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Re: _why's site is updated

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Post by itafroma »

NathanKP wrote: post #2

Does anyone here know the tool or technique to convert the printer format on his website to human readable format on screen? Edit: So far I've discovered I can go to http://whytheluckystiff.net/SPOOL/TRUMPETS for example to download a file. Trying to figure out how to read the format at the moment. Edit #2: Looks like it is PCL format. I'm trying to find a decent Mac OS X program for converting PCL to image. Edit #3:…

On OS X (Mountain Lion), I used PCL to PDF[1] and got the same output that gabrielgironda got[2].

[1]: http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/pcltopdf.html

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5540904

Re: _why's site is updated

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Post by jeffgreco »

gabrielgironda wrote: post #9

Here are all the PCL files rendered to PNG: http://www.gironda.org/pcl/DESOLEE.png http://www.gironda.org/pcl/SOLICIT.png http://www.gironda.org/pcl/TRUMPETS.png

Very exciting: "It's very difficult to advertise one's self from exile - am I crazy to think it can be done?"

Re: _why's site is updated

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Post by NathanKP »

itafroma wrote: post #11
NathanKP wrote: post #2

Does anyone here know the tool or technique to convert the printer format on his website to human readable format on screen? Edit: So far I've discovered I can go to http://whytheluckystiff.net/SPOOL/TRUMPETS for example to download a file. Trying to figure out how to read the format at the moment. Edit #2: Looks like it is PCL format. I'm trying to find a decent Mac OS X program for converting PCL to image. Edit #3:…

On OS X (Mountain Lion), I used PCL to PDF[1] and got the same output that gabrielgironda got[2]. [1]: http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/pcltopdf.html [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5540904

Thanks for the link. I'll try it out.

Re: _why's site is updated

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Post by enoptix »

gabrielgironda wrote: post #9

Here are all the PCL files rendered to PNG: http://www.gironda.org/pcl/DESOLEE.png http://www.gironda.org/pcl/SOLICIT.png http://www.gironda.org/pcl/TRUMPETS.png

the second image uses the word "exile" several times. Exile is typically associated with being cast out from one's group. The _why saga was before my time as a Rubyist but I always thought he vanished, i.e. left on his own accord.

Was there an "exile" event that I am not aware of? Or does anyone know what he's talking about?

Re: _why's site is updated

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Post by itafroma »

gabrielgironda wrote: post #9

Here are all the PCL files rendered to PNG: http://www.gironda.org/pcl/DESOLEE.png http://www.gironda.org/pcl/SOLICIT.png http://www.gironda.org/pcl/TRUMPETS.png

Confirmed. Uploaded the PDFs I got to Scribd:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/135635291/Solicit

http://www.scribd.com/doc/135635255/DESOLEE

http://www.scribd.com/doc/135635189/Trumpets

http://www.scribd.com/doc/135650965/Caprice

Re: _why's site is updated

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Post by nollidge »

enoptix wrote: post #15
gabrielgironda wrote: post #9

Here are all the PCL files rendered to PNG: http://www.gironda.org/pcl/DESOLEE.png http://www.gironda.org/pcl/SOLICIT.png http://www.gironda.org/pcl/TRUMPETS.png

the second image uses the word "exile" several times. Exile is typically associated with being cast out from one's group. The _why saga was before my time as a Rubyist but I always thought he vanished, i.e. left on his own accord. Was there an "exile" event that I am not aware of? Or does anyone know what he's talking about?

> Was there an "exile" event that I am not aware of?

No. He left of his own accord. Read it as "self-imposed exile" or something.

Re: _why's site is updated

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Post by mtsmith85 »

enoptix wrote: post #15
gabrielgironda wrote: post #9

Here are all the PCL files rendered to PNG: http://www.gironda.org/pcl/DESOLEE.png http://www.gironda.org/pcl/SOLICIT.png http://www.gironda.org/pcl/TRUMPETS.png

the second image uses the word "exile" several times. Exile is typically associated with being cast out from one's group. The _why saga was before my time as a Rubyist but I always thought he vanished, i.e. left on his own accord. Was there an "exile" event that I am not aware of? Or does anyone know what he's talking about?

It would be only conjecture, but maybe by having light shed on his actual identity, he felt his hand had been forced? Thus leading him into exile?
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