Nana Aba Duncan TV hosting reel
My wonderfully talented girlfriend, Nana Aba Duncan, just posted her new TV hosting reel on YouTube. Her bright and fun personality really comes through in this video. Yes, she is that energetic in real life.
If you’ve caught the Nana fever and the only solution is more Nana, be sure to also check out her DiverCity podcasts on BlogTO.
Posted on February 29th, 2008 in television - No Comments »
What I really want: A command-line preflight tool for PDFs
Creating PDFs is difficult. Creating PDFs for print is even more difficult. Reportlab does a great job, but it defaults to RGB in most cases. This necessitates some tweaking of both Reportlab code and the code using Reportlab. Testing the result is difficult, mostly because I don’t know of any command-line tools to do preflight testing for RGB and CMYK elements.
What I need is a command-line tool to do some basic PDF preflighting (eg. non-CMYK elements, non-embedded fonts, images below 300dpi, characters which may cause difficulties in printing, etc.). Is that so much to ask? When the PDF spec is 1300 pages long, it is. Still, don’t think I won’t try and take a stab at it.
Posted on February 27th, 2008 in programming - No Comments »