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|Forrest P. Gauthier
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This application is a continuation of U.S. application, Ser. No. 08/896,899, filed Jul. 18, 1997, and issued as U.S. Pat. No. 5,937,153; which is a continuation-in-part of U.S. application Ser. No. 08/373,582, filed Jan. 18, 1995, and issued as U.S. Pat. No. 5,729,665.
The present invention relates to the high-speed printing industry, and more particularly, to a method for printing variable data using a page description language in a high-speed printing environment.
Application programs, such as Adobe Illustrator�, typically include a program which generates a specification of a screen or page's contents in a page description language. The specification, or page description code, provides instructions as to how to generate the image in a printer. The page description code is transferred from the application program to a printer, where it is executed to generate a bit map of the page. The most commonly used page description language is PostScript�, which is a machine independent language produced by Adobe Systems, Inc.
An application program page typically contains a number of data areas with either graphic or alphanumeric data. The PostScript language includes commands that define or build "graphics states" for each of the data areas on the page. These graphics states are sets of default attributes such as angle, scale factor, type-font, location, etc., which define how data is to appear on the page. Often, multiple graphics states are defined for a single page, with the different graphic states corresponding to different data areas on the page. Examples of commands that are used in PostScript to build a graphics state are: 20 rotate, /Times-Roman findfont, 14 scalefont, and setfont. In addition to commands which build graphics states, PostScript specifications also include the graphic or alphanumeric data which is displayed in the data areas, as well as a print command such as "SHOW", which causes a bit map to be generated for the data.
In the past, page description languages, including PostScript, have only been used to print static data pages, because page description languages lack the functionality required for variable data printing. In variable data printing, each page shares a common background, and the displayed data in at least one data field changes for each page. Up until now, it has not been possible to print pages of variable data with page description languages such as PostScript, because the page description languages are unable to save page backgrounds and graphics states from a page specification, and are thus unable reuse the same background and graphics states when printing subsequent pages. Thus, with page description languages such as PostScript, whether the entire page is changed, or only a single item of data on the page is changed, a new page description language specification is generated to print each separate page.
For example, if thousands of copies of a mass mailing advertisement were to be printed, each copy being identical except for the recipient's name and address, it would be necessary to generate a new PostScript specification defining the page background, and the graphics states for the name and address fields, for each new name and address that is printed. Hence, to print 50 advertisements, it would be necessary to generate 50 PostScript specifications which each define virtually the same image.
In general, PostScript specifications are very complex and require extensive processing to generate and execute. Thus, generating a new PostScript specification each time a page of variable data is printed consumes an immense amount of processing time. In high-speed printing systems, it is typically the processing time, not the printer hardware, which determines the speed at which pages can be printed. Therefore, the processing required to repetitively redefine the same background and graphics states for each page of variable data significantly slows the entire printing system.
Due to the amount of processing time consumed in redefining the page template and graphics states for each new page of data that is printed, as well as the resultant effect on printing speed, it is desirable to have a method for processing variable data wherein once defined, the template and graphics states for a page can be stored and reused for printing subsequent pages. Further, it is desirable to have a method for printing variable data which is compatible with existing printing systems and page description languages, such as PostScript, and which is capable of processing variable data in a high-speed industrial printing system.
It is an object of the present invention to provide a method for utilizing variable data with a page description language, which enables the template and graphics states for a page of variable data to be defined and stored; and which enables the stored graphics states to be associated with multiple items of variable data from a database or merge file; so that once stored, the graphics states can be repeatedly applied to the items of variable data to print multiple pages of variable data or multiple variable data bitmaps. Further, it is an object of the present invention to provide such a method which is compatible with existing page description languages, and which can be used in a high-speed industrial printing system.
The method of the present invention is implemented by means of a control task which executes in conjunction with a page description code interpretive program, such as a PostScript program, to identify variable data areas in the page description code specification, and reserve the graphics states for the variable data areas as they are defined by the specification. After the interpreter program has executed, a merge task is initiated. The merge task associates items of variable data from a data file with the reserved graphics states, generates a bit map for each variable data area, merges the bit maps with the page template, and outputs a complete bit map for the page. Accordingly, in the method of the present invention, bit maps for multiple pages of variable data are generated from a single page description language specification.
The present invention assumes the generation of a page specification in PostScript, or another similar page description language, by the application program, and the transfer of this specification to a printer. According to the present invention, a control task activates and monitors the PostScript interpreter program in the printer. As the interpreter executes, it defines graphics states for the data areas on the page. The PostScript attributes for a graphics state are stored in a stack as they are defined, so that at any given point in the code, the stack represents all of the PostScript attributes for the current graphics state.
When the control task identifies a print command in the code, the control task interrupts the interpreter to determine whether the data to be printed is variable data. If the data is variable, the current graphics state, consisting of the attributes then existing in the stack and job specific attributes which are defined in a job file, is linked to the data area and reserved in an internal database. Further, character bit maps are generated in accordance with the graphics state, and linked to and reserved with the graphics state. After the graphics state and character bit maps have been reserved, the PostScript interpreter is resumed at the line of code following the print command.
The interpreter continues executing until either the control task detects another print command, or the last line of code is reached. If a second print command is detected, the interpreter is interrupted again and the above steps repeated, to reserve the stack contents and job attributes for the second data area, and to generate and store a second set of character bit maps. The control task continues in this manner monitoring and interrupting the interpreter program, until all of the variable data areas on the page have been detected, and graphics states and possibly character bit maps for the variable data areas have been reserved in the database.
