But mostly, my work hours
just don’t permit much time here.<\/p>\n
I steal just enough time
for family events,
and a little gardening.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n
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I am trying to do something about my work schedule, and I hope to start posting answers to your questions, especially Ehud’s latest conundrum since he’s come up with another corker<\/a>, soon.<\/p>\n Here are a few random notes to grease the skids and get me back into practice.<\/p>\n Adrian H has written<\/a> to say:<\/p>\n We had trouble when upgrading our installation to GS v8.71, using the “silent install” of GS from a DB table. GS v8.71, incidentally, allows copying text from the generated PDF. GS v7 produced garbled text on copy\/paste.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n … and he includes a modification to the “quick and dirty CreateInstallDBF.PRG” program that I added to the article, to show the basic principle of what needs to be included in an Install.DBF for GhostScript.<\/p>\n Please do use Adrian’s mods, in the blog post comment he wrote<\/a>, if you plan to use that particular PRG to create your install DBF — actually I will repeat them here for the purposes of syntax coloring and stuff — — although there are many ways to do so. You may already have created your own method of defining the files that you wish to deploy in production and scarfing them up in a DBF\/FPT form, my PRG was just supposed to describe the required steps briefly.<\/p>\n * CREATEINSTALLDBF.PRG = MESSAGEBOX<\/span> ( “Find dir for GS Executable in next dialog…”) PROCEDURE *If the filename does not have an extension, Notice Adrian’s last recommendation, about GS v7 versus GS v8.71.<\/p>\n It’s good advice… but don’t throw away the GS v7 version. Consider the “garbled text” as a feature, not a limitation; it’s a primitive way to make your PDF non-copy-able. There is a PDF switch for doing this, and it’s probably possible to add that switch to the GS command line script that PDFClass and PDFListener build for you, but I don’t off-hand know what it is, and it would take a bit of work and testing for you to incorporate it properly.<\/p>\n You can get both versions here<\/a>.<\/p>\n That photograph at the top of this entry isn’t cherries, but I decided to treat them that way anyway. It was a little extra work, but the result tastes like lingonberry jam<\/a> and is great with yogurt. <\/p>\n Luckily I have a cherry pitter — although I subscribe to Alton Brown<\/a>‘s theory that no unitasking tool except a fire extinguisher should be permitted in a kitchen, cherry pitters don’t count. They’re in constant use in our house — to pit olives. (FWIW: I understand that Alton eventually found a second use for fire extinguishers<\/a>, too.)<\/p>\n FYI: I make a mean tea from lavendar from our beautiful and decorative garden, too, but C and I are slowly adding intended-edibles to the landscape. I mean, fun is fun, but come on.<\/p>\n Did you know that, maybe a hundred years ago, you wouldn’t have needed a cherry pitter at all? A button hook <\/a>would have done. Just another example of technology deteriorating.<\/p>\n Speaking of technological devolution… don’t get me started on Bing the Merciless. It’s not only the name that comes up short. And it’s not only my son’s job that keeps me with Google. Sigh.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve still got a bunch of questions tee’d up to answer, and no time to do it. Why? Derek and Lila got married two weeks ago! Jonah continues to be absorbingly interesting! And Paul Zygielbaum turned 60 last week, which was a matter of great joy and moment to his family and friends for many reasons.Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-techspeak","category-life","category-visual-foxpro","category-yaps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}1. Adrian’s helpful notes on PDFs<\/h2>\n
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VFP adds a .txt extension to filenames with no extension, which made Ghostscript unhappy.
Here’s a mod to Lisa’s prg that creates\/replaces the installer table directly in the DBC and nixes the bogus .txt extensions. <\/p>\n
* >L<‘s Q&D program
* for gathering the GhostScript
* files required for installation
* (c) Lisa Slater Nicholls
* Modified by Adrian [adrianh at midcoast.com]
<\/span>
LOCAL<\/span> lcTopDir, lcFile
PRIVATE ALL LIKE <\/span>j*
CLOSE DATABASES
<\/span>= MESSAGEBOX<\/span> (“Open the database and Specify the table in the next dialogs…”)
OPEN DATABASE
<\/span>
? jcInstall= PUTFILE<\/span> (“Install dbf…”,”GSinstall”,”dbf”)
IF EMPTY
<\/span> (jcInstall) = MESSAGEBOX<\/span> (“User cancelled”)
RETURN
ENDIF
DROP TABLE JUSTSTEM(jcInstall)<\/span><\/span> <\/span>
CREATE TABLE <\/span>(jcInstall) (filename c(120), DIR c(10), contents m NOCPTRANS<\/span> ) <\/p>\n
lcTopDir = GETDIR<\/span> ()
lcTopDir = ADDBS<\/span> (lcTopDir)
SET NOCPTRANS TO <\/span>contents
DO <\/span>GetFiles WITH <\/span>lcTopDir, “”
DO <\/span>GetFiles WITH <\/span>lcTopDir, “fonts\\”
DO <\/span>GetFiles WITH <\/span>lcTopDir, “lib\\”
jQuery1520962885844600045_1342192883884 CHR<\/span> (7)
= MESSAGEBOX<\/span> (“Mission accomplished…”)
RETURN<\/p>\n
<\/span> GetFiles(tTopDir, tSubDir<\/span>) <\/span>
LOCAL <\/span>lcFile, lcDir
lcDir = tTopDir + tSubDir
lcFile = SYS<\/span>(2000,FORCEPATH<\/span> (“*.*”,lcDir))
DO WHILE <\/span>NOT EMPTY<\/span> (lcFile)
INSERT INTO <\/span>(jcInstall)(filename, DIR) ;
VALUES <\/span>(JUSTFNAME<\/span> (lcFile),tSubDir)
APPEND MEMO <\/span>contents ;
FROM <\/span>(FORCEPATH<\/span> (lcFile,lcDir)) <\/p>\n
*VFP forces the file extension to “.txt” when
*you COPY MEMO to create the files later. VFP will
*not force a file extension when the name ends in “dot.”
jcName= <\/span><\/span>JUSTFNAME<\/span> (lcFile) <\/span><\/span><\/span>
IF<\/span> !(“.” $ jcName) <\/span><\/span><\/span>
REPLACE<\/span>filename<\/span> <\/span>WITH <\/span>jcName+”.”
ENDIF
lcFile = <\/span>SYS<\/span>(2000,FORCEPATH<\/span> (“*.*”,lcDir),1)
ENDDO
RETURN<\/span><\/p>\nCrazy like a fox<\/h3>\n
2. When life, or your garden, hands you ornamental plums…<\/h2>\n
3. Cherries no relation<\/h2>\n