Volunteer needed to create screen saver for BSDCan

[Dan Langille]

On May 3, 2008, at 4:20 PM, Johan Beisser wrote:

> Leopard or Tiger?

Mac OS X 10.4.11 (8S2167), which I think is Tiger.

>
> On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Dan Langille <dan at langille.org>  
> wrote:
>> I need help.  I need someone to create a screen saver to run on my  
>> Mac.
>>  This screen saver will be used during the opening session of BSDCan.
>>
>>  In short; I have about 20 emails I wish to have displayed.  I can  
>> give you
>>  the emails or a PDF of each email, whichever you want.
>>
>>  I had tried using just the PDF and the "Pictures Folder" screen  
>> saver. This
>>  was a good start.  But each PDF contains large amounts of  
>> whitespace.
>>  Each email occupies very little of one PDF page.  Therefore, the  
>> screen
>> save
>>  often shows this whitespace and nothing else.
>>
>>  I'm not worried about how you achieve the result, but one  
>> suggestion I
>> thought
>>  of was : convert the PDF to an image file and crop off the  
>> whitespace.
>>
>>  Please contact me off-list and I will send you the PDFs/emails.   
>> Those with
>>  suggestions as to how to do this work are free to suggest, but I  
>> do not
>> want
>>  to do the work as other parts of BSDCan are higher priority right  
>> now.  :)
>>
>>  Thanks.
>>
>>  --
>>  Dan Langille -- http://www.langille.org/
>>  dan at langille.org
>>
>>
>>
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