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The life and times of Zack Weinberg.

Saturday, 5 January 2002

# 11:40 PM

Someone else has packaged QMTest for Debian, so I don't have to. This is good.

After hours of effort I still don't have new caption text for What's Going On. This is bad.

The mechanic says my car doesn't need anything replaced. This is good.

On the whole, a good day.

# 5 PM

I've spent the past six hours or so attempting to clean up a bunch of images of text in a font I can't assume people have on their web browsers. These were mistakenly created using Photoshop with anti- aliasing on, and saved as color JPEGs with background set to approximate the background of the web page. All of this is of course the Wrong Thing. They should have been created in non-antialiased black and white, then saved as black and white transparent PNGs. But it's too late for that now, I have to get to black and white transparent PNGs - somehow - from what I've got. Much dinking around with pnmtools has produced things that look more or less crap, but never actually good.

I think I'll go to bed, get up tomorrow (damn, it's already tomorrow. In the morning, then), and see if I can persuade my home box to load up the weird font ("Comic Sans MS") and then I'll re-type all of these things. I'm sure it'll be easier. Lots of people seem to be able to get XFree86 to play with TrueType fonts.