The raccoon needs YOU!

The raccoon needs YOU!

Well, after posting my bug on the swftools-common list, everything has gone quiet. This bug is a real pain and standing in the way for the release of RaccoonShow. As such, I need your help. I am sure some of you l33t coders out there are keen to lend your hand with an...
Always remember

Always remember

Today is [Holocaust Memorial Day](https://www.hmd.org.uk/default01.asp). Today marks the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the former Nazi concentration and extermination camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, in 1945. It is mind-boggling to think of the sheer scale of human...
Leeching companies don’t succeed

Leeching companies don’t succeed

[Dave](https://blogs.gnome.org/view/bolsh/2006/01/26/0), I agree with you, and this is one of the difficult aspects of our community. Then again, this affects all communities. If anyone is to stand up and violate the fabric of a community, retaliation is common. This...
Comment spam banished!

Comment spam banished!

People of the world, rejoice, for I have fixed my comments page to prevent automated comment spam. Now when you add a comment, you are asked to add two numbers together. This is quicker than having to generate a captcha image and more accessible. This news will no...
Always remember

Bug lover

Last night I spent a few hours hacking on RaccoonShow and resolved the bug with the PDF to JPG conversion. It seems the bug was triggered in an older version of Ghostscript (7.07 and below). In later versions of Ghostscript the conversion is fine. I am also using...
RaccoonShow

RaccoonShow

This weekend I started a new project which I have codenamed *RaccoonShow*. For a while now I have been wanting to find a tool that can take a presentation file, an audio file of the recorded talk and squeeze them together into a flash animation. I am certainly not the...