Tuesday, February 13, 2007
FDPI, Xvid & Car Seats
I have to rave about FPDI. I'm working on a system that will provide some legal documentation (not legal size ... but legal as in lawful). So what we need to do is take the existing PDF, and create a new one from it. I've used FPDF before to very much success. And In the FAQs I found the add on to import an existing PDF document. Basically you can plaster it in there like an image, and just go on about your business. I spent a few hours working with it, and I had the process for document generation based on the templates down. I really love it when a plan comes together.
Since I've had my new monitors I've been playing around with settings and a few things. I discovered my "bugs" were not really bugs. Rather side effects of other settings like my focus model. Certain features are turned off under focus models for "sanity reasons" ... or so I am told. I'm running the proprietary nvidia driver for my card ... meh ... it was in the repository. I also have the nv driver, I just happen to have configured it with nvidia. Maybe I will experiment with the other driver when I have time. I never had hardware acceleration on my other via card. At one point I could install a proprietary driver for certain versions of Fedora, but that went away really really quick. Since video was never really an issue for me, generic drivers it was. I had a discussion with Aaron about Xvid the other day, and went to investigate mplayer. I discovered that I had not compiled with xvid support, but merely xvidx. So a couple of apt-get commands, and a recompile later, I had full screen available for mplayer. I was impressed.
Today I had an appointment to get a new car seat. The frame had been broken for quite some time, and I was starting to get a sore back after I drove anywhere. I took my car into the mechanic. With the blizzards over the past few days the roads were terrible. The taxi phones were overloaded. I tried to get through for 40 mins from the mechanic. He offered to push my car through, and just get me out of there instead of waiting for a cab. So It took a little over an hour, and I was on my way home. My back greatly appreciates his kindness now. ¶ 11:19:00 AM
Since I've had my new monitors I've been playing around with settings and a few things. I discovered my "bugs" were not really bugs. Rather side effects of other settings like my focus model. Certain features are turned off under focus models for "sanity reasons" ... or so I am told. I'm running the proprietary nvidia driver for my card ... meh ... it was in the repository. I also have the nv driver, I just happen to have configured it with nvidia. Maybe I will experiment with the other driver when I have time. I never had hardware acceleration on my other via card. At one point I could install a proprietary driver for certain versions of Fedora, but that went away really really quick. Since video was never really an issue for me, generic drivers it was. I had a discussion with Aaron about Xvid the other day, and went to investigate mplayer. I discovered that I had not compiled with xvid support, but merely xvidx. So a couple of apt-get commands, and a recompile later, I had full screen available for mplayer. I was impressed.
Today I had an appointment to get a new car seat. The frame had been broken for quite some time, and I was starting to get a sore back after I drove anywhere. I took my car into the mechanic. With the blizzards over the past few days the roads were terrible. The taxi phones were overloaded. I tried to get through for 40 mins from the mechanic. He offered to push my car through, and just get me out of there instead of waiting for a cab. So It took a little over an hour, and I was on my way home. My back greatly appreciates his kindness now. ¶ 11:19:00 AM