As the PostScript interpreter executes, a bit map of the non-variable background graphics and text, otherwise referred to as a "template", is generated for the page. At the last code command, which in PostScript is typically "SHOWPAGE," the control task terminates the PostScript interpreter, and reserves the template in the database.
The merge task is then initiated to print variable data pages using the reserved page template, graphics states and character bit maps. The merge task begins by retrieving a merge file containing the variable data to be printed. After retrieving the merge file, the task identifies the correct template for the current page, and the names of the graphics states related to that template, from data in the merge file. Then, using the name of the first graphics state reserved for the template, the merge task retrieves the graphics state from the database and the character bit maps linked to that state. The merge task then retrieves data corresponding to that graphics state from the appropriate field in the merge file, and generates a bit map of the data in accordance with the graphics state and character bit maps. The merge task then merges the data bit map into the template. After the bit map has been generated and merged, the merge task identifies retrieves another graphics state for the template and repeats the process. If there are no more graphics states which correspond to variable data areas on the page, the merge task outputs the finished bit map for the page.
After the first page of data has been printed, the merge task retrieves a "clean" template from the database, and again identifies the graphics states for the page. The merge task then retrieves the next record of variable data from the database, and generates variable data bit maps for each of the fields in the record, in accordance with the reserved graphics states and character bit maps which correspond to each of the fields. The merge task continues in this manner, identifying variable data areas and generating bit maps for the variable data in the merge file, until a page has been printed for each variable data record in the file.
The method of the present invention is advantageous in that once the graphics states and template have been defined for a variable data page, they can be reused to print multiple pages of variable data with only a minimal amount of additional processing.
Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a method for printing variable data with a page description language; a method which increases the speed at which variable data pages can be printed; a method which enables the printing attributes for a page to be saved and used for printing multiple pages of data; and a method which is compatible with existing page description languages and printing systems.
Other objects and advantages of the present invention will be apparent from the following description, the accompanying drawings and the appended claims.
FIG. 1 is a data flow diagram illustrating the preferred embodiment of the method of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is an example of a variable data page generated in accordance with the method of the present invention.
The present invention provides a computer-implemented method for reserving graphics states, which enables a page description language to be used for variable data printing. In accordance with the present invention, graphics states describing variable data areas are generated by a page interpreter program and reserved in an internal database. The graphics states are later accessed from the database and used for printing variable data pages. The method of the present invention can be employed with a conventional page description language, such as PostScript, to enable variable data pages to be printed with a minimum amount of processing.
As shown in FIG. 1, an image containing text and/or graphics data is created at a workstation 10, using a graphics application program such as Adobe Illustrator�. As the image is created, the application program displays the image on the workstation screen. When the image is complete and ready to be printed as a page, the application program generates a specification of the image in PostScript in a conventional manner.
After the PostScript file 11 is generated, it is transferred from the workstation 10 to a printer generally designated as 12. In the printer 12, a PostScript interpreter 14 is executed to generate a pagemap of the image. In the method of the present invention, a control task operates in the printer 12 to initiate the PostScript interpreter program 14 and a merge task 16. The control task is initiated upon power-on of the printer 12, and controls and coordinates the variable data printing.
As the PostScript interpreter 14 executes, it defines the PostScript graphics state attributes for the page. These attributes can include the size, font, position, orientation, and location in which the graphic or text data is to appear on the page. The specifics of the attributes which are available in PostScript to define how data is to appear on a page would be well-known to one skilled in the art. Therefore, further description of these PostScript attributes is not provided.
However, one of the PostScript attributes, namely the region, has been expanded in the present invention to allow for variable data printing. In the method of the present invention, the region attribute is used to define the boundaries or extent to which a variable data graphics state will be allowed to effect a page. The graphics state extent is an invisible boundary which acts as a clippath for the page, to prevent variable data for a particular graphics state from extending outside the intended boundaries of the graphics state. The region of the graphics state extent is defined without altering PostScript, by using an ordinary shape, which is created as part of the image, to define the region. In the present invention, the artist creates a shape representing the extent as part of the page image, and specifies a particular trigger color or gray scale for the shape. Thus, the artist could include a medium gray scale rectangle in the upper left-hand corner of the page, with the boundaries of the rectangle representing the extent which the artist has defined for the graphics state positioned at that comer of the page. The medium gray scale will then represent the trigger color, and will be specified as the trigger for the region attribute in a job file 18 in the printer 12.
In addition, a second parameter in the job file 18 can be used to specify whether the rectangle should appear on the page, or whether it is being used only to define a graphics state extent. Thus, if the artist also wants the medium gray scale rectangle to appear on the printed page, this parameter enables the color to act as a trigger, yet not inhibit the artist's design. When the rectangle is interpreted during the method of this invention, the control task will detect the trigger color and will save an "invisible" boundary represented by the rectangular as part of the graphics state.
As the PostScript attributes are defined, they are placed in a stack. When a new attribute is defined, it is added to the top of the stack. When an attribute is deleted, it is removed from the stack. The combination of all of the attributes located in the stack at any point during the execution of the PostScript interpreter 14 constitutes the "current" graphics state for the page.
When the interpreter reaches a print command, such as "SHOW" in PostScript, the command triggers the control task to interrupt the interpreter program. During this interruption, the control task interprets data in the PostScript file 11 and reserves a graphics state if the data is variable. Normally in a PostScript file, data which is to appear on the printed document is enclosed within parentheses. Thus, the control task identifies data in the file 11 by locating parentheses in the code.
