I was pleased to attend the European Ruby Conference
more than a week ago.
My talk was “The Rubyesque API” – your comments and
suggestions are welcome. I’ve already discovered one
or two items I’ve omitted (thanks, Robert Feldt).
The slides are now online as JPGs on rubyhacker.com.
Cheers,
Hal
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Hal Fulton
hal9000@hypermetrics.com
Excellent slides, Hal! Thanks for sharing!
On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 17:49:40 +0900, Hal E. Fulton wrote:
I was pleased to attend the European Ruby Conference more than a week ago.
My talk was “The Rubyesque API” – your comments and suggestions are
welcome. I’ve already discovered one or two items I’ve omitted (thanks,
Robert Feldt).The slides are now online as JPGs on rubyhacker.com.
Cheers,
Hal
In article 069f01c33e1c$5135e9c0$0300a8c0@austin.rr.com,
Hal E. Fulton hal9000@hypermetrics.com wrote:
I was pleased to attend the European Ruby Conference
more than a week ago.My talk was “The Rubyesque API” – your comments and
suggestions are welcome. I’ve already discovered one
or two items I’ve omitted (thanks, Robert Feldt).The slides are now online as JPGs on rubyhacker.com.
Hal,
I just went through your slides. Every Rubyist should read them, lots of
great advice!
Is it possible to get these slides as a pdf?
BTW: How did you create this presentation?
Phil
I was pleased to attend the European Ruby Conference more than a week
ago.My talk was “The Rubyesque API” – your comments and suggestions are
welcome. I’ve already discovered one or two items I’ve omitted (thanks,
Robert Feldt).The slides are now online as JPGs on rubyhacker.com.
Cheers,
HalExcellent slides, Hal! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks, Tim… you may recall that it was your
message from August that prompted me to write
down a few things that had been rattling around
in my head.
Of course, with thought, I changed the list
around, so it’s not much like what I posted
at that time. I left out some things on
purpose, and probably left out some things
by accident as well.
Cheers,
Hal
----- Original Message -----
From: “Tim Hunter” cyclists@nc.rr.com
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
To: “ruby-talk ML” ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2003 12:51 PM
Subject: Re: [ANN] Slides from my talk are up on rubyhacker.com
On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 17:49:40 +0900, Hal E. Fulton wrote:
In article 069f01c33e1c$5135e9c0$0300a8c0@austin.rr.com,
I was pleased to attend the European Ruby Conference
more than a week ago.My talk was “The Rubyesque API” – your comments and
suggestions are welcome. I’ve already discovered one
or two items I’ve omitted (thanks, Robert Feldt).The slides are now online as JPGs on rubyhacker.com.
Hal,
I just went through your slides. Every Rubyist should read them, lots of
great advice!Is it possible to get these slides as a pdf?
BTW: How did you create this presentation?
Thanks, Phil…
Also lots left out, of course… I’m still listing things
I “wish I had said.”
I don’t have the ability to create a PDF. At least, if I do,
I’m not aware of it. 
The slides were created with good old-fashioned (ack)
Powerpoint.
The HTML was created with a little tool I wrote… it’s
fairly trivial, but I’ve thought of releasing it once it’s
enhanced a little and the code is cleaned. (I don’t like
the HTML that you get when you export from Powerpoint.)
Cheers,
Hal
----- Original Message -----
From: “Phil Tomson” ptkwt@shell1.aracnet.com
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
To: “ruby-talk ML” ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
Sent: Friday, July 04, 2003 1:59 PM
Subject: Re: [ANN] Slides from my talk are up on rubyhacker.com
Hal E. Fulton hal9000@hypermetrics.com wrote:
–
Hal Fulton
hal9000@hypermetrics.com
I believe there’s a bug in the generation of numbered links (the ones
at the bottom): the pages are listed in lexicographic order instead of
the proper one (ie. you have slide1.html, slide10.html …, slide2.html)
On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 04:34:34AM +0900, Hal E. Fulton wrote:
The slides were created with good old-fashioned (ack)
Powerpoint.The HTML was created with a little tool I wrote… it’s
fairly trivial, but I’ve thought of releasing it once it’s
enhanced a little and the code is cleaned. (I don’t like
the HTML that you get when you export from Powerpoint.)
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I don’t have the ability to create a PDF. At least, if I do,
I’m not aware of it.
http://www.pdf995.com if you’re on win32.
ps2pdf under unices.
Argh. Thank you.
In the past that was not an issue, because I changed
the names to slide01, slide02, and so on. But Powerpoint
exports them without the leading zero, and I decided not
to fight that particular point.
I’ll fix.
