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Comment on Better PDF File Size Reduction in OS X by Pål Eivind Nes

Pål Eivind Nes — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:56:32 +0000

True, though sharing internally on the network would work without trusting the initial external seeder too much, once someone “inside” gets the file and is willing to share.

I’ll stop here though :-)

Comment on Better PDF File Size Reduction in OS X by Janet

Janet — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:46:47 +0000

I believe that Keynote supports all the graphics/video formats that QuickTime supports — and QuickTime supports jpeg2000.

So if your original Keynote presentation started off with jpeg2000 graphics files in the first place, then the original Keynote presentation would be a lot smaller from the start.

And when you export your Keynote presentation into the pdf format, you will export those smaller sized jpeg2000 files into the pdf.

Comment on Better PDF File Size Reduction in OS X by Eric Meyer

Eric Meyer — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:08:23 +0000

Janet: not "forgot one thing" so much as "didn't know that thing in the first place", but how does that apply? Keynote exports what it exports; my goal was to shrink what it exported to something more manageable. I don't see how PDF's support of jpeg2000 relates, exactly. Pål: all that data still has to get stuffed through the same incoming pipe, so from what I can tell BitTorrent wouldn't help, or might actually make things slightly worse. This isn't about server resources, but available bandwidth at the endpoint (the venue). And also about making files smaller in general.

Comment on Better PDF File Size Reduction in OS X by Pål Eivind Nes

Pål Eivind Nes — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:59:16 +0000

How about a distributed solution for download, like BitTorrent? :-)

Comment on Any-Element Linking Demo by Dennis File

Dennis File — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:47:03 +0000

You could add “visited” functionality, but it’d be confusing. You would use javascript to dynamically create an tag with the href of the to-be-created imitation hyperlink. Then use CSS to position:absolute the A tag off the screen. Then use something along the lines of

#detector:visited { height:100px; }

where #detector is the hidden A element. Then use JS to get that A element’s offsetHeight, and find if the link has been visited. If so, change the style of the imitated hyperlink.

Comment on Better PDF File Size Reduction in OS X by Andrey Esaulov

Andrey Esaulov — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:20:29 +0000

Thank you very much! It would be such a time-saviour if I had your filter at hand while working on my project. Having to digitalize almost the whole library catalogue’s topic on modern Russian literature I had to painfully exepriment with filters myself. Yours working more efficient I must admit!

- From a huge fan of your CSS Books =)

Comment on Better PDF File Size Reduction in OS X by Janet

Janet — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:16:16 +0000

Since Eric Meyer is a HTML/CSS god, I think that he forgot one thing — while the internet doesn’t support jpeg2000, pdf does support jpeg2000.

You can achieve both file size reduction and maintain the quality of the photographs in the pdf file at the same time.

Comment on Wanted: Layout System by Darrel Karisch

Darrel Karisch — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:37:39 +0000

The CSS Scripting Layout Model that I mentioned above is able to emulate an HTML table and improve upon it by reducing the total area required. please see…

http://blogs.eforceglobal.com/dkarisch/archive/2010/03/15/544.aspx

As I state in the blog… “Scripting renders CSS layout a more open system whereby any developer the world over can contribute new techniques for content layout.”

If “people were asking for any decent layout mechanism at all, which CSS has historically lacked” then why not CSS Scripting as an answer?

Comment on Angry Indeed by Reinventando o HTML: o futuro da linguagem de hypertexto ≈ Revolução Etc

Reinventando o HTML: o futuro da linguagem de hypertexto ≈ Revolução Etc — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 11:22:39 +0000

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Meanwhile in Gotham City ← pseudopost.org — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 06:30:28 +0000

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Comment on Reset Reloaded by Meyer’s CSS Reset

Meyer’s CSS Reset — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:09:04 +0000

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Comment on Better PDF File Size Reduction in OS X by Links for February 24th through March 11th – eclecticism

Links for February 24th through March 11th – eclecticism — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:04:55 +0000

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Comment on Reset Reloaded by Speed Up Your Design Processes While Reducing Errors | Astagram Studios- A Creative Studio- Official Blog

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:26:46 +0000

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Comment on South Bypass by The Plot To (Not) Annoy Eric Meyer : Incisive.nu

The Plot To (Not) Annoy Eric Meyer : Incisive.nu — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:54:33 +0000

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Comment on Reset Reloaded by Setting rather than Resetting Default Styling | Carsonified

Setting rather than Resetting Default Styling | Carsonified — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:01:15 +0000

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