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Blizzard, WoW and Bots / Re: Cataclysm Alpha!
« on: May 04, 2010, 09:20:02 pm »
prob wont play it, heh. would rather see it for the first time when it goes live.
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Holy shit, it's 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024, and the US isn't a fascist country! What a time to be alive.
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Blizzard, WoW and Bots / Cataclysm Alpha!
« on: May 04, 2010, 02:42:20 pm »
Friend and family invites been going out. Hooray for blizzard employee guildy hookups.
http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/8163/cataicon.jpg
Edit: If anyone else gets invited, I'll be on Gilneas PvP server, Horde side. Character's name is Treesus.
http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/8163/cataicon.jpg
Edit: If anyone else gets invited, I'll be on Gilneas PvP server, Horde side. Character's name is Treesus.
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General Discussion / Re: Unexpected Internet Encounters
« on: April 27, 2010, 11:14:30 pm »
I was reading a thread on this forum when I sharted.
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Blizzard, WoW and Bots / Re: Catacylsm raiding
« on: April 27, 2010, 10:56:37 pm »
Yea. Honestly, I'm amped up about the changes. I've already got my guild for Cataclysm. 
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General Programming / Re: Create a tiff image of any file type?
« on: April 23, 2010, 07:31:11 pm »Too bad. He wants an image from a non-image format. The corresponding programs usually only deliver graphic output through the print system so he doesn't really have a choice does he?
Nope, not accurate. I have found one toolkit that does do Word, Excel and PowerPoint to TIFF without using a printer driver. It does conversions without even requiring Office or a printer. I have no clue how it works, but I know that it does work. So, I do have a choice.
He seems to suggest that he's found an exception to the "usually" ...? It wasn't just me, FYI. I didn't respond to say "I ALREADY SAID THAT JERK"... was just saying that your proposed solution didn't match the criteria he had provided. Also, you didn't say "you don't have a choice". You just suggested X -> ps/pdf -> tiff like everyone else had. If you were meaning to "emphasize" the fact that he was stuck, you didn't do a very good job.
If that's true, then it sounds like he's SOL... he seemed to suggest otherwise, and that he was just looking for someone who'd dealt with the problem before.
Correct.
The best he can do is a tiff printer driver (and they are all over Google). The only program that understands how to render a non-image format is that program itself and it usually exports that through the print system. I don't see how you can avoid printing aside of writing your own reader that can render the non-image format.
Nope.
Aah, okay. Seems like pretty good evidence of being screwed, then.
Nope.
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General Programming / Re: Create a tiff image of any file type?
« on: April 13, 2010, 12:26:31 pm »
Yes, that's great for doing image type -> image type conversions. I've had that under control. My main concern was other file types, such and Word and Excel documents -> tiff. I've got those converting to tiff, also, but I was curious if anyone knew of other "all in one" integration tools for this.
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General Programming / Re: Create a tiff image of any file type?
« on: April 09, 2010, 10:31:28 am »You said you could "just as easily have Adobe convert everything to PDF". This is a trivial additional step.
Yea, the step is trivial but include it in a process that involves converting 800GB of files to TIFF. That's going to like double the amount of time it takes. Basically, when I said that, I was just acknowledging the fact that I had already thought about the Everything -> PDF -> TIFF process and dismissed it.
There are plenty of projects that do individual file types to TIFF. I'm just going to have to continue integrating them all into my project. I was just hoping that somebody had possibly done exactly what I'm doing already.
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General Programming / Re: Create a tiff image of any file type?
« on: April 08, 2010, 07:35:56 pm »
^ ugliest console prompt ever lol.
anyways, image magick only works for image file types. not things like word, excel, etc. i may have to mix and match a bunch of crap together.
on a different note, ive found a completely undocumented function in Microsoft's Office Interop dll for Excel in C#. cant even figure out how to properly call it based on the params, and the VB documentation for something similar. =(
anyways, image magick only works for image file types. not things like word, excel, etc. i may have to mix and match a bunch of crap together.
on a different note, ive found a completely undocumented function in Microsoft's Office Interop dll for Excel in C#. cant even figure out how to properly call it based on the params, and the VB documentation for something similar. =(
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General Programming / Re: Create a tiff image of any file type?
« on: April 07, 2010, 01:44:51 pm »
I've seen that before, and I think it only does mostly image to image converstions. Like png to tiff.