Cheers,
Hal
----- Original Message -----
From: “Mauricio Fernández” batsman.geo@yahoo.com
To: “ruby-talk ML” ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
Sent: Friday, July 04, 2003 2:57 PM
Subject: Re: [ANN] Slides from my talk are up on rubyhacker.com
On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 04:34:34AM +0900, Hal E. Fulton wrote:
The slides were created with good old-fashioned (ack)
Powerpoint.The HTML was created with a little tool I wrote… it’s
fairly trivial, but I’ve thought of releasing it once it’s
enhanced a little and the code is cleaned. (I don’t like
the HTML that you get when you export from Powerpoint.)I believe there’s a bug in the generation of numbered links (the ones
at the bottom): the pages are listed in lexicographic order instead of
the proper one (ie. you have slide1.html, slide10.html …, slide2.html)
I assume ps2pdf converts from Postscript? All I
have is HTML and some JPGs.
Hal
----- Original Message -----
From: “Aredridel” aredridel@nbtsc.org
To: “ruby-talk ML” ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
Sent: Friday, July 04, 2003 5:03 PM
Subject: Re: [ANN] Slides from my talk are up on rubyhacker.com
I don’t have the ability to create a PDF. At least, if I do,
I’m not aware of it.http://www.pdf995.com if you’re on win32.
ps2pdf under unices.
–
Hal Fulton
hal9000@hypermetrics.com
http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc/
it’s GPL
HTMLDOC 1.8.23
On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 03:24:43PM +0900, Hal E. Fulton wrote:
I don’t have the ability to create a PDF. At least, if I do,
I’m not aware of it.http://www.pdf995.com if you’re on win32.
ps2pdf under unices.
I assume ps2pdf converts from Postscript? All I
have is HTML and some JPGs.
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Running Debian GNU/Linux Sid (unstable)
batsman dot geo at yahoo dot com
LILO, you’ve got me on my knees!
– David Black, dblack@pilot.njin.net, with apologies to Derek and the
Dominos, and Werner Almsberger
http://www.pdf995.com if you’re on win32.
ps2pdf under unices.
I assume ps2pdf converts from Postscript? All I
have is HTML and some JPGs.
Mozilla under unix generates PostScript natively when you print, so a
print to file and a convert works wonders. Under windows [and since
you’re using powerpoint, I assume you have windows], I install the free
adobeps driver from Adobe’s site, then print to file with that, upload
to my computer (which runs PLD) and run ps2pdf on it. My father uses
pdf995 under windows, and again, it’s just a print driver.
Ari
[snip]
That’s very nice to know. I’ll definitely use that
at some point in the future.
But quality might be better if I converted directly
from the Powerpoint (.ppt) file… I wonder if the
HTML it generates (which is awful) could be read
by this tool?
Powerpoint can’t export as .ps or .pdf – it can
do a few formats such as .rtf and some graphical
formats.
But really, I myself don’t feel the need for a .pdf –
it was someone else who did. Yet I’d still be willing
to convert it if someone found it useful and it didn’t
take too much effort.
Hal
----- Original Message -----
From: “Mauricio Fernández” batsman.geo@yahoo.com
To: “ruby-talk ML” ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2003 1:36 AM
Subject: Re: [ANN] Slides from my talk are up on rubyhacker.com
On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 03:24:43PM +0900, Hal E. Fulton wrote:
I don’t have the ability to create a PDF. At least, if I do,
I’m not aware of it.http://www.pdf995.com if you’re on win32.
ps2pdf under unices.
I assume ps2pdf converts from Postscript? All I
have is HTML and some JPGs.it’s GPL
HTMLDOC 1.8.23
–
Hal Fulton
hal9000@hypermetrics.com
Hal E. Fulton wrote:
…
Powerpoint can’t export as .ps or .pdf – it can
do a few formats such as .rtf and some graphical
formats.
There’s openoffice, which runs on windows (as well as linux) and can
read PPT quite well and export to PDF. Actually, I’ve only tried on
linux, but it does a nice job.
You don’t need to specifically export to PDF. Just install driver for any
postscript printer (Apple’s generic one would be OK) and print to it to
file. You’ll get PostScript file which then can be converted to PDF via
ps2pdf easily.
Can you make your PPT file availabile?
On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 03:50:02PM +0900, Hal E. Fulton wrote:
I assume ps2pdf converts from Postscript? All I
have is HTML and some JPGs.it’s GPL
HTMLDOC 1.8.23
[snip]
That’s very nice to know. I’ll definitely use that
at some point in the future.But quality might be better if I converted directly
from the Powerpoint (.ppt) file… I wonder if the
HTML it generates (which is awful) could be read
by this tool?Powerpoint can’t export as .ps or .pdf – it can
do a few formats such as .rtf and some graphical
formats.