After the control task identifies the data, it interprets the data to determine whether it is static data, which is to be part of the page template, or variable data. To interpret the data, the control task first reads the data located in the parentheses and compares the data with a list of literal data strings stored in the job file 18. The job file 18 contains a list of data strings which are each associated with the name of a graphics state and its corresponding data field in a merge file 20. In the preferred embodiment, the graphics state name is the same as the field name in the merge file 20. The merge file 20 contains variable data arranged in records, with each record corresponding to a different page. Each record contains one or more data fields, which each correspond to separate variable data areas on the page. The list of data strings and associated graphics state names is entered in the job file 18 by the print operator prior to initiating the print job. If the data from the PostScript file 11 matches a data string in the job file 18, the control task replaces the data from the file 11 with the graphics state name associated with the matching data string. In this manner, the control task transforms static data in the PostScript file into a variable data field, by substituting a graphics state field name for the static data in the file.
In a second embodiment, the graphics state name corresponding to the data area is defined directly within the PostScript file 11, by making the name part of the image that is created in the application program. In this embodiment, the name is enclosed within brackets in the file, such as "<<>>", to enable the control task to identify the data as defining a graphics state rather than being an ordinary data string. Thus, to define the graphics state "ADDRESS" within the PostScript file 11, the following would appear before a show command in the code: "(<<ADDRESS>>)". This second embodiment is advantageous in that it does not require the control task to compare the file data with a data list in the job file 18; however, it does require coordinating the graphics state and field names between the merge file 20 and the application program.
If the control task determines that the data corresponds to a variable area, it reads the current contents of the graphics state stack to determine the attributes to be used for printing data in that area. In addition to the PostScript attributes specified in the stack, the graphics state can also include attributes which are specifically tailored to variable data printing. These additional attributes can either appear after the graphics state name inside a "show" command, if the graphics state is defined directly in the PostScript file, or can be specified in the job file 18 prior to execution of the print job. These additional attributes specify how the variable data is to be positioned within the graphics state. The following is a list of the variable data attributes which can be specified for a print job:
A label used to identify the data to which the graphics state applies. A single datum may be inserted into more than one graphics state so this attribute is not unique to a single state.
A list of character glyphs, both attributes and images, which are available for use in the graphics state. (e.g. an alphabet of 72 point Times-Roman bold italic characters).
Static Data:
Data to be used in the event that variable data is not available.
A number used to uniquely identify a graphics state.
How to handle the text left to right-left border, right border, centered or justified.
How to place the text vertically in the graphics state. This could be top, bottom or centered.
Word Wrapping:
Selects a word wrapping algorithm.
Dynamic Registration:
Information on how to determine the registration from one page to the next.
Logic Mode:
The manner in which the bitmap merge takes place. This is one of seven binary combination techniques.
DP Procedure:
A procedure (or program) used to manipulate the variable data just before the graphics state is applied.
Data Selection:
Which portions of the variable data to use.
Selects underlined text.
When the control task is triggered to reserve a graphics state, the above listed attributes, if specified, are combined with the PostScript attributes from the stack, and reserved as a single graphics state under the name obtained from the PostScript file 11 or the job file 18 such as shown at 22.
After the control task has compiled the attributes for the current graphics state, it may instruct PostScript to generate a font cache 26 for the graphics state. The font cache 26 consists of a character bit map for each of the alphanumeric characters A-Z and 0-9 generated in the font specified in the graphics state. After PostScript has generated all of the character bit maps, and placed the bit maps in the font cache 26, the font cache is linked to the graphics state 22, and reserved in the database. After the control task has reserved the current graphics state 22 and the font cache 26 in the database, it resumes execution of the PostScript interpreter 14 at the first line of code after the print or "SHOW" command, so that the print command is not executed.
After the interpreter is resumed, it continues defining graphics state attributes for the page, until the control task detects another print or "SHOW" command. Upon detecting another print command, the control task again interrupts execution of the interpreter, and determines whether the data in the PostScript file 11 corresponds to a variable data area. If the data corresponds to a variable data area, the control task again substitutes a graphics state name from the job file 18 for the data in the PostScript file 11, and reads the graphics state attributes from the stack and job file. The control task also instructs PostScript to generate another font cache, if the attributes of the current graphics state differ from the attributes of previously reserved graphics states. The current graphics state and font cache are then linked, and reserved in the database under the second graphics state name from the job file 18, such as shown at 24. If the data does not correspond to a variable data area, the control task resumes execution of the interpreter at the print command, so that a bit map for the data can be generated and added to the template.
At the final line of code, the template is complete, and incorporates all of the static text and graphic data that is to appear on the printed document. At this point, the control task terminates the interpreter, and saves the template to the database such as shown at 28. In PostScript, the control task is triggered to save the template by the "SHOWPAGE" command.
Since the control task of the invention operates externally of the PostScript interpreter, the method of the present invention enables bit maps and graphics states to be generated by the interpreter in a conventional manner. However, rather than printing a completed page map at the end of the interpreter program, the method of this invention reserves the page maps, character bit maps and graphics states generated by the interpreter, in order that they may be subsequently accessed and used to print multiple pages of variable data.
After the interpreter has been terminated, the control task initiates the merge task 16. The merge task 16 interfaces between the merge file 20, which has been pre-programmed with items of variable data, and the database in which the templates, font caches and graphics states defined by the interpreter have been saved, in order to combine the variable data with a template on a single page map. The merge task 16 begins by accessing the merge file 20 to retrieve the name of the template for the page, and then retrieving the specified template from the database. In addition, the merge task 16 retrieves the names of the data fields and reserved graphics states which are associated with the selected template from the merge file 20.
