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... in North Berkeley. WPA built along the creek, stone barbeques, tables, etc... among the Oaks...
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by justiceputnam on Mon Jul 10, 2006 at 03:59:52 PM PDT
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Is there a rental fee?
Do you live near there?
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by navajo on Mon Jul 10, 2006 at 04:09:44 PM PDT
... right here.
I tried calling the city for fee info but didn't get through.
I live in the Elmwood/Claremont neighborhood of Berkeley, not far from Rockridge.
The park in my neighborhood is Willard Park. It is mostly a first come first served operation. It has nothing fancy and is rather bare.
Live Oak is across town and quite beautiful.
by justiceputnam on Mon Jul 10, 2006 at 04:32:02 PM PDT
Our picnic area yesterday was perfect IMO.
Reservable but with NO fee Plenty of parking Nice restrooms Shade
by navajo on Mon Jul 10, 2006 at 04:47:30 PM PDT
... to where ever the picnic may be.
by justiceputnam on Mon Jul 10, 2006 at 04:59:29 PM PDT
Live Oak Park is nice. Two other great parks for picnics, and a little more off the beaten track are:
Cordonices Park -- right next to the Berkeley Rose Garden; gets a bit crowded on weekends. Wonderful view.
Cragmont Rock park -- another fantastic view; quiet N. Berkeley Hills neighborhood with and old monastery across the street. Not often crowded.
I really will make the next meetup -- I was very sad to miss Sunday's fun. (Between WC final and wedding at 4:30, no chance...)
If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else. Yogi Berra
by Twin Planets on Tue Jul 11, 2006 at 11:12:14 PM PDT
by navajo on Wed Jul 12, 2006 at 07:26:40 PM PDT
what color are your socks?
by navajo on Mon Jul 10, 2006 at 04:17:15 PM PDT
... scientists say the earth is 93 million miles from the earth and it is very hot. Light waves from the sun refract off water molecules in the atmosphere that gives the blue hue to the cones and rods in our eye.
My socks at this moment are short, short white socks that contrast nicely against the tan of my legs that I have from pedaling my hybrid beach cruiser-bicycle.
by justiceputnam on Mon Jul 10, 2006 at 04:39:48 PM PDT
When I tell photoshop to change the print image size to 2 by 2 inches why does the photo print out at 1.5 inches?
by navajo on Mon Jul 10, 2006 at 05:06:59 PM PDT
... and attempt to buy a 2 x 4; you only get a 1 1/2 x 3 5/8.
The reason is that a renewable resource is not so renewable after all. The lumber brokers and mills decided to make a 2 x 4 smaller so that the supply will last longer and new lumber can get to market.
It's the same in photoshop; there is only so much space in the universe. What was once known as infinitesimal, is now known to be somewhat more finite.
by justiceputnam on Mon Jul 10, 2006 at 05:32:23 PM PDT
I suspect that the answer is that Photoshop is thinking that images are 72dpi when they are being treated by the printer driver as 96dpi.
In which case a 144 x 144 pixel image is considered 1.5 inches by the printer, but 2 inches by Photoshop.
72 and 96 dpi are both screen size "standards"...
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by Malacandra on Mon Jul 10, 2006 at 05:53:24 PM PDT
what should I have changed to tweak?
by navajo on Mon Jul 10, 2006 at 06:01:37 PM PDT
Your OS. Macs are a lot smarter about this kind of thing.
Seriously, though, I still think it may be the same problem. Even thought your image is 230 dpi, if your system settings think the screen is 72dpi, but the printer thinks it's at 96, you got a problem.
There are a lot of variables, so it's hard to debug remotely. It could also just be printer scaling settings. Do you ever try "Print with Preview" in Photoshop? That may also give you more control to see what's going on.
by Malacandra on Mon Jul 10, 2006 at 06:08:53 PM PDT
it offered me no solutions so I guesstimated and got the print the right size.
what ever.
I hate microsoft also but too expensive to change right now.
by navajo on Mon Jul 10, 2006 at 06:15:07 PM PDT
This kind of minutia is often buried in the print preferences dialogs.
And sometimes, there's just no winning.
Computers: bah, humbug!
by Malacandra on Mon Jul 10, 2006 at 06:20:25 PM PDT
... to explain the wide world of fonts when she sent me a print job last month, poor navajo... talk about sometimes there is no winning.
When in doubt and you just have a few words as display text, convert to outlines in Illustrator :-)
Maybe we will get her on a Mac someday...
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by highacidity on Mon Jul 10, 2006 at 07:23:39 PM PDT
"When you go to the print dialog, instead of hitting the "PRINT" button, hit the PDF button, which will drop down a menu... and click on "Save as PDF", because then, you see, the fonts will be embedded in the PDF document!
Oh, right... that only works on Macs. Never mind..."
If only the world were easy.
As a web developer, I deal with clients of all levels of technical proficiency who need to send me content. And often they try to get fancy to impress me with their design skill and the vast number of typefaces they can work into a single document.
So telling people that the Word file they emailed to me won't look the same as it did on their system because I don't have those specific decorative fonts they installed from that disc of 3000 fonts that they bought for $14.99 eight years ago... well, that's perplexing enough...
... but when the words don't wrap on the same lines because my version of Helvetica (Adobe) isn't the same as their version of Helvetica (ITC)... due to different kerning tables... well, that's incomprehensible.
by Malacandra on Mon Jul 10, 2006 at 10:35:18 PM PDT
... I did prepress and design for a small printer for a while.
The pain... oh the pain...
What do you mean "separate" and why can't you use a Word file. It looks okay from my office printer...
That must be the same disc of 3000 fonts I used to hear about... And trying to explain how to make that PDF, Oh. My. God. My favorite was the "self-designed" business collateral made in Excel.
And that is not touching the issues involved with web work...
Well... you know.
by highacidity on Wed Jul 12, 2006 at 03:24:26 PM PDT
wide narrow
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