expected.
Through the expert use of special visual effects and computer-generated imagery (CGI), the world of wonder and imagination expressed though Collier's has become real. The film Man Conquers Space looks like a documentary from the 1960's, complete with varying grades of film quality, scratches and lab marks, and a tinny soundtrack - just the way it would appear today if it had indeed been made over 30 years ago on the limited budget afforded to documentary makers of that era.
If the RIAA has its way, and the court rules in its favour, it could result in all
Internet access from the US to China being cut off.
Since a lot of ISPs alrady bounce mail appearing to come from China, because of AMERICAN SPAMMERS who abuse their mail hosts, this would be in the fine American tradition, like Americans sending in troops to kill people growing drugs that AMERICANS WANT TO BUY.
I was wonderng if there was a Kazaa client for Macs, so I did a Google search for "Kazaa Macintosh". The first two hits were for
kazaa.metamule.com/kazaa-macintosh
and kazaa.metamule.com/kazaa-for-macintosh
Both these were gibberish pages ("If you are shopping for kazaa macintosh on the internet, then you had better stop here. Our site is considered among the premier kazaa macintosh locations around...")which immediately refreshed to another site. Obviously these are automaically generated subdomains, pages and text designed to gather search engines. Possibly they have little real effect beyond annoyance, as in this case there are NO real pages on the subject which would displace the bullshit pages.
There was a story recently about China developing its own Windows clone. Was that false or a misunderstanding?
Yes, it was a misunderstanding, caused by no one, especially the brain-dead editors, reading past the first paragraph of the story referenced in the People's Daily. So there were hundreds of bullshit posts about "cloning the Windows API", "Wine" etc, etc; when actually the substance was Open Office on Red Flag Linux.
Sad that Hemos thinks "lead" is spelt "lede". Sad that Slashdot has lameness filters but not a spellchecker.
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Yes, they're a series. I read part II following the first link on Sunday. even if you consider them two different stories, you might expect Timothy to notice that and mention it.
Maybe I'm getting bad-tempered, but I used to work for a website and edited up to 80 stories a day. I'm getting more and more annoyed a the lack of professionalism -- bad spelling, bad links, repeats -- that plague this site, when there are a dozen editors running one or two stories a day each.
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I know most of those who comment on stories don't read them, but for Christ's sake how can an "editor" who submits one or two stories a day duplicate himself after three days?
In Windows, moving an application folder from one drive to another drive can render the system more or less completely unusable.....
Oddly, the only system I know that got this right (and I don't know every OS, maybe BeOS and/or QNX do this too) was OS/2, which would update configuration files for any filesystem change.
Actually MacOS (dunno about OSX) does this. Just let an app install itself wherever it wants to. Then grab the folders and rename it, move it somewhere that makes sense to you. All the settings and aliases, wherever they are, still work and point to the new location. Very useful when you want to tidy up a machine.
Mac systems seem resistant to cruft, except for collecting lots of startup extensions, but these are easily turned off/deleted.
I wonder if people who sit at desks and write specs all day for military projects decided that only having to reboot now and then exceeds expectations as set by people not flying in the aircraft.
The story said "When avionics problems crop up now, pilots must restart the entire system as if rebooting a personal computer. Avionics tests are about halfway complete... There are some bugs that need to be worked out"
Routine rebooting (probably -- I hope) wouldn't be tolerated in the final sytem.
They ARE using Linux. The "win 98" crap was just from a reporter saying it would have similar abilities. See my other post for the details; this is Star Office on Red Flag Linux.
If anyone bothered to read the cited story in People's Daily, while it doesn't mention Linux, it DOES say "the Beijing municipal government bought software equivalent to Win 95 from Chinese companies such as CS&S and RedFlag. While the newly started two programs would make updates on this basis to improve the software to a level of Win98 and compatible with Office2000 and Word."
Red Flag is a Chinese Linux distro and something MSOffice compatible within a year doesn't leave many options other than Open/Star Office.
