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| kens | chrisl, I see that 'lionelb' (bug #695787) is at the University of Sussex, though he's apparently based in Chichester..... | 11:40.08 |
| chrisl | kens: Oh, that's interesting.... | 11:48.59 |
| kens | I'm not proposing to go visit him though...... | 11:49.14 |
| chrisl | A little odd that his e-mail is trader@..... | 11:49.35 |
| kens | Really ? Where is that ? | 11:49.48 |
| chrisl | The e-mail reported by bugzilla | 11:50.10 |
| kens | Oh yes, trader@lionelb.com, I just went tohttp://www.lionelb.com | 11:50.26 |
| | WHich does give a different email address for him, odd | 11:51.38 |
| | Ah, lionelb.com redirects to sussex.ac.uk | 11:52.04 |
| Robin_Watts | hehe. My ex-tutorial partner from uni must work with him. | 11:53.12 |
| chrisl | I'm just not farting around with it when he apparently can't be bothered to give us any more information | 11:53.33 |
| kens | Agreed, it works for you and me so it almost has to be some peculiarity of his system | 11:53.52 |
| chrisl | And, frankly, however many fonts are on your system, if fontconfig requires over 2Gb to update its database, then it's just broken | 11:55.29 |
| kens | COuld be a broken font or something, but *we* can't fixi it for him, especially if he won't talk to us.... | 11:56.08 |
| Robin_Watts | chrisl, paulgardiner: Helen called our travel insurance company to tell them about the snow mobile trip. | 12:12.18 |
| | Apparently winter sports costs extra, and snowmobiling even more. | 12:12.39 |
| kens | Winter sports often cost extra | 12:12.54 |
| Robin_Watts | Our travel insurance company wanted 300 quid for the snowmobiling. | 12:13.02 |
| kens | I seem to recall we had ot get extra insurance for snowmoil;es also | 12:13.09 |
| paulgardiner | I think I need to renew ours in any case | 12:13.09 |
| kens | 300 ? Crumbs | 12:13.16 |
| Robin_Watts | Our broker has found another company that would do it for 220. | 12:13.18 |
| kens | still thinks that's a lot | 12:13.25 |
| Robin_Watts | hell yes. | 12:13.31 |
| kens | I'm sure we didn't pay anything like that, but its been a long time | 12:13.47 |
| Robin_Watts | So you may want to check with your insurance companies. | 12:13.57 |
| chrisl | I need to renew mine before March, too, so I'll have a look around nearer the time | 12:14.06 |
| Robin_Watts | ok. we can cancel the snowmobiling up to 24 hours before, so if anyone feels this is all too expensive we can make other plans. | 12:14.47 |
| | (and indeed, some of us can snowmobile and others not, that's fine) | 12:15.00 |
| | I am still quite gungho to do it. | 12:15.11 |
| kens | Its loads of fun | 12:15.32 |
| Robin_Watts | kens: I've snowmobiled before. | 12:15.45 |
| kens | Ah :-) | 12:15.51 |
| Robin_Watts | I think the combination of snowmobiling and north america is what causes the huge increase in premium :( | 12:16.07 |
| kens | Yah I was wondering that, we did it in Austria | 12:16.23 |
| Robin_Watts | I've done it in Iceland and in Lapland. | 12:16.43 |
| paulgardiner | Robin_Watts: which day is the snowmobiling? | 12:38.04 |
| Robin_Watts | Tuesday | 12:38.15 |
| | 10th. | 12:38.34 |
| paulgardiner | 10th? | 12:39.15 |
| | :-~) | 12:39.20 |
| kens | Nasty shock, just rana cluster test and got a massive email back. Fortunately I realised its because I haven't picked up Chris's TrueType fix yet..... | 12:56.47 |
| chrisl | Oh yes, *lots* of diffs with that fix.... | 12:57.17 |
| kens | It was a momentary shock till I realised why there were so amny diffs :-) | 12:57.40 |
| Robin_Watts | chrisl: paulgardiner has just found cheaper insurance with virginmoney.com. My broker can't offer cover through them, so I'm looking at maybe getting insurance through them just for the trip. | 12:58.15 |
| paulgardiner | I have the policy details now and snow mobiling is explicitly covered | 12:59.47 |
| Robin_Watts | looks like it would be 73quid for a policy for just that trip. | 13:00.06 |
| | paulgardiner: Do you and Linda count as a cohabiting couple? | 13:00.18 |
| chrisl | Robin_Watts: thanks, I'll add them to my list | 13:00.39 |
| paulgardiner | No we don't | 13:01.10 |
| | Oh hang on: "Cover for these activities may carry an increased medical excess and may not provide cover for section D -Personal accident or section H - Personal liability." | 13:01.56 |
| Robin_Watts | paulgardiner: AIUI, when we go snowmobiling they will offer us the chance to buy liability cover for $20. | 13:05.08 |
| | (i.e. if you trash the snowmobile, or crash it into something you're covered) | 13:05.30 |
| | but personal accident is the thing that matters. | 13:05.42 |
| paulgardiner | Yeah, I'm just looking for the details | 13:06.02 |
