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Quartz Composer Forum. This is re: Facebook Home Quartz Composer.
stumbleup.in
“Based on stumbleupon , stumble through bookmarks on pinboard based on tags and find brilliant new content that isn’t already on the frontpage of your favorite social network.”
Just found this gem on the Pinboard Resources page.
Convert a List to OPML for Fargo with Drafts
This is crazy stuff. I still don’t get exactly how these URL’s work.
Posted June 16, 2013 at 3:30pm
iOS 7 Beta Tidbits
Nice roundup of some iOS 7 features, like per-app cellular data usage, semi-live wallpapers, etc.
pdf2svg
We use a lot of different design apps in this company because our output varies so dramatically. We have the web (JPG, GIF, SVG), we have videos (PDF, JPG, TIFF), and we have written documents (JPG, TIFF, SVG, PDF). Our designer prefers to use InDesign. And while I’m not a personal fan of InDesign, I can see its benefits. So, I want her to use InDesign, but I also want a more “open” exchange file format. PDF is usually the best candidate, but when it comes to web SVG beats PDF, because it can be rendered natively in the browser.
What I normally get are .eps (Encapsulated PostScript), opening these in Preview converts them to PDF[1]. Converting them to something I could use for the web, turned out to be more of an undertaking. Luckily there’s pdf2svg, which converted everything to SVG.
I tried several other tools, but none of them left the paths in one particular document intact. pdf2svg was the only one which did. I can recommend it.
The reason I’m writing this here: I always have a Linux somewhere in a virtual machine for these purposes. If you look at the dependencies of pdf2svg in Homebrew (brew info pdf2svg) you can spot gtk+. If you ever compiled the GNU Toolkit by yourself you know that’s not going to happen on my machine anytime soon. Linux (Ubuntu) has GTK already installed, so getting pdf2svg up and running is much easier that way.
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Note that this is a low-tech setup. I could have her export all formats, but if she’s not in the office that doesn’t work so well. ↩
Posted June 14, 2013 at 3:30pm
Debuggex
Debuggex is a visual regex tester and helper.
See the demo video for a quick look at Debuggex’s features.
Looks neat.
This is a small preview of km-markdown-library 2.
Progress is going pretty well so far. This video shows the Link New ability to fetch the title from a given URL. It’s not quite ready for public access, because there are some bugs in terms of deleting clipboard history, but if you are adventurous head over to GitHub and checkout the v2 branch.
Other changes:
- Improved link macros
- Wrapping text is now a Keyboard Maestro 6 plugin
- Macros use custom KM6 icons
- More intelligent Image macro.
- Preview selection in Marked
- Remove formatting of selection
Posted June 11, 2013 at 3:30pm
Text yourself when your Final Cut Pro X shares have completed
Totally unnecessary when you are rendering “over night” and it’s usually done by then, but I’m going to use this, just because…
Posted June 10, 2013 at 3:30pm
