What does Muller Digital do?
Besides offering web-programming services and advice, one of the primary objectives of Muller Digital is to share technical information. We have set up this “bulletin board” to do just that. New information will be updated on a regular basis.

Convert PostScript Type 1,2 to TrueType font

November 16th, 2010

FontForge will allow you to save a font as .SFD, which will then allow you to save as a TTC format, which then can have the extension changed from TTC to TTF…yeah, I know…

In order to use some javascript based font rendering libraries, you tend to need to have the font which you wish to translate as a TTF (True Type Font) or OTF (Open Type Face) format. Problem is there are many other formats that exist. Font Forge is a prime tool for font manipulation.

Also great font resource: Open Font Library
And great javascript rendering font system: Typekit

IE6 change cursor to pointer or hand on any element

November 9th, 2010

IE6 only supports :hover on <a> elements. To change the cursor to a pointer or hand on hover of any non-anchor element, say a div:
In css

div {
cursor:hand;
cursor:pointer;
}

Do not add the pseudo state ‘:hover’, and it will work cross browser.

OS X, press the spacer-bar and see the file, via quick-look

October 19th, 2010

http://www.quicklookplugins.com/ shows some of the possibilities of a feature in OS X called “quick look”. Which enables the user to see the file; text, image, audio or video. This feature also shows how some systems will interpenetrate files in the future and allows us to control a file format by it’s literal existence on our future flash-memory-based file system.

Sound after command in terminal has finished

October 6th, 2010

Add ” && say Finished “(ignore the quotes) after any command in OSX terminal and you will hear a voice say “finished” when the command has finished executing.
So a command like:

sudo find / -name hosts* && say “hosts files search complete”

Would alert you when the find command has finished searching for hosts files. This is a helpful trick when you don’t want to keep checking back at an executing command to see if it’s finished, or end-up forgetting you have one running.

Coda – Error code 37 – “Host Key Changed for…”

July 6th, 2010

Coda error code 37 is caused when a site’s ip address changes. This causes the SSH keys to no longer valid. It can be fixed by connecting via SSH with Terminal, inside Coda, and reading the response. The response will tell you what line needs to be deleted in the known_hosts file. The known_hosts file is located /Users/user_name/.ssh/known_hosts