Using the name corresponding to the first graphics state on the page, the merge task 16 accesses the merge file 20 and retrieves the data stored under that field name in the first data record. In the representative merge file 20 shown in FIG. 1, the field names are NAME and NUMBER.
After the merge task 16 has read the data corresponding to the designated field name, it retrieves the graphics state which was reserved under the same name, as well as the character bit maps which are linked to that graphics state. The merge task 16 then generates a bit map of the data in accordance with the graphics state attributes. After the bit map is generated, it is merged into the template at the region corresponding to the graphics state, by writing the data bit map over the existing template bit map.
It will be apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art that it is within the scope of the invention to write the data bit map over a clean page as opposed to the template bitmap. For example, if the template contains no static bitmap data, then it would not be necessary to save an empty bitmap of the template in the database as described above. Thus, it is within the scope of the invention that the PostScript file 11 defines only variable data areas and does not define any static data areas. Such a PostScript file is illustrated in FIG. 1.
After the data from the first field has been merged into the template, the merge task 16 reads the name corresponding to a second variable data area from the merge file 20, if a second variable area exists on the page. The merge task 16 then retrieves the graphics state and linked font cache having the same name as the second variable area. Next, using this name, the merge task 16 again accesses the merge file 20, and reads the data from the field of the same name. The merge task 16 then generates a bit map for the data in accordance with the graphics state and font cache, and again merges the data bit map into the template 28.
The merge task 16 continues the steps of identifying variable data areas for the template, retrieving graphics states and character bit maps corresponding to the variable areas, accessing variable data from the merge file 20, and generating bit maps for the variable data, until bit maps have been generated and merged for all of the variable data to be included on the page. When a bit map has been generated for each variable data area, and merged with the template 28, the pagemap is output for printing as shown at 29.
The merge task 16 then proceeds with printing a second page using the same template and graphics states, but a different variable data record in the merge file 20. To print the second page, the merge task 16 retrieves a "clean" template from the database. Next, the merge task 16 again identifies the name of the first variable data area for that template and retrieves the graphics state of the same name. Then, the merge task 16 reads the data for that field from the second record of the merge file 20, and generates a bit map of the data using the retrieved graphics state attributes and character bit maps. Once the bit map is generated, the merge task 16 merges the bit map into the template by writing the bit map over the template at the location defined by the graphics state.
The merge task 16 then continues processing in this manner until bit maps have been generated and merged into the template for all of the graphics states reserved for the page. After all of the bit maps for the second page have been merged into the template, the page is printed. The merge task 16 continues, repeating these steps for each record of data in the merge file 20, until all of the variable data records have been printed on a page.
FIG. 2 shows a variable data page printed in accordance with the method of this invention. On this page, the data fields 30 and 32 are static fields which are part of the page template. The data field 34 containing the name "William" is a variable data field. Different names such as Mark or Sam, from the merge file 20, are printed in this field on subsequent pages. The font, angle and color contrast in which "William" is displayed are all aspects of the graphics state which were defined and stored during the steps of the present invention. Data field 36 which contains the number "00467727" is a second variable data area on the page. Again, the data displayed in this area varies on each page, depending upon the contents of the merge file 20.
While the method described constitutes a preferred embodiment of the invention, it is to be understood that the present invention is not limited to this precise form, and that variations may be made without departing from the scope of the invention.
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Genre: All-Sex
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All that remains for Tres to do is exonerate his brother, find the real killer (whose clue-laden e-mails alternate with Tres's narrative, delivering Texas-sized creepiness), save the ranch, and with the help of Maia Lee, a beautiful lawyer from his past, untangle a skein of Doebler family murder, misery, and hurt. Witty, sharp as glass, and plotted as well as it's written, The Devil Went Down to Austin paints a high-tech Texas laced with treachery and tequila before a cranked-up Jimmy Buffett backdrop. Expect great things, because Riordan delivers. --Michael Hudson
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It probably won't alter the porn world in any discernible way, nor is it likely to suddenly become the most talked-about piece of adult entertainment since, uh, whichever celebrity sex tape last had journalists clamoring for an easy and inflammatory pull quote, but Nutabu is nevertheless a very promising new venture that boasts openly of its 4K resolution Ultra HD movies, it's innovative shooting style, and the dozens of gorgeous European gals lining up to work their magic on more pixels than ever before. But, HD aside, what else does Nutabu bring to the table?
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Tattersall, Ian.
Human odyssey.
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Ian Tattersall; American Museum of Natural History.
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|xiii, 191 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 29 cm
|In the beginning --
Humans are vertebrates --
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Primate evolution --
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The great leap forward --
Toward modern humans --
The Neanderthals --
The origin of modern humans --
The human spirit.
|Ian Tattersall ; foreword by Donald C. Johanson.
Here are the stories behind such famous fossil discoveries as Gigantopithecus, the "Black Skull," "Java Man," and "Lucy," and the surprising clues they reveal about the date and place of human origins. Here too are the bold theories and controversies that have influenced the field of evolution, from the idea of natural selection put forth by Charles Darwin to the new role that DNA analysis plays in fossil research. Illustrated throughout with more than a hundred photographs, drawings, maps, and stunning artistic re-creations of early humans and their environment, The Human Odyssey is virtually a portable museum devoted to this fascinating subject. Drawing from the latest research in both the laboratory and the field, it clearly illuminates some of the most provocative questions scientists have ever asked: Where did we come from, and how did we become what we are today?
