small consulting job

2004-02-03 Thread Joseph Alotta
Greetings, I am looking for someone to write a subroutine for me involving graphics and pdf files. The sub would take some data and plot a line graph and output the graph as a pdf file. If you are interested in doing this, please email me back and I will send you more detailed specs and we can

Re: Image::Magick - Segmentation fault

2004-02-03 Thread kynan
Hi, This is sorted now. There was a mismatch between my versions of Image::Magick and Image Magick - a binary I got last week from Marc Lyanage (http://www.entropy.ch:16080/software/macosx/#imagemagick). Once I'd worked that out, I downloaded Marc's binary again, installed it and identify

Re: Mac::Glue and selections in iPhoto

2004-02-03 Thread John Delacour
At 1:59 pm +0100 3/2/04, Peter J. Hartmann wrote: Am 02.02.2004 um 19:04 schrieb John Delacour: If it were the Finder, you would need to say item 1 of (get selection) Same for Mail.app. It cost me quite a bit - too much in fact - time to find this out. Annoying. Is this somekind of a

Re: small consulting job

2004-02-03 Thread Doug McNutt
At 10:55 -0600 2/3/04, Joseph Alotta wrote: I am looking for someone to write a subroutine for me involving graphics and pdf files. Please reply to me offline with an email address that works.

MacPerl INC question

2004-02-03 Thread AWLeverenz
I've written the following to sweep a folder and set creator/type for pdf files (coming off a Linux server). This works from MacPerl, but I really need to run it from OSX Perl. How do I get Perl to use MacPerl.pm, which @INC can't locate? ( #!/usr/bin/perl use MacPerl; ... ). #!perl use

Re: display problem with gtk2-perl on OS X 10.3/ Fink 0.6

2004-02-03 Thread dominix
Dominix wrote: every gnome packages installed without problem, but when running the gtk-demo it look like http://www.ifrance.com/dominix/gtk-demo.JPG ... strange (no fonts ?) my aim is to use gtk2-perl (which compile and install fine) but has the same display problem. what is THE fix for

XML::Parser isn't working on OX 10.3.2

2004-02-03 Thread Noah Hoffman
Hello, I've just upgraded our build machines from 10.2.8 to 10.3.2 and now all of my perl scripts are broken. It seems XML::Parser is the culprit, I'm gettting an error of: Can't load '/usr/local/lib/libExpant.dylib' formodule XML::Parser::Expat: /usr/local/lib/libexpat.dylib(2): Not a

Scripting Photoshop with Mac::Glue

2004-02-03 Thread jacques couzteau
Hello scripters, I'm trying to change a picture's color mode to CMYK in Photoshop (besides: Can i do that with ImageMagick or something similar too ?) Currently I'm using an AppleSkript that does the job with the following line: tell application Adobe Photoshop CS to convert current document

Re: How do I open a file passed in to my script from the finder?

2004-02-03 Thread John Delacour
At 4:28 pm -0800 3/2/04, Julian M Catchen wrote: If, however, I do this: % open -a ZfishLabelPrinter ~/Desktop/label-5-192.zfdb (where ZfishLabelPrinter is the installed name of my perl script) it can't find the file and it isn't passed in @ARGV. Does anyone know what is happening here? Do I

[OT] MySQL for Web Apps

2004-02-03 Thread Bill Stephenson
If you're busy please forgive me and ignore this, if you have time to offer an opinion I'd really like to hear from this list on this subject; If I am building a web app from the ground up, what's the best way to deal with storing/retrieving data? For arguments sake let's say the app will

Re: [OT] MySQL for Web Apps

2004-02-03 Thread Rick Measham
On 4 Feb 2004, at 03:16 pm, Bill Stephenson wrote: As computers keep getting faster, and memory and storage cheaper, isn't it beneficial to program in the most simple, human readable, least learning required, method? Never. You're not going to ever read each 2500 user's 2000 x 40kb records

Re: [OT] MySQL for Web Apps

2004-02-03 Thread Rick Measham
On 4 Feb 2004, at 03:39 pm, kynan wrote: The idea of having XML in the DB is sound though, if you do it thoughtfully. So long as you're not planning on searching on it or indexing it or ... I once used XML to store information about a webpage as a PostGreSQL field ... but later down the track I

Re: [OT] MySQL for Web Apps

2004-02-03 Thread Chris Devers
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Bill Stephenson wrote: If I am building a web app from the ground up, what's the best way to deal with storing/retrieving data? It's not by accident that databases have come to be popular for this kind of work. Pick one -- MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, or something real --