On Sunday 13 March 2005 21:04, Gene Heskett wrote: >Donning my nomex underwear here.
I lost the ficticious bet at the bottom, it did make the list. >Using the 680 download from yesterday, I just composed a cover for a >manual I'm putting together for gEDA and gnucap, and I used the >simulated and gate graphic called geda-logo.xpm from the gEDA > package as a graphic insert in a one page 'text document' along > with some text in various font sizes up to 96. (sometimes we need > even more than 96) I printed it before even saving it using the > print icon on the toolbar. > >The colors looked great on screen, but with the printers color model >in spadmin set to anything other than RGB, which is hell on the > color inks to do black, the reds were so dark a brown as to be > invisible without both excellent color vision and really looking > closely at the output knowing where the red patches were supposed > to be. The yellows were a medium to dark orange/brown, and the > blues can only be seen by their effect on the glossiness of the > paper, and the greens, not much of it in that image, seem to be > contaminated with some black. > >In the RGB mode, it finally gave me what I wanted. Nice bright > reds, yellows, blues and greens in a line art pix on a black > background. At $30+ a whack for color cartridges for this printer, > that sucks the big one. > >I normally run this printer, an Epson c82 in the CMYK model, and it >did my christmas cards in that mode flawlessly in OOo-1.1.2 earlier >this fall using jpg images almost direct from my Olympus C3020 >camera. > >Seriously, this needs to be fixed before 2.0 final is out. > >My suggestion for a fix is to hand it off completely to the recent >gimp-print stuff, in my case its gutenprint-5.0beta2, not quite the >latest, but it drives my epson c82 flawlessly. Reinventing this >wheel draws too much blood IMO. > >Also, I was going to file a bug, but somebody seems to have gotten >plumb fscking paranoid, and although I registered this beta copy I >think, I didn't note if any traffic went out on the routers leds at >the time), that DIDN'T get me a username/password that I could log >into, required before I could file a bug report. Thats bullshit, >fresh, warm and usually found behind the male of the bovine species. > >Seriously speaking to Sun, if you want bug reports, let us file the >$onofabitch without all this username/password bull$hit. My guess > is that 99% of the folks who would file bug reports are dissed at > that screen and give it up. > >For a 'so-called' open source project (some call it open sores), > where we do the beta testing for the next StarOffice, you are > seriously taking aim very carefully so as not to miss when you > shoot yourself in the foot. I hope it feels good. > >Am I pi$$ed? Yes, because I can see the mechanism by which you > prevent bug reports from being filed, so they never get fixed if > not filed, right? Less work for the coders you are paying by the > hour is the rational no doubt. And its 350% intentional, and thats > what really fries me. Rules written by the lawyers to justify > their salary. They should be in the unemployment line. > >Sun still does not 'get' the open source model. Look at the license >for Solaris now. I'm curious, and I'd really like to see how it > runs here, but sorry, no sale after reading that license. I wonder > if they ever will 'get it'? > >What do you want to bet that this message never makes the list? >Nothing, cause it won't pass as a moderated list. BUT I damned sure >hope it makes it to the second floor where somebody who gives a red >cent might care. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.34% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