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- Setting up the work area
- Bringing artwork into Illustrator
- Tracing artwork manually
- Creating complex shapes
- Working with paths
- Using Live Trace
- Coloring artwork
- Applying 3D effects
- Exporting artboards
- Options for saving files
Skill Level Intermediate
There are few occasions when working in Illustrator that using the pencil tool or the paint brush tool, which refer to as the sketching tools isn't practical, because drawing freehand isn't easy for one reason or another. For example, if you don't have access to a Wacom tablet and a pen, or other graphics tablet, it can be quite difficult and cumbersome to draw shapes using a mouse. Or, if you want to do highly technical drawings, where the curves and lines need to be really precise. Then the Pencil tool and the Paintbrush tool, with their kind of freehand type of sketching, isn't really appropriate. Now, in these situations the tool of choice is always the Pen tool. Pen tool is fantastic, it can be a little bit tricky to use if you have never used it before.
But believe me it's worth learning, and it's worth getting over the awkwardness of using Bézier curves initially to be able to get a precise level of control, further down the line. Now, when you click and hold on the pen tool you'll see that you get access to four other tools, or three other tools rather. You have the pen tool, the add anchor point tool, the delete anchor point tool, and the convert anchor point tool. If you want to you can hover over the tear off strip and have these tools float above your work space, as you're working.
Now, we're going to use these to draw the legs of our character. And I'm just going to run through how to use the pen tool for anyone who hasn't used it before. Now, the pen tool can be used to draw both straight lines and curves. Drawing straight lines is easy, you just click to create your first point, and then click again to make your second. Illustrator will draw a straight line between those two points, and I can continue clicking to create a series of straight lines. Now, I'm going to undo that, and what I'm going to do, is get you now to follow along.
So I want you to open Pentel.AI, and you can find that in the Tracing Paths Manually folder. And what I want you to do is make sure you have the pencil selected and this time, instead of just clicking, I want you to click and drag, and as you drag, you'll see these handles coming out from the point. Now, what these handles do, these are called Bezier handles and what they do is they allow you to determine the angle and the amount of curve that you're about to draw. Now, dragging handles around determines the angle of curve.
For example, if I want to create a curve going around his belly here, then I would pull the handles out in this direction, and then when I draw my next point, you'll see it creates a curve in that direction. Now, pulling the handle out farther determines the amount of curves. So let's just undo that last step and let's draw this again. Now this time, we want to go in this direction, so I want you to click and drag towards that direction. Now, pulling the point out from the center point determines the amount of curve.
Let me just show you this, so without you following, if I drag a small amount in that direction. And then click down here, it creates a very shallow curve. If I undo that, back to the start and click and drag quite far, then it creates a much steeper curve. And you'll see that that's practically perfect. Okay, so if you've drawn and practiced a couple of times what I want you to do is undo till there are no points. And what we're going to do is start to draw this path together. Now, one more thing to show you. If I click and drag the first point and then click on the second point that's now going to create a straight edged point. So if I click here, I get a straight line.
I don't want us to do that, so what I do is on the second point I click and drag again. What that does is that helps me refine the curve before this point and also determine the angle? After the point, so what I want you to do is just drag, concerning on the line between the points, making sure that matches that leg. So I'm going to undo a couple steps again and run through that process with you. So let's undo, so we click and drag on this point out to about there. And then we click and drag down on this point until the line between the points matches the line of his trousers as much as we can. Now, in order to do that, we've had to drag this quite a lot, which means that if I was then to draw the next point, it would create too big a curve. So I'm going to undo that to here, and I'm going to show you how you can adjust the curve before you continue drawing.
Now, you don't want to select this tool here, the convert anchor point tool, because as soon as you select another tool, this path is going to become broken, and you'll start drawing a new path. Instead, what I want you to do is, move over the handle and hold down the Alt key to convert to the convert anchor point tool temporarily. Above that's will do, allow you to adjust the handle without breaking the puff. So, what one needs to do is just change the direction so it's coming out about that angle and then release. And if you let go of Alt key, you go back to the pen to and you can continue drawing.
So, again on this one I am going to click and drag, and then release. If I want to adjust the angle, which I do here, hold down the Alt key, click and drag in the direction I want to go, and then release. Click up here, choose the direction, get the curve matching, hold down the Alt key, change the direction, click and drag here to get the curve following the path. And then finally, I'm going to click once here, and I'm going to leave this as an open path.
Now, if I now select the selection tool I can also change the fill so that we can see the drawing behind, so I'm going to choose the fill swatch and then I'm going to hit on none, and that's going to remove the fill from my new path. Now, you may have noticed that we've just drawn this on an existing layer. Now, if I open up my layers, you'll see I've actually drawn it on the head layer, which was a bit of a deliberate mistake. Now, if I want to add this to a new layer, all I need to is hold down the Alt key and click on the New Layer button and we'll call this left leg. Click on Okay, and instead of having to copy and paste it to that layer all I need to do with the layer selected or the object selected is click on this little red square here and drag it up to the new layer, and now that exists on a new layer.