Further googling on CS&S finds it's the major Chinese software company, with a lot of products, including Linux and Unix, but tellingly
this on Sun's site: "Sun signed agreements with CS&S Network Technology Co., Ltd., Red Flag Software Co., Ltd. and Beijing Co-Create Open Source Software Co., Ltd. (Co-Soft). Under the terms of the agreements, these companies agreed to license and bundle StarSuite software as part of their Linux operating platform, which they OEM to PC vendors and also sell through retail and other channels."
Thus "Chinese Win 98" = Star Office on Red Flag Linux.
And I submitted all this yesterday. Slashdot, thy name is futility.
Right. A deep-cover al Qaeda suicide terrorist dressed as a pilot with perfect IDs is going to draw attention to himself by bitching about security.
Meanwhile, airlines are pushing to give easy wave-throughs to business-class travellers, while harassing economy-class more. Of course, the 9-11 terrorists WERE travelling in business class exactly to be closer to the cabin.
It's a myth that banning.cn spam is hurting dissidents. They can still surf the web and use 3rd-party web- based email. I ban all email from all Chinese, Hong Kong, Japan, and South Korean IP address blocks. I still get email from Chinese asking for technical help (Solaris on Intel and what not), which I answer.
So I thought people ignored my mail because they were assholes (I live in Hong Kong, therefore I must use a HK ISP). Instead, it's worse, they're blocking mail from 6 million people because some American MLM turd routes spam through some naive ISP here.
A better solution would be to block @hotmail.com, @yahoo.com, etc., only in cases where the IP is not from those e-mail service providers.
In that case. you'd block me out, since I use yahoo as my mailbox and reply address, while actually sending via my ISP's SMTP server.(Since it's faster and doesn't append advertising to my messages.) But I'm in Hong Kong, so all these smug Americans who "just IP block Asia" won't see me anyway. WTF am I supposed to do, dial up an ISP long distance?
No matter how the message has been routed, almost ALL spam originates from the US. If you're unleasing Ashcroft, let the prick use Carnivore to track the spammers down and put them in cages in Guantanamo.
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Mostly wrong. You can get EVERYTHING except the metrics (kern table, spacing). You can convert PDF to PS, search in this to find the font as a PFA, cut and paste the convert that to PFB (t1tools, etc). If the font is subsetted, though, you don't get the entire character set. Your PFB will have the original hints, baseline, etc.
Here I'm talking about Type 1 fonts, Truetype is different -- I think it's somewhat mangled in a PDF file.
There is, I've done it a few times. Print the PDF to PostScript (using the oldest PS driver you can, such as a Win 3.1, is best, as it makes simpler PS). Then you can search throught the PS and often find the entire font as a PFA. Cut and paste, convert to PFB. Doesn't work if the font is subsetted (the best you can get is the actual characters used then). Also, you don't get the metrics. These can be synthesised in a font editor, but the original kerning may be hand tuned, and you won't have that (though Adobe has all their AFMs on their FTP site -- but their fonts are easily obtained anyway).
So you're saying someone who is convicted of a crime should never be allowed to be employed again.
The courts have already dealt with this guy, punished him, released him, and have him on file. If he reoffended, he'd do hard time, and he knows it.
You send him out on the streets and give him a grudge against society, be prepared for the consequences. Or as long as it's not in your back yard, it's fine?
America truly is well on the way to becoming a police state. I'm glad I live in China.
From the article:
Individuals and Internet service providers can license and use the mark for free, while businesses and bulk e-mail companies will pay to use it.
So the fucks will sell the right to spam using the haiku to bulk mailers.
In all the hundreds of millions of theatre showings disrupted by assholes on mobile phones in the last ten years, has this EVER been the case?
It's also illegal to kill people under most situations, but if you're in imminent danger of death if you don't, you have an out. Almost every prohibition in law can be overriden by special circumstances. So if your movie theater has being hijacked and you're being forced to watch Police Academy VII at gunpoint, you will probably not be charged if you call a SWAT team to rescue you.
As usual, hardly anyone bothers to read the cited article. The film makers don't call it a "documentary".
Since a lot of ISPs alrady bounce mail appearing to come from China, because of AMERICAN SPAMMERS who abuse their mail hosts, this would be in the fine American tradition, like Americans sending in troops to kill people growing drugs that AMERICANS WANT TO BUY.
