Dan Frakes Benjamin Drew wrote: 'How come the PDF's made in Panther are so large?...'
You could use any of a number of PDF 'shrinking' utilities, or even Acrobat. However, Panther has a built-in feature that can significantly reduce the size of Panther-generated PDF files during the creation process:
1. Access the Print dialog normally, but don't use the 'Save as PDF' command yet.
2. From the options pop-up menu in the Print dialog (the one that normally says Copies & Pages by default), choose ColorSync.
3. From the Quartz Filter pop-up menu that appears, choose Reduce File Size.
4. *Then* use the 'Save as PDF' command to create your PDF. (If you plan on using this option often, you may want to first create a new preset using the Presets pop-up menu in the Print dialog; this will allow you to create PDF files using this option in the future by simply selecting the preset before you create the PDF.)
This option won't reduce the size of PDF files as much as some of the third-party utilities on the market, but in some cases it works wonders... and it's free.
Wednesday, February 25, 2004
Smaller Panther PDFs - Colorsync option allows Quartz Shrinking (JPEG Compression)
Mac OS X Panther (10.3.2)
Monday, February 23, 2004
Report Google Link Spam
Report a Spam Result
Report sites that game google. When what you see isn't what you expected, copy here.
Report sites that game google. When what you see isn't what you expected, copy here.
smugmug - now if they'd only add preconfigured user print accounts
smugmug - easy photo sharing with the world's best online photo albums
Here's what I wrote them:
Smugmug looks extremely interesting. Maybe you'll do what I've been writing shutterfly and others about for about a year.
I want to create special prefunded preconfigured accounts for specific users to order prints with. Mother, aunt, grandmother, baby sitter, etc.
I would enter mailing addresses, username, password, default print size, and print budget when I set up their accounts.
They would login to my smugmug page and choose their name from a list. They would be asked a password.
Then they would see a simple app for specifying images to print. Then click done. They see a confirmatory screen and confirm.
That's IT. They don't enter credit card info, uname, pword, address, ANYTHING. They only click, enter password, select print, confirm. Prints get mailed to them.
When my account runs low I'm notified to add more money.
HUGE time saver for me. I don't have to worry about shipping, selecting, anything.
Include a special account without an address. That's to give to parents at a party, so they can get prints.
Do this and you'll be drowning in print orders. Money, money, money.
If you weren't already planning to do this, you can give me 10 free prints as a gesture of your eternal gratitude.
Here's what I wrote them:
Smugmug looks extremely interesting. Maybe you'll do what I've been writing shutterfly and others about for about a year.
I want to create special prefunded preconfigured accounts for specific users to order prints with. Mother, aunt, grandmother, baby sitter, etc.
I would enter mailing addresses, username, password, default print size, and print budget when I set up their accounts.
They would login to my smugmug page and choose their name from a list. They would be asked a password.
Then they would see a simple app for specifying images to print. Then click done. They see a confirmatory screen and confirm.
That's IT. They don't enter credit card info, uname, pword, address, ANYTHING. They only click, enter password, select print, confirm. Prints get mailed to them.
When my account runs low I'm notified to add more money.
HUGE time saver for me. I don't have to worry about shipping, selecting, anything.
Include a special account without an address. That's to give to parents at a party, so they can get prints.
Do this and you'll be drowning in print orders. Money, money, money.
If you weren't already planning to do this, you can give me 10 free prints as a gesture of your eternal gratitude.
Friday, February 20, 2004
Google Viewer and Safari quick keys
Google Viewer
Google viewer is a google experiment -- it generates a slideshow view. I put in on my Safari toolbar, then I (re)discovered that the Cmd-Number keys map to toobar items.
So cmd-1 brings up BlogThis!, cmd-2 TinyUrl, cmd-3 Google Viewer, etc. It's actually FASTER to use this technique for googling than to use the google search field in Safari. In one keystroke I can enter my search term rather than clicking and entering ...
Google viewer is a google experiment -- it generates a slideshow view. I put in on my Safari toolbar, then I (re)discovered that the Cmd-Number keys map to toobar items.
So cmd-1 brings up BlogThis!, cmd-2 TinyUrl, cmd-3 Google Viewer, etc. It's actually FASTER to use this technique for googling than to use the google search field in Safari. In one keystroke I can enter my search term rather than clicking and entering ...
Wednesday, February 18, 2004
macosxhints - Turn off auto-deletion of 'internet-enabled' disk images
macosxhints - Stop special treatment of 'internet-enabled' disk images: "defaults write com.apple.frameworks.diskimages skip-idme true"
Another replies: "A much simpler way is just to option-click the link. It downloads to your default location, but doesn't open."
Another replies: "A much simpler way is just to option-click the link. It downloads to your default location, but doesn't open."
Apache based alternatives to .Mac: PHPiCalendar and iCal
Greg Westin: Using PHP iCalendar to View iCal Calendars Online
Nice web site on doing things with Apache and open source instead of .Mac.
Nice web site on doing things with Apache and open source instead of .Mac.
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