Last swim of the summer 2014

Summer is nearly over. This weekend is the last hurrah before school starts. I'm with my kids at the neighborhood pool. There are many people here at the pool. I suppose everyone had the same idea.

I don't blame them. It's a beautiful evening. The sun just set and the pool lights haven't yet come on. My kids are fighting over who gets the only pair of goggles they brought.

My kids keep asking me what time it is because they know the pool lights come on at 8:30. Right now my older daughter is crying to me because her brother took the goggles. She just called me mean.

I'm going to crack open a beer and watch them swim for a bit, then eventually get in the water.

How to convert a .TIF to PDF/A with Ghostscript

Using ghostscript 9.05 to create a PDF/A from TIFF

gs->ps->pdf

%gs -d SAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dDEVICE=psdrgb -s OutputFile=figure-%d.ps figure.pdf

Notes: use # instead of = when passing parameters to ps2pdf!

%ps2pdf -sPAPERSIZE#a4 file.ps file.pdf


Ghostscrtipt cannot convert TIFF to PS

Rain Rain, Go Away

I love the rain, but this is ridiculous. Either it is raining, or it will rain, or the weatherman threatens rain. I guess this is Spring, but c'mon! It's also baseball season, and lawn season. I wanna get outside and have some fun. Even Easter was wet, wet, wet.