Re: cool project ideas

2004-02-28 Thread R. Joseph Newton
Wiggins d Anconia wrote: > GIF compression or GIF images? AFAIK, that is a false distinction. Unless some standard release since 89A has changed this, LZW compression is integral to the GIF format. Unlike JPEG / JFIF, which includes parameters for the dgree of compression/lossiness, GIF compres

Re: cool project ideas

2004-02-25 Thread John
image type (with the less kb storage) And gif is the smallest files i know. - Original Message - From: "Wiggins d Anconia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Perl Beginners" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, Febr

Re: cool project ideas

2004-02-25 Thread isofroni
Then what is the correct method? I have installed the Image::Magick via the ppm (activestate, win32 perl) I haven't install any other lib during ImageMagick installation. And it works great. But with no GIF images as i can see. PNG is a heavy format as far as i know. I want the smallest image

Re: cool project ideas

2004-02-25 Thread Wiggins d Anconia
Please bottom post... > Unfortunately, Image::Magick doen't support gif compression. > GIF compression or GIF images? Image::Magick will support any format that the underlying imagemagick C libs can support, they can support GIF images, but that depends on having libgif or giflib (or some such l

Re: cool project ideas

2004-02-25 Thread John
L PROTECTED]>; "Perl Beginners" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 10:21 PM Subject: Re: cool project ideas > > a image convertor. > > > > I cannot find anything. > > > > Checked CPAN? > > > BMP<=>JPEG > > JPE

Re: cool project ideas

2004-02-25 Thread John
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Re: cool project ideas

2004-02-24 Thread James Edward Gray II
On Feb 24, 2004, at 3:45 PM, Joel wrote: Currently, I don't do anything for a living. I am interested in writing utilities, but I think your idea regarding the adding and removing accounts is a bit too complex for me at the moment. When I originally started with perl I wanted to know how to wri

Re: cool project ideas

2004-02-24 Thread Morbus Iff
>perl I wanted to know how to write spiders (but I'm too cheap to buy the >O'Reilly book "Spidering hacks", and the library doesn't have it) allthough Hey, that's my book . -- Morbus Iff ( i put the demon back in codemonkey ) Culture: http://www.disobey.com/ and http://www.gamegrene.com/ Spidering

RE: cool project ideas

2004-02-24 Thread Paul Kraus
> When I originally started with > perl I wanted to know how to write spiders (but I'm too cheap to buy the > O'Reilly book "Spidering hacks", and the library doesn't have it) http://safari.oreilly.com/ 14 bucks a month 10 bucks can be taken out at a time including the one you mentioned. Plus you

Re: cool project ideas

2004-02-24 Thread Joel
Joel - Original Message - From: "Paul Kraus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Joel'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 4:26 PM Subject: RE: cool project ideas > > I'm getting tired of working on a text adventure

Re: cool project ideas

2004-02-24 Thread WC -Sx- Jones
Jenda Krynicky wrote: AFAIK ActiveStates did try this and found it too slow. Perl is too different from the languages MS had in mind that it can't be effectively compiled to IL. And keep in mind that all those heavily optimized Perl builtins would have to be implemented in IL. Yes, I know :(

Re: cool project ideas

2004-02-24 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: WC -Sx- Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Joel wrote: > > I'm getting tired of working on a text adventure in perl, and I was > > wondering if anyone had some interesting projects they could suggest > > I attempt. > > > port Perl language and syntax to Gnu DotNet. > > That way we can program in

Re: cool project ideas

2004-02-24 Thread Joel
Actually, I'm looking for more of a beginers project. Joel - Original Message - From: "WC -Sx- Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "perl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 4:03 PM Subject: Re: cool project ideas > Joel wrote: &g

Re: cool project ideas

2004-02-24 Thread WC -Sx- Jones
Joel wrote: I'm getting tired of working on a text adventure in perl, and I was wondering if anyone had some interesting projects they could suggest I attempt. port Perl language and syntax to Gnu DotNet. That way we can program in Perl but generate IL for .Net on Unix, et al. Cheers! -Sx- PS -

Re: cool project ideas

2004-02-24 Thread Casey West
It was Tuesday, February 24, 2004 when John took the soap box, saying: : a image convertor. : : I cannot find anything. : : BMP<=>JPEG : JPEG<=>GIF : BMP<=>GIF use Imager; my $imager = Imager->new; $image->open(file => "foo.bmp", type => "bmp"); $image->write(file => "foo.jpg", type => "

Re: cool project ideas

2004-02-24 Thread Morbus Iff
>I'm getting tired of working on a text adventure in perl, and I was >wondering if anyone had some interesting projects they could suggest I Why did you get tired of the text adventure? -- Morbus Iff ( i put the demon back in codemonkey ) Culture: http://www.disobey.com/ and http://www.gamegrene.c

Re: cool project ideas

2004-02-24 Thread Wiggins d Anconia
> a image convertor. > > I cannot find anything. > Checked CPAN? > BMP<=>JPEG > JPEG<=>GIF > BMP<=>GIF > http://www.imagemagick.org/www/perl.html ALternatively, GD. http://danconia.org > > - Original Message - > From: "Joel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "perl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > S

Re: cool project ideas

2004-02-24 Thread John
a image convertor. I cannot find anything. BMP<=>JPEG JPEG<=>GIF BMP<=>GIF - Original Message - From: "Joel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "perl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 10:05 PM Subject: cool project ideas > I'm getting tired of working on a text adventure in