Monthly Archive for September, 2006

CD Templates for Jewel Case in SVG

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My friends, the Cool Cavemen band, are on the way to complete the sound recording phase of their next LP. Now come the time to think about the CD artwork, and to package the music they’ve choose the standard Jewel Case format.

Jewel Cases are made of a part which hold the CD itself. This part is usually black and opaque and it remain visible on the left of the front side when the CD case is closed. Sometimes this black strip is made of transparent polystyrene, which let you see the reverse of the back cover. You can use this to make some easthetic design. So I’ve created some templates in Inkscape, because all templates I found on the web didn’t taken care of that transparent strip.

You can download those templates as SVG files under the Creative Commons Attribution licence. Here is the direct link to the SVG versions of the templates. Below are PNG versions for convenience :
CD Jewel Case Template - LeafletCD Jewel Case Template - Back CoverCD Template - CD FaceCD Jewel Case Template - Inside Back CoverCD Jewel Case Template - Front + Back Composition

Location of Kopete Emoticons

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1 year, 10 months ago
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Just in case your are looking for Kopete emoticons, they are stored in /usr/share/emoticons…

kopete-emoticons.png

That was the unnecessary post of the night. :p

How to Convert a Png image to a Website Icon (favicon)

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I know how to convert a bitmap image to a website icon, thanks to the following one-line linux command:

bmptoppm favicon.bmp | ppmtowinicon -output favicon.ico

This will convert the favicon.bmp file to favicon.ico.

Today I needed to do the same with a Png file as input. After some tests, I found the corresponding command:

pngtopnm -mix favicon.png | ppmtowinicon -output favicon.ico

This work well, but if the original .png file has an alpha channel, it will be replaced by a white background.

To override this default behaviour, add the background option to pngtopnm. For example, if you want a blue background, the command to use is the following:

pngtopnm -background=rgb:00/00/ff favicon.png | ppmtowinicon -output favicon.ico

In here, the 00/00/ff parameter is the hexadecimal conversion of RGB encoding of the blue color.

By the way, if you need more informations about website icons, I advise you to take a look at the favicon wikipedia article. Here you will find usefull tips about the conventions to apply in order to have a favicon supported by most (if not all) major browsers.

e107 to Wordpress: v0.3 add user import

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1 year, 10 months ago
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I’ve finish the third alpha version of my plugin to import e107 websites to Wordpress. This version is now able to import the all users and associate each user with their posts.

Amarok 1.4.3 for Mandriva 2006 with MySQL support

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Amarok 1.4.3 is out ! Here are the brand new packages for Mandriva 2006. This version of Amarok is a backport from the cooker repository and is built to work with KDE 3.4.2 (which is the default version that came with the free download edition of Mandriva 2006). I’ve also added in my repository all the missing depencies: TunePimp 0.4.2, libmtp and libofa0.

As requested by some peoples in my previous release, the MySQL support was missing. I’ve just added it for this 1.4.3 version. Please leave a comment to let me know if it work (or not), because I don’t use this feature myself.

As usual, take a look at previous release post and comments about Amarok if you experienced problems. There you will be able to get some tips.