Now, we'll very quickly alt click on the new layer button again. Create a right leg, and what I want to you to do is use the pen tool to draw on that again. Now, what I recommend doing is just locking down the other layers so you don't accidentally draw on those. Select the pen tool again and this time we'll start drawing from here. Click and drag down to start the curve, click and drag across to adjust the curve to fit the shape here. Hold down the Alt key to break the handles and change the direction of the curve, click and drag here to make the curve match the join behind. Hold down the Alt key to determine the new angle, and then draw down here. Now, at the bottom you'll see he's obscured by this dog, so we have to kind of somewhat make this up here.
Some going to alt click and drag and then we'll click and drag here to create the bottom of his leg, again alt click and drag. And I'm going to create a little knee here, so let's just create a small bump for his knee. We'll change the direction again holding down the Alt key and then click at the top. So again, we've created another open path. Now, if you want to close the path, which I'm not going to do, but I'll show you how to do it is you just hold the cursor over the first point until you see a little o beside it. I don't know if you can see that, but as I move the cursor it changes and it has a little o beside it so I click on that and that will close the path for me. So that was how to use the pen tool to create shapes, though it may be difficult to draw with the mouse if you haven't got access to a Wacom tablet, I'm just going to undo that last point, so you have an open path.
And I'm going to suggest that you practice using the pen tool to really perfect the techniques of drawing using Bezier curves.
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BP proves Beyond Petroleum was greenwashing, joins "biggest global warming crime ever seen"
The tar sands are rightly called one of the world's greatest environmental crimes, as I've written. No company that invests in the Canadian tar sands can legitimately call itself green.
Yet BP, the oil company that lavished millions on advertising its move "Beyond Petroleum," announced this month it's putting $3 billion into this dirtiest of dirty fuels!
BP is buying a half-share of the ironically named Sunrise field:
"BP's move into oil sands is an opportunity to build a strategic, material position and the huge potential of Sunrise is the ideal entry point for BP into Canadian oil sands," said Tony Hayward, BP's group chief executive.
The company ultimately plans to produce 200,000 barrels of oil a day from the field.
Shame on you BP!
Just how bad are the tar sands environmentally? As The Independent explains:
The booming oil sands industry will produce 100 million tonnes of CO2 (equivalent to a fifth of the UK's entire annual emissions) a year by 2012, ensuring that Canada will miss its emission targets under the Kyoto treaty….
The oil rush is also scarring a wilderness landscape: millions of tonnes of plant life and top soil is scooped away in vast open-pit mines and millions of litres of water are diverted from rivers — up to five barrels of water are needed to produce a single barrel of crude and the process requires huge amounts of natural gas.
What does BP have to say about the environment in its press release?
"The result will be the development of a major new Canadian oil field and the modernization and expansion of the Toledo refinery to allow far greater use of Canadian heavy oil and to increase clean fuels production by as much as 600,000 gallons a day."
Clean fuels?! Do they really think we are that ignorant and gullible?
Mike Hudema, the climate and energy campaigner for Greenpeace in Canada, had a more accurate description:
By jumping into tar sands extraction it is taking part in the biggest global warming crime ever seen and BP's green sheen is gone.
If the tar sands are Beyond Petroleum, then BP should just stick with good old petrol for the sake of the planet and stop its greenwashing ads.
10 Responses to BP proves Beyond Petroleum was greenwashing, joins "biggest global warming crime ever seen"
Oh my. How shocking. An oil company is investing in oil extraction. What's next? A pet store selling pets? Dunkin Donuts selling donuts?
Snark away, David. When a company spends millions painting itself as forward-looking and trying to go green (with their investments in solar, particularly) it's still worth pointing out to people when they throw tar in our faces.
Is that stuff the reason why BP keeps insisting they need to dump more pollution into Lake Michigan from the Whiting, IN refinery?
This solar plan looks much better:
All the oil companies will be falling in the not to distant future. Oil Peak has maybe hit and the oil companies have no other place to go with the decreases in oil production. It makes it that much more important to have plug-in alternatives.
What provides the power for plug ins? How soon? In the meantime, from where does the oil to keep the economy moving come? Peak oil isn't the immediate problem. The immediate problem is easy oil. At 86 billion barrels a year, the easy oil is quickly depleting.
They invest in tar sands because it's all that is left. Offshore and tar sands.
"What provides the power for plug ins?"
The DOE says 80% of cars could be plug ins before more base load power was needed. Most PHEVs would be recharged at night when we have an excess of electricity. Plus, with a smart grid we could have vehicle to grid system, using the batteries in cars to balance the grid. As the transition to a cleaner grid is made, it will become increasingly clean to charge vehicles.
Even if coal is the source of power, it's still cleaner to plug cars in and run them on electricity. The grid overall is cleaner than coal.
If all that is left is offshore and tar sands, then we should have been transitioning to clean energy 20 years ago.
However, the oil companies themselves have been the biggest obstacle to anything green, with their disinformation/propaganda campaign on climate change as well as on energy choices.
And how can peak oil not be the problem if they only have offshore and tar sands left?
David must think there is no problem with the environment. He imagines, I guess, that humans can survive after we have caused the collapse of every ecosystem on earth. I'd say we are probably threatening that, even without global warming.
But hey, who cares what science says right?
Just when we were ready to become optomistic here comes BP.
Happily most of the comments are about the stupidity of tar sand oil.
I am pulled towards the electric option, and find myself encouraged by thinkers like Richard Mercer.
The Davids of the world (see post above) are strong. Note that his comment is dated Dec 2007, and despite outrage, tar sand is still proceeding apace.
Hopefully the 44th President can, amongst his myriad other duties, enable a system where change can happen quickly. We don't really have time just to talk about things whilst it's business as usual.