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General Programming / Create a tiff image of any file type?
« on: April 07, 2010, 01:19:17 pm »
I've been writing various revisions of an application that I use at work on a regular basis. The application's purpose is to convert any file type to a tiff image. In other words, create a tiff image of that file.
Originally, I used the Windows Imaging Printer Driver, or whatever it is called. It's the built in Windows printer driver that converts what you print to an image output file. This does tiff, and it was fast. The problem with this was that it was finicky. The application has to run in the background and require no user intervention. The Windows Imaging printer would often error out and I don't think it was able to convert "anything" to an output image.
I looked for toolkit solutions that I could use with C# and that wouldn't require an external printer driver. I found one toolkit, but it didn't support a wide range of file types - lacked Visio, most notably. I believe the lack of file type support is because it doesn't require Office to print, so they're somehow imeplementing their own print rendering methods for each type, or however that works. I didn't find many others that looked professional enough to use.
I went back to the printer driver solution, but this time found a printer driver written for my exact purpose. It can take most any input that I've tried, so far, and converts it to an output image. It still relies on host applications to provide the print feature, but can supposedly be fed raw file data and determine how to render it on it's own. I've tried this and haven't been able to get it to print anything, yet. It just enters and leaves the print spool.
Anyways, I'm just wondering if anyone knows of a toolkit that can essentially do this. I know I could just as easily use Adobe to convert anything to a PDF, but TIFF is a standard we have to follow.
Originally, I used the Windows Imaging Printer Driver, or whatever it is called. It's the built in Windows printer driver that converts what you print to an image output file. This does tiff, and it was fast. The problem with this was that it was finicky. The application has to run in the background and require no user intervention. The Windows Imaging printer would often error out and I don't think it was able to convert "anything" to an output image.
I looked for toolkit solutions that I could use with C# and that wouldn't require an external printer driver. I found one toolkit, but it didn't support a wide range of file types - lacked Visio, most notably. I believe the lack of file type support is because it doesn't require Office to print, so they're somehow imeplementing their own print rendering methods for each type, or however that works. I didn't find many others that looked professional enough to use.
I went back to the printer driver solution, but this time found a printer driver written for my exact purpose. It can take most any input that I've tried, so far, and converts it to an output image. It still relies on host applications to provide the print feature, but can supposedly be fed raw file data and determine how to render it on it's own. I've tried this and haven't been able to get it to print anything, yet. It just enters and leaves the print spool.
Anyways, I'm just wondering if anyone knows of a toolkit that can essentially do this. I know I could just as easily use Adobe to convert anything to a PDF, but TIFF is a standard we have to follow.
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General Discussion / Re: Google leaves China
« on: March 24, 2010, 01:27:14 pm »
We're all happy that you care. Thanks for sharing.
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Gaming / Re: ICCUP :D
« on: March 21, 2010, 11:58:33 pm »
Wasn't JavaOp open source? So, you can't be condescending towards other bots that used JavaOp code. Besides, you didn't even write that part of JavaOp I bet, so who are you to be condescending anyways. JavaOp sucked. SoupBot 4 lyfe.
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Blizzard, WoW and Bots / Re: Who plays where?
« on: March 15, 2010, 10:00:12 am »Well, to follow up my previous post in this thread - all of my characters are on Korgath, Horde, now.
Kennypowers - 80 Death Knight
Clapton - 80 Paladin
Wompwomp - 80 Shaman
Entrop - 80 Hunter
Benjy - 71 Warlock
I don't really play right now - I've been hooked on SWG @ SWGEmu. I do plan on starting up some king of Goblin class whenever Cataclysm comes out. Probably a Goblin rogue, even though there will be tons of them. I may level my warlock up to 80, also.
Did you get a friend invite into GC or something? :>
Yes. Most of the guild officers are friends of mine in real life that I've known since like 6th grade. I was with them while they were thinking of the name. I've never really been a huge raider because I've always had to work. =\
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General Programming / Re: [win32] Detecting Installs and windows updates
« on: March 12, 2010, 09:52:19 am »
Like I said before, it sounds like you already know what you're going to do. What else are you looking for?
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General Discussion / Re: SC2 Beta activated for some Battle.net accounts
« on: March 11, 2010, 08:08:09 pm »
You're all being sarcastic, right?