Let PDFs Reign!

I ran across two very interesting links today, the first of which makes me very excited! It’s a program called CutePDF, and (the basic version, which is free) creates PDF files from anything printable. It works wonderfully, and much better than my previous form of creating PDFs. I was using a free service which, although worked, created hugely bloated files (e.g. a 31K original file came back as a 116K PDF). This worked, but I didn’t like it. However, not ever having a better (free) option, I just dealt with it.

That’s no longer the case. CutePDF created a 30K file from the same 31K original mentioned above. So this is a Good Thing. And better yet, it’s FREE! Get it Here!

A Movie…in ASCII?

I was a little curious myself when I ran across this link today, but I found it very interesting at the same time. It’s a scene from one of The Matrix movies that some random guy did in ASCII…and animated it. It’s really neat, and definitely took some time to get done right.

Two warnings, though. First off, it’s got some annoying background music (in form of Shockwave). I don’t like webpage music. I admit, I had it also once…but quickly grew out of that phase. That was several years ago. Secondly, it’s a hefty download (about 4.5MB), but it’s definitely something you should see. Check it out here!

Aside from that, not much has been going on today. Making some small progress towards getting the Trip to Canada site moved, but that’s about it.

This post was upgraded to the MZ Online Blog on 8/20/07