| | That explains the price: no personal accident cover | 13:10.45 |
| Robin_Watts | paulgardiner: I just rang them. | 13:14.51 |
| | supposedly, you are covered for personal accident as long as you are 'following the recommended safety instructions., including, but not limited to, wearing a helmet'. | 13:15.22 |
| | and there is a 250quid excess on snowmobiling. | 13:16.05 |
| paulgardiner | That's not what my policy looks to be saying | 13:20.39 |
| kens | chrisl ping | 13:55.20 |
| chrisl | kens: pong | 13:55.49 |
| kens | can you try using the cdeskjet device in Ghostscript please ? I can't get it to work | 13:56.07 |
| | It gives me a rangecheck in setpagedevice | 13:56.16 |
| chrisl | "**** Unable to open the initial device, quitting." with 9.10..... | 13:57.52 |
| kens | So its been broken for some time then I guess | 13:58.04 |
| | At least its not somethign I've screwed up, thanks | 13:58.25 |
| chrisl | And the current code gives the rangecheck | 13:58.29 |
| kens | I suppose I'd better try and see what's not working | 13:58.39 |
| chrisl | I don't think color_info.depth should be 3.... | 14:09.00 |
| kens | Itsw something like that, certainly | 14:09.10 |
| | gdev_prn_allocate() is returning the error | 14:09.28 |
| chrisl | Yeh, it tries to create a buf_device for a color depth of 3 bits | 14:10.03 |
| kens | Which is not going to work, so now I need to figure out where the 3 is coming form :-( | 14:10.20 |
| chrisl | I'd guess around line 420 in gdevcdj.c | 14:11.22 |
| kens | I have a sneaky suspicion it may be using an out of date structure or something | 14:11.24 |
| | Yeah I guess that's the place. | 14:11.44 |
| chrisl | Of course, a baffling macro.... | 14:12.20 |
| kens | Yep | 14:12.25 |
| | And with *lots* of parameters with cryptic names to make it hard ot figure out if one is missing | 14:12.42 |
| | well its missing 2 at the end, cmyk and correct | 14:13.24 |
| | actually no I take that back, its just a baffling macro | 14:13.41 |
| | Well that can't be right : | 14:14.50 |
| | (bpp == 32 ? 4 : (bpp == 1 || bpp == 8) ? 1 : 3) | 14:14.50 |
| | That seems to be the number of bytes | 14:15.02 |
| | Yeah it has a definitionof 3 for bpp | 14:16.54 |
| | I imagine that hsould be 24 | 14:17.04 |
| | cdjcolor has 24 and cdjmomo has 1 | 14:17.31 |
| | maybe it should be 8 for grayscale | 14:17.46 |
| | OK I belive a deskjet is monochrome, you need a colour deskjet for colour, so I'm going to change that to '1' so that it stands some chance of working | 14:19.33 |
| chrisl | I guess this isn't used very much! | 14:20.28 |
| kens | I'd have to agree. | 14:20.36 |
| | I'm trying to make sure all the 'supported' devices work with my code, might take a while at this rate..... | 14:21.00 |
| chrisl | I think I would just note ones that didn't work before, and not worry about them wrt to your new stuff | 14:22.01 |
| kens | I may as well fix this while working on it I think | 14:22.20 |
| | THe %d syntax doesn't seem to work a t all wiht this device, I'm not going to do anything about that. | 14:22.38 |
| | actually, maybe I just can't type | 14:23.00 |
| | OK I just can't type | 14:23.38 |
| | I'm assuming Dr Woehrmann is taking over support again. | 14:24.49 |
| | I htink I'll leave that support one to Marcos, it looks like a can of worms to me. The first thing to find out is what version they are using, bet its an old one. | 14:37.51 |
| chrisl | It could be. Or possibly the way opdfread works is confusing them - which would not be unique to them! | 14:39.04 |
| kens | Well it 'looks like' they are complaining about a problem which was previously fixed. As for the file increasing in size, want to bet the forms are unrolled inside the output ? I don't think that ps2write maintains forms at all. | 14:40.11 |
| | Or it could be transparency of course | 14:40.48 |
| | But basically it seems to be 'we convert a PDF to PostScript using Ghostscript, then we modify the PostScript, then we run it through Ghostscript again, and we don't like the output' | 14:41.58 |
| | Which suggests to me they are trying to use ps2write in a way it doesn't like | 14:42.39 |
| | rayjj ping | 18:40.48 |
| henrys | it's a holiday today, just FYI | 18:41.48 |
| kens | OH :-( | 18:41.53 |
| | I'll get him tomorrow then when he can't get away | 18:42.06 |
| henrys | ;-) | 18:42.16 |
| kens | Goodnight folks | 18:42.24 |
| rayjj | henrys: pong (delayed) | 18:46.11 |
| | oh, that was from kens | 18:46.37 |
| henrys | kens pinged you I told him it was a holiday | 18:46.43 |
| rayjj | henrys: I had misread it. Sorry. | 18:46.59 |
| | I'm working today on Len's hot issue. FINALLY have numbers that make some sense | 18:47.20 |
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