I am still amazed to see, that despite over-whelming evidence to the contrary, people are still delusional enough to believe that man is causing a rise in the earths average temerature.
These same people claiming to be encuraged by "thinkers" like Richard Mercer are the same people who fail to think when facts debunking their religion are presented.
No evidence any Environmentalist can can despute this one simple fact. All planets in our solar system have heated in pace with the earth, who is causing the warming there.
Here, from back in 2007 even.
Not polluting is good, caring for the earth is good because it simply makes good sense, not because the future of this planet depends on it.


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Summary: LITTLE TOYS WITH BIG PROBLEMS! Decades ago toy manufacturers created the Tin Town wind-up toys which were later forgotten and stored away... until now. The kiddos pulled the toys down from the attic and put them into action once more. The Historicals, Kandy Kingdom and Best Forgotten Island collections never saw eye-to-eye, and now that the kids jammed the toy sets together the trouble is multiplying like never before. WHAT IN TARNATION IS THIS GAME? Trouble in Tin Town is a turned-based strategy game inspired by children's wind-up toys from past eras. Play through three different campaigns, each starring a different toy faction. As you progress through the campaigns, you will battle alongside Davy Crockett with his rambunctious critter hat, mad horror writer Edgar Allan Poe, and more. Help a detective dinosaur solve a heinous murder, brawl with cupcakes in boxing gloves, set off giant pyramid eyeball traps, and take over the White House. Abraham Lincoln and the Historicals guide you through the first campaign, in which a Tin Town conspiracy threatens to undermine the Historicals from all sides. HISTORY IS HYSTERICAL! Good ole Aunt Rosie bought the kids the Historical Figure play-set because she thought it would be educational. The kids weren't too excited about the toys until they discovered they could modify them with weapons. Now Ben Franklin is armed with a lighting rod gun and Abraham Lincoln wields dual axes. These statesmen can hold their own in Tin Town. EVOLUTION TOOK A LEFT TURN! Prehistoric creatures that never could have been. These toys are one company's vision of evolution after it took a few awkward turns. Special units include Finneas T. Rex, the gentlemen detective dinosaur, Banana Bob the guerrilla warrior and Congo Jimmy, a hobo ape and the leader of the islanders. THIS KANDY WILL MAKE YOU KRAZY! The Kandy Kingdom is the promotional toy set from Krazy Kandy Incorporated, a wacky candy company whose slogan is "Our Kandy will make you KRA-A-Zee!" The Kingdom is ruled by King Kandyheart and protected by Cupcake Brawlers, CandyCane Riflemen, Bubblegum Bears, and the vivacious Wax Lips. 26 LEVELS OF KRA-A-ZEE, HYSTERICAL, LEFT-TURN MADNESS Face adversity at Battle Creek, slog-n-slug through Icing Land, freeze your toy toes off in the Chewgooey Arctic. Visit the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World! But beware of the insidious and often hideous traps that lie within each. Watch out on the Best Forgotten Island for roving idol heads, alligator bridges and sock monkeys with rabies that do the dance of death on your forehead. ALL WOUND UP AND READY FOR A FIGHT!!! YOU CONTROL 24 QUIRKY TOY CHARACTERS! Davy Crockett, William Shakespeare, Genghis Khan, Napoleon Bonaparte, Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Ben Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, Cupcake Brawlers, Lollipop Lobbers, Bubblegum Bears, Candy Cane Riflemen, Tamale Bandito, Z-Nut, Wax Lips, The Kandy King, Zillamite, Tiki Head, Cave Cat, Eddy The Sweaty Yeti, Fat Zilla, Banana Bob, Finneas T. Rex, and Congo Jimmy WHERE DID THEY GET THOSE AMAZING ABILITIES? You can upgrade every toy's attack as you progress through the game. Crockett goes from an uppercut to a raccoon hat flail. Shakespeare slings books, arrows, and even the skull of Yorick! Franklin zaps enemies with his lightning gun and Lovecraft hurls a squid! Poe fires ravens with his Nevermore Gun and hurls lethal hearts with his Tell-Tale Heart Attack. The Kandy Kingdom attacks include Sprinkle Punches, Lobbed Lollipops, Bubblegum Bubble-Pops, Peppermint air-strikes and Glazed and Confused, King Kandyheart's donut scepter attack. The Best Forgotten Island attacks with Bad Breath, Horn Blasts, Laval Lobs, Boulder Kicks, Sumo Slaps, and Rocket Propelled Bananas. They are a little uncivilized. Also check out the HD version on iPad! OUR ENTERTAINMENT IS OPTIMIZED FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION jovianminds.com and troubleintintown.com facebook.com/JovianMinds twitter.com/jovianminds
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A Wizards show is an event that combines aspects of big time productions with hometown community flair.
Groups such as PTOs, PTAs, Booster Clubs, Project Graduation, All Classes, Key Clubs, Rotary and Lion's Clubs as well as numerous other charities and non-profit groups use the Wizards to raise funds and delight their community.
Basketball aficionados are treated to great skills, teamwork, slick dribbling, alley-oops and crazy slams. The non-hoop fans attending will find out that this is much more than just a basketball game. The night is funny, theatrical, exciting and spectacular and the gym will reverberate with oohs & aahs, laughter, enthusiasm, and much much more.
Typically, communities that "discover" the Wizards bring the team back year after year. Discover the awe-inspiring Harlem Wizards basketball show. Contact us now for more details, or read the frequently asked questions below.
