Re: [Inkscape-user] Inkscape and Uniconvertor
On 8/26/14 9:43 PM, Chris Mohler wrote:
On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 8:47 PM, Ken Springer
<snowshed1@...3003...> wrote:
> Being adverse to any kind of coding these days, if I had to do what it
> sounds like you're doing I'd probably use a macro recorder.
Bah :) That isn't coding - just BASH golf: run [command]. Did it
work? No. Run [command --with-other-options]. Did it work? No, but
it's closer to the hole. Putt until the ball goes in the hole, copy
it down for next time ;) I think a GUI for that would just piss me
off.
BASH golf??????? I know nothing about golf, and nothing about the BASH
command I see in the X-11 process to get Inkscape to run on this Mac.
But, I can do a pretty good job of bashing things with a sledge
hammer!!!! LOL
As far as your comments on linux: I'm not sure how well Mint
would do
on elderly hardware. If you have a beefy graphics card, give it a
whirl (at least the live CD, bearing in mind there's going to be some
lag while it's reading off the disc) . Most Mac hardware is loaded
for bear when it comes to the GPU, though - so you might be OK. There
are other distros that focus on being lightweight, and - and this is
the great thing about open OSes - you could always install something
like Mint, but then change the WM to something really spartan like
fluxbox. But of course that's the fiddling you don't want to do ;)
And a
lot of what you said is over my head. <G> I've read where Linux
is often the thing to use if you want to extend the life of older
hardware. But every time I tried one of those "specialty" distros via
Live CD that's supposed to be for older hardware, never worked. LOL
But the full version always did.
And not to rant/rave about open source, but you may not know that
the
only reason OS X exists at all is that Apple forked one of the BSDs
(openBSD or netBSD - I don't remember).
I believe it's openBSD, as I've
read OS X is just Jobs Os from the NeXT
systems he built. Always wanted to try that, but I couldn't afford one
then, and they aren't cheap now, either. I just looked on eBay, there's
one for $2400 and one for $2800.
Chris
PS - at least two members of my local LUG are in California, and
that's got to be at least a thousand miles away. Still a good group
;)
How do you deal with members that far away? I'm thinking about meetings
with question and answer sessions and such.
PPS - I'm not usually this active on this list; but your comments
on
workflow/toolchain compelled me to respond. I use both open-source
and proprietary programs every day, and format-shifting is second
nature by now, but it's always sticky!
This is the most I've posted in a
mailing list or newsgroup in months.
And I wouldn't have started this thread if I wasn't trying to help my
friend.