Re: Volunteer needed to create screen saver for BSDCan

On May 3, 2008, at 3:11 PM, Dan Langille wrote:

> I need help.  I need someone to create a screen saver to run on my  
> Mac.

Or, something that will run on KDE...  Either solution is fine by me.

> This screen saver will be used during the opening session of BSDCan.
>
> In short; I have about 20 emails I wish to have displayed.  I can  
> give you
> the emails or a PDF of each email, whichever you want.
>
> I had tried using just the PDF and the "Pictures Folder" screen  
> saver. This
> was a good start.  But each PDF contains large amounts of whitespace.
> Each email occupies very little of one PDF page.  Therefore, the  
> screen save
> often shows this whitespace and nothing else.
>
> I'm not worried about how you achieve the result, but one  
> suggestion I thought
> of was : convert the PDF to an image file and crop off the whitespace.
>
> Please contact me off-list and I will send you the PDFs/emails.   
> Those with
> suggestions as to how to do this work are free to suggest, but I do  
> not want
> to do the work as other parts of BSDCan are higher priority right  
> now.  :)
>
> Thanks.
>
> -- 
> Dan Langille -- http://www.langille.org/
> dan@langille.org
>
>
>
>
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Dan Langille -- http://www.langille.org/
dan@langille.org

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