I was very impressed by the image resizing demo you see here: So when I saw that there is a Gimp plugin for it, I decided to try it out. Installation was a breeze thanks to MacPorts, my first experiments worked but when I wanted tor draw a mask, the Gimp crashed. This was due [...]
Posts by Bart Schuller
Leopard shell annoyances
After having been bitten by the erroneous LANG=UTF-8 environment variable that Terminal added (you can disable it in the prefs under Advanced), I decided to figure out why man port would claim there is no man page for port. The problem turns out to be not any misconfiguration of /etc/man.conf, that file is fine as [...]
Open Document Format in Leopard
Scrolling through the 300+ New Features page at Apple I noticed a mention of ODF under the UNIX heading. Curious, I found an ODT file, right-clicked and there it was: under NeoOffice, TextEdit.app sat there claiming it knew how to open my document. Both opening and saving works, the fidelity is about what I’d expect. [...]
