Volunteer needed to create screen saver for BSDCan

Johan Beisser jb at caustic.org
Sat May 3 20:47:56 UTC 2008


Leopard or Tiger?

On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Dan Langille <dan at langille.org> wrote:
> I need help.  I need someone to create a screen saver to run on my Mac.
>  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 at langille.org
>
>
>
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