- Typical profit is between $4000 and $20,000. The high amount earned last season by one group was $33,000
- Up to 55% on ticket sales!
- 20 or 25% on Wizard Souvenirs
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Rate varies depending on the day of the week and time of the year. We have three different pricing options based on the level of risk that you are comfortable with. Some dates can be booked with as little as $400 upfront. To get the full pricing picture and to qualify your request/plan/idea, please fill out the contact form and our area sales representative will contact you.
Weekends are more expensive, and certain times of the year cost more than others. We have three pricing options, from low risk to fully guaranteed. After working with schools and non-profits for 53+ years we have developed a pricing structure such that any qualified situation(*see below for more details) can have a highly successful event.
We custom create ticket prices for each event, in coordination with you. Typically general admission tickets are $10-$15 and premium tickets are usually $18 – $40.
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- An enthusiastic home team excited to play in front of the home crowd. Typically teachers, principals, mayors and other community notables take on the Wizards (20-25 players is recommended).
- 4-5 advance Volunteers to be responsible for planning, ticket sales, marketing, game day logistics and volunteers and home team lineup. For game night about 25 volunteers + your team are typical.
- Support from all or most or all schools in the district to help market this community event. This includes teachers and principals lacing up, sending home and emailing flyers and FREE assembly programs (read more about the Secret Sauce next!)
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Wizard Player School Visits – A major key for promotion of your event. Our players do 20-minute assemblies; the goal is to have the Wizard(s) see all elementary and middle students in your district/area.
The first choices are 20 minute fun, interactive assembly programs. The second choices are short, but thrilling lunchroom appearances.
Combine that with a home team roster of enthusiastic teachers from most or all schools and you can expect a great crowd and a slamtastic and wildly successful event!
Our event sales and support team assigned to partner with you in creating a successful event always has at least one former Wizard host who has been in the trenches before and was so successful and loved it so much that they now represent us.
We also provide you with a digital marketing kit, plus high quality video, PA announcements, 1,000 custom printed tickets, an online ticketing program, 75 posters, good morning announcements, sample flyers and e-mails and more!
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From the time the Wizards step onto the court to themed music, with our own MC, and sound system pumping, and the players delivering a choreographed trick and slam routine, the gym is rocking! The game features tricks, dunks, humor, and audience interaction. An awe-inspiring, two-hour basketball show (inclusive of autograph session)!
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Choosing just funky. help please
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Sneaker Con went down south for the weekend, once again taking up residence in the city of Atlanta. The local community of footwear fanatics certainly responded, coming out in huge numbers to buy, sell, and trade their wares. There was also a notable celeb sighting on the day, as notable newcomer rapper Trinidad James came through to do a little bit of shopping. Continue reading to get the complete gallery from the show floor, including the advance pair of Ewing Focus retros on feet for the aforementioned Mr. James, and stay tuned for the always juicy on-feet recap later on today.
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Can anybody tell how to order these shoes on the internet?
Choosing just funky. help please
those weatherman foams are hideous....
who is the guy under the pic of trinidad james on page 1?? should i know him bc he comes in my store all the time LOL
dont expect to sell any shoes there every body was broke. everybody was trying too sell. and prices were crazy. smbdy wanted 300 for pair of used bordo 7s lol
Bunch of hype, ridiculous
I've never seen such sloppy handling of shoes. I don't want to buy your shoes after you have breathed on them for two months. No one in these pics looks like they ever played an ounce of ball.
Everything wrong with the "game" under one roof.
The Con was dope, and don't hate cause it ain't you and what do you do at any Con event whether its Comic con, Dragon con, Sneaker con etc, BUY, SELL AND TRADE.....fuckin idiot.
The last sneaker con we had here in Miami was out of hand ,at least 1000plus people in line ahead of me and the place was already full inside.i walked right back to the car.The sock dude has a spot in the Pembroke Lakes mall if y'all are looking and are in south fl.
I like the socks table and I bet you guys are going to jump on the weathermans
Middle aged white guy in galdiator sandals on page 6 (pics 3 & 5) says it all.
Is that Trinidad James on the first page ...?
thought sneaker cons were cool at first, im looking at the crowd; they're all resellers!! shame.
Damnnn... I need to hit up a Sneakercon if they ever come anywhere close to Portland
What colorway for the AJ5's is that on page 7?
Them socks on page 4 are HOT!
I wish Sneakercon world come to my city...
@RichieLeBron Yeah the socks are tuff can not find them out here in the NYC
@RichieLeBron That isnt far from me. Good look!
Im debating on going to SneakerCon Miami next weekend
@Lusinmader LOL....Dude looks like he was selling his son's kicks
Oh wait it is, I should read more lol
Yea, sneakercons have turned into a convention fa resellers nowadayz... I like shoe•topia myself... Ain't no tellin wat da Snearkercon out here in NYC is gonna b like tho bro
@Sole_2_Sole not even just that. These folks look lame as hell. I'm so glad I didn't go lol. But I coulda came up on a collection Penny's tho.
I think there is a website, if I find the business card in this messy ass car I will reply with it.
After what I saw last time. It may not even be worth the hassle unless you get there extra early and you still won't be able to walk around in peace cause its soo packed. They need to change venues and maybe try doing it at the stadium or marlins park. Its a lot a lot of people showing up for these events.
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Thats what I read. You guys going?
@RichieLeBron Sneaker Con Miami is now inside on the court where the University of Miami Hurricanes play, huge space and more than enough room for everyone so dont be fooled.
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