"First ever"?? We've had them in Hong Kong for several months. Also large-screen video ads on the walls opposite the platforms.
I was wonderng if there was a Kazaa client for Macs, so I did a Google search for "Kazaa Macintosh". The first two hits were for kazaa.metamule.com/kazaa-macintosh and kazaa.metamule.com/kazaa-for-macintosh Both these were gibberish pages ("If you are shopping for kazaa macintosh on the internet, then you had better stop here. Our site is considered among the premier kazaa macintosh locations around...")which immediately refreshed to another site. Obviously these are automaically generated subdomains, pages and text designed to gather search engines. Possibly they have little real effect beyond annoyance, as in this case there are NO real pages on the subject which would displace the bullshit pages.
Yes, it was a misunderstanding, caused by no one, especially the brain-dead editors, reading past the first paragraph of the story referenced in the People's Daily. So there were hundreds of bullshit posts about "cloning the Windows API", "Wine" etc, etc; when actually the substance was Open Office on Red Flag Linux.
Spelling flame backdraft -- I have to apologise.
Sad that Hemos thinks "lead" is spelt "lede". Sad that Slashdot has lameness filters but not a spellchecker.
Maybe I'm getting bad-tempered, but I used to work for a website and edited up to 80 stories a day. I'm getting more and more annoyed a the lack of professionalism -- bad spelling, bad links, repeats -- that plague this site, when there are a dozen editors running one or two stories a day each.
I know most of those who comment on stories don't read them, but for Christ's sake how can an "editor" who submits one or two stories a day duplicate himself after three days?
Mac systems seem resistant to cruft, except for collecting lots of startup extensions, but these are easily turned off/deleted.
However, the Wayback Machine IS permanent, though you can have stuff removed (or, more precisely, not publicly accessible).
When will Slashdot editors USE their fucking spell-checkers?
MOZLLA? Slashdot does 6 or 8 stories a day. About one per editor. I used to edit 80 stories a day for a news site.
The story said "When avionics problems crop up now, pilots must restart the entire system as if rebooting a personal computer. Avionics tests are about halfway complete ... There are some bugs that need to be worked out"
Routine rebooting (probably -- I hope) wouldn't be tolerated in the final sytem.
They ARE using Linux. The "win 98" crap was just from a reporter saying it would have similar abilities. See my other post for the details; this is Star Office on Red Flag Linux.
Red Flag is a Chinese Linux distro and something MSOffice compatible within a year doesn't leave many options other than Open/Star Office.
Further googling on CS&S finds it's the major Chinese software company, with a lot of products, including Linux and Unix, but tellingly this on Sun's site: "Sun signed agreements with CS&S Network Technology Co., Ltd., Red Flag Software Co., Ltd. and Beijing Co-Create Open Source Software Co., Ltd. (Co-Soft). Under the terms of the agreements, these companies agreed to license and bundle StarSuite software as part of their Linux operating platform, which they OEM to PC vendors and also sell through retail and other channels."
Thus "Chinese Win 98" = Star Office on Red Flag Linux.
And I submitted all this yesterday. Slashdot, thy name is futility.
Meanwhile, airlines are pushing to give easy wave-throughs to business-class travellers, while harassing economy-class more. Of course, the 9-11 terrorists WERE travelling in business class exactly to be closer to the cabin.
All window-dressing.
How does one get to be an "editor" if one is illiterate and/or too lazy/arrogant to use a spell checker?
It's a myth that banning .cn spam is hurting dissidents. They can still surf the web and use 3rd-party web- based email. I ban all email from all Chinese, Hong Kong, Japan, and South Korean IP address blocks. I still get email from Chinese asking for technical help (Solaris on Intel and what not), which I answer.
So I thought people ignored my mail because they were assholes (I live in Hong Kong, therefore I must use a HK ISP). Instead, it's worse, they're blocking mail from 6 million people because some American MLM turd routes spam through some naive ISP here.
No matter how the message has been routed, almost ALL spam originates from the US. If you're unleasing Ashcroft, let the prick use Carnivore to track the spammers down and put them in cages in Guantanamo.