ARCHIVE PROJECT: FEB. 28/07
MATERIALS SORTED; DATA-BASE UPDATED;DOCUMENTATION COMPLETED
DELIVERY: Feb. 28/07
DEPT : German and Slavic Studies Dept.
BOXES : 6 boxes
February 28, 2007
Trish and I completed the handout (8x11) and poster (11x17). We were able to do the handout entirely in Inkscape, exporting to PDF, but for the poster we had to move the doc into Illustrator because we needed to included crop marks (there are bleeds). Eventually got it done -- Illustrator is a pig to work with after Inkscape, and its Help file is unable to open because of some bug.
Problem with the current page not highlighting the navbar properly and the Home section not appearing in the navbar in the showcase section of the HCMC site. Found and debugged those problems.
Also replaced template text on each page with a couple of more context-sensitive lines until we get content for index, layout and presentations page.
About a dozen text edits to Marie Vautier's page.
She reviewed and got back with a couple of "un-do's" and a couple more revisions.
On reflection, I don't think this is a big deal, so I'm changing it to abandoned. It's curious, but no show-stopper, and we're busy right now.
The annotation window seems to restart at a height of 613px, even if it was closed at a smaller height, and the state storage XML file shows the correct height. Perhaps it's set to a minimum somewhere, or perhaps the height isn't being reloaded correctly. Check this out.
Update: did a little more debugging on this, and the program is correctly reading the window height from the file, and attempting to set it; the result seems to be that if the height is greater than 613, it defaults to 613. There must be something which is forcing a minimum height of 613 on this window, but it's not in my code; there are no constraints in the DFM, and although there are min height constraints on some of the form components, they don't seem to add up to anything like 613...
Ran sample from each of four raw data files produced by John to consistent output file.
John's proofers should have a couple of the files ready for me to do a real trial on next week.
Waiting for word from John on what list of subject/topic keywords to use. I still have to write the code that turns each of those keywords into an integer.
Also talked to David about the best way to deal with 0 to 4 topic codes per record : comma delimited string in one field, then explode/implode as needed.
David Scott unable to upload his revised copy of call.html to the pir site. I got the file from him and uploaded it sucessfully, but the file was missing chunks of code, so I got a backup copy of the file (which I created for exactly this scenario) and stitched together the missing chunks from the backup and his revised content.
Took the basic icons I'd created yesterday and worked on them till they look better. Built all the bitmaps, then replaced the originals in the dll, and rebuilt the dll.
For future reference, this is the best way to proceed:
- Start with a document 60px by 60px in Inkscape.
- Set grid units to px, and space the lines every 5 px.
- Leave one grid width empty around the drawing.
- Group objects carefully, ending with a final group containing everything.
- Build the bitmaps on OSX (its GIMP is faster and less buggy).
- Test the results of each bitmap build operation. Look out for misplaced text; if there is any, convert the text to paths.
February 27, 2007
Caught up on various items.
Caught up on the day's correspondance: IOF TAPoR's funds, Greg's workshop demo, planning events, and the like.