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From: Finn Thain <fthain@××××××××××××××××.au>
To: "gentoo-osx@l.g.o" <gentoo-osx@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-osx] Followup to: The road ahead?
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 07:37:07
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.64.0511281725040.14092@loopy.telegraphics.com.au
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-osx] Followup to: The road ahead? by dirk.schoenberger@sz-online.de
1 On Sun, 27 Nov 2005, dirk.schoenberger@×××××××××.de wrote:
2
3 > > > - image to vector applications like autotrace resp. potrace
4 >
5 > > Ok. Now I get what you want. For the image converting applications,
6 > > you might want to go for some 'drop file on' solution, like
7 > > Photoshop has. You simply drop a file on the icon, and it's being
8 > > converted somehow. I think this is quite generic somehow. Interesting!
9 >
10 > Nice idea, but currently not doable, I am afraid. My ObjectiveC / Cocoa
11 > knowledge is not upto task to do something as complicated as drag-and-drop
12 > programming ;)
13 >
14
15 When I used to use Fink, I wrote this script for viewing PostScript files
16 with Fink's ghostview (Preview.app under Jaguar wasn't able to open them).
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18 http://www.telegraphics.com.au/~fthain/sw/launcher.applescript
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20 To use it, just paste the script into Script Editor, change the PATH
21 variables, and save as application. You can then drop stuff on it from
22 finder and that stuff will get opened by gv in X11.
23
24 -f
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Re: [gentoo-osx] Followup to: The road ahead? Grobian <grobian@g.o>