[Wylug-discuss] Possible contribution to The Community

[roger]

Hi Jim,

Thanks for your advice (it replicates verbal input I've had from Martyn
Ranyard as well).

I'm following it.

I must admit I'm rather over-awed by what I've found on sourceforge and
freshmeat, but the fact remains that when I tried to find what I needed, I
couldn't.  My composition really ain't that clever, but if anyone has the
same need (a simple, graphic-to-PHPfont re-formatter) it is hard to find
amongst existing stuff.

I can't be that weird, can I?  <grin - and don't answer!>

At 12:06 10/02/04 +0000, Jim Jackson wrote:

>Put it on a web site you know is indexed by google, e.g. sourceforge or
>simply your own web site, or freshmeat.net
>
>Then "Announce" it to wylug, (that gets a ptr to your page from the wylug
>mail archives always a good thing :-) and just wait, it will start turning
>up in people web searches.
>
>Jim
>
>On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, roger wrote:
>
> > Hi y'all,
> >
> > Maybe off-topic, but close (I hope)...
> >
> > I'm currently playing with PHP/MySQL and wanted a font to overlay theatre
> > seasons (eg '2003-4') onto navigation arrows.  I couldn't find one I liked,
> > but could find specs.  So I designed my own as an image file and wanted to
> > convert that to a bit-mapped font suitable for "imageloadfont()".
> >
> > Next I wanted a tool to convert from image to font...
> >
> > Suffice it to say that it would be easy to pay, or download, gillions, but
> > all the options I found were either way OTT for my needs, or only available
> > as C source (which I don't like hacking).
> >
> > Accordingly, I've written a PHP script that does the conversion from BMP
> > (not difficult, but due to format quirks in BMP, not too trivial).
> >
> > And - unless Google let me down (or, more likely I drove Google badly) -
> > that might be useful for other PHP players.
> >
> > And so to my question - how do I offer this to "the community"?  Who do I
> > tell?  Where do I send it?  How do I get an opinion as to whether it's
> > worth the trouble?
> >
> > I'd like to give something back, but how do I do it?
> >
> >
> > Good networking,
> >
> > Roger Beaumont
> >
> >
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Good networking,

Roger Beaumont