–
/ Alexander Bokovoy
Testing can show the presense of bugs, but not their absence.
– Dijkstra
In article 182d01c342c2$662b2ca0$0300a8c0@austin.rr.com,
From: “Mauricio Fernández” batsman.geo@yahoo.com
To: “ruby-talk ML” ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2003 1:36 AM
Subject: Re: [ANN] Slides from my talk are up on rubyhacker.comI don’t have the ability to create a PDF. At least, if I do,
I’m not aware of it.http://www.pdf995.com if you’re on win32.
ps2pdf under unices.
I assume ps2pdf converts from Postscript? All I
have is HTML and some JPGs.it’s GPL
HTMLDOC 1.8.23
[snip]
That’s very nice to know. I’ll definitely use that
at some point in the future.But quality might be better if I converted directly
from the Powerpoint (.ppt) file… I wonder if the
HTML it generates (which is awful) could be read
by this tool?Powerpoint can’t export as .ps or .pdf – it can
do a few formats such as .rtf and some graphical
formats.
Probably by design. Wouldn’t want people translating to open formats
when we can lock them into closed ones.
But really, I myself don’t feel the need for a .pdf –
it was someone else who did. Yet I’d still be willing
to convert it if someone found it useful and it didn’t
take too much effort.
I was asking, it’s not that big of a deal. I just figured it would be
nice to have a document with your presentation all in one file.
Phil
Hal E. Fulton hal9000@hypermetrics.com wrote:
----- Original Message -----
On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 03:24:43PM +0900, Hal E. Fulton wrote:
If you print to file to a printer that is a postscript
printer, you end up with a postscript file that has
a .prn suffix. (It doesn’t matter if you have the printer
or not when you print to file.)
I generated postscript files from my .ppt lectures
and then converted them to pdf with ps2pdf.
Makes for very nice output.
Hmm, I have OpenOffice 1.0.1 on Red Hat. I can
certainly open the .ppt, but I can’t see a way
to save as a .pdf – for some reason, Export
has more options than Save As (counterintuitive
to me), but the nearest thing is .eps I think.
Hal
----- Original Message -----
From: “Joel VanderWerf” vjoel@PATH.Berkeley.EDU
To: “ruby-talk ML” ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2003 1:57 AM
Subject: Re: [ANN] Slides from my talk are up on rubyhacker.com
Hal E. Fulton wrote:
…Powerpoint can’t export as .ps or .pdf – it can
do a few formats such as .rtf and some graphical
formats.There’s openoffice, which runs on windows (as well as linux) and can
read PPT quite well and export to PDF. Actually, I’ve only tried on
linux, but it does a nice job.
–
Hal Fulton
hal9000@hypermetrics.com
You don’t need to specifically export to PDF. Just install driver for any
postscript printer (Apple’s generic one would be OK) and print to it to
You can also use ghostscript for that, IIRC.
On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 05:13:45PM +0900, Alexander Bokovoy wrote:
file. You’ll get PostScript file which then can be converted to PDF via
ps2pdf easily.
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) | (| | |__ \ | | | | | (| | | | |
.__/ _,|_|/| || ||_,|| |_|
Running Debian GNU/Linux Sid (unstable)
batsman dot geo at yahoo dot com
#Debian makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
– HippieGuy on #Debian
In article 3F0676E2.6060805@path.berkeley.edu,
Hal E. Fulton wrote:
…Powerpoint can’t export as .ps or .pdf – it can
do a few formats such as .rtf and some graphical
formats.There’s openoffice, which runs on windows (as well as linux) and can
read PPT quite well
…well, depends on what ppt you’re trying to read in. I’ve not had great
luck with it reading ppt’s.
and export to PDF. Actually, I’ve only tried on
linux, but it does a nice job.
Yes, OpenOffice does produce PDFs. It also has it’s own presentation
maker which I’ve used to create a couple of presentations.
Phil
Joel VanderWerf vjoel@PATH.Berkeley.EDU wrote:
Jim Freeze wrote:
On Saturday, 5 July 2003 at 15:50:02 +0900, Hal E. Fulton wrote:
----- Original Message -----
Powerpoint can’t export as .ps or .pdf – it can
do a few formats such as .rtf and some graphical
formats.If you print to file to a printer that is a postscript
printer, you end up with a postscript file that has
a .prn suffix. (It doesn’t matter if you have the printer
or not when you print to file.)I generated postscript files from my .ppt lectures
and then converted them to pdf with ps2pdf.Makes for very nice output.
The latest (more or less) beta of OpenOffice for Windows will export to
PDF. Does a good job with Word files; might work (haven’t tried) with
Powerpoint stuff.
James