David Ringer, a writer for Wycliffe in Papua New Guinea has a blog. As you'd expect from a professional writer, it reads well, and has pictures.
tag: wycliffe
I have my fingers in many pies: IT/techie/charity/non profit/nptech/mission stuff. Founded 2004
Many Pies
Friday, May 19, 2006
Parachurch organisations
There's some interesting discussion going on in a blog entry about Parachurch Organisations. The basic question is, "do we need them?".
tags: church
tags: church
Thursday, May 18, 2006
Andy Paxo is working on One Laptop Per Child Bible translation software. Interesting stuff.
tags: OLPC
tags: OLPC
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Tuesday, May 09, 2006
Desktop fundraising
Good idea from Sarah Hughes: an application that tracks all donations that you make to various charities.
You can see my comment on the blog, in summary, I'm sceptical that it could be made to work, but happy to participate in the effort.
tags: fundraising
You can see my comment on the blog, in summary, I'm sceptical that it could be made to work, but happy to participate in the effort.
tags: fundraising
Monday, May 08, 2006
Vision 2025 website launch
The Vision 2025 website has launched. The beginning of the end of Bible translation by 2025 is the aim. I'm involved on the donations back end (under development).
tags: Wycliffe
tags: Wycliffe
Thursday, April 27, 2006
For the last few hours I've been wrestling with Word and Outlook to do an email mail merge which has embedded images. The reason I want them embedded is that Word recompresses them and makes them look worse than the originals.
My embedded I mean that the email is HTML and the original images live on a webserver, rather than being attachments to the email.
After much searching I found the answer on microsoft.public.word.mailmerge.fields in a thread entitled "email merge - problem with embedded images". (I won't link to the thread as such links would probably not work in future.)
The next problem was picture size. Even though I thought jpg pictures were just pixels, it appears that it is possible (using Microsoft Photo editor) to say how many pixels per cm (or inch) they should be displayed at. Word uses this information when displaying images, and then converts it to HTML when sending it. The trouble is when the email is received the picture is resized. For example, if the original image is 640 pixels wide and Word sends HTML saying the picture should be displayed at 500 pixels wide it is displayed as such, meaning that pixels are dropped, meaning the picture doesn't look good. (Word does the same resizing, but has a better algorithm for resampling the image.) After experimenting I found that setting pixels per cm to 30 gave a decent image. I guess because Word is page and printer orientated it has to assume something for how big to display a picture.
My embedded I mean that the email is HTML and the original images live on a webserver, rather than being attachments to the email.
After much searching I found the answer on microsoft.public.word.mailmerge.fields in a thread entitled "email merge - problem with embedded images". (I won't link to the thread as such links would probably not work in future.)
The next problem was picture size. Even though I thought jpg pictures were just pixels, it appears that it is possible (using Microsoft Photo editor) to say how many pixels per cm (or inch) they should be displayed at. Word uses this information when displaying images, and then converts it to HTML when sending it. The trouble is when the email is received the picture is resized. For example, if the original image is 640 pixels wide and Word sends HTML saying the picture should be displayed at 500 pixels wide it is displayed as such, meaning that pixels are dropped, meaning the picture doesn't look good. (Word does the same resizing, but has a better algorithm for resampling the image.) After experimenting I found that setting pixels per cm to 30 gave a decent image. I guess because Word is page and printer orientated it has to assume something for how big to display a picture.
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