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On 24 April 2013, at 15:10, James wrote: |
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> What I'm really (eventually) after is a way to send |
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> a custom emoticon, tied to a specific trirgger. |
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> For example, every hour, I'd like to send a measured |
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> temperature from a remote linux system to the mail |
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> box on another system, that looks like a hollow |
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> emoticon (empty sphere) with these characters inside of |
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> it: |
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> 72F |
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> meaning the cpu temperature on this system is 72 degrees F. |
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> Think of it a simple graphical email, via expanded emoticons? |
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My immediate reaction to this is to suggest creating a PDF. My mail client shows PDFs inline, so this would display quite nicely. You could create the circle using Postscript, then dump the postscript document to PDF; PDFs allow arbitrary paper sizes. |
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Alternatively, you could draw this as a gif or png using imagemagick or something. The imagemagick examples explain how to draw circles: |
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http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/draw/#circles |
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Stroller. |