David van Driessche

Proud geek. Fascinated by SpaceX, Tesla, EV, Apple, penguins, PDF, callas, xkcd...

Owner of Publigence, CTO at Four Pees, Executive Director of the GWG

[David van Driessche @Penguinerish]

@doraTeX That is coming. The delay is caused by some of the libraries pdfToolbox depends on (including the Adobe PDF library).

[David van Driessche @Penguinerish]

@kmuto 以前は499ユーロでしたが、現在は500ユーロになっています (hoping that deepl did the translation to Japanese correctly :))

[David van Driessche @Penguinerish]

The Sign & Display library v4 for #pdfToolbox v11, presented at the @pixeltechfr automation & workflow day in Lyon.

#automation @callassoftware @cedricsintes #pdf #lfp

[David van Driessche @Penguinerish]

When you realise that in order to write a good conversion script from one XML format to another...

you need to make the same spelling mistake the original developer made...

#myOCDisoffended 🤦‍♂️😱

[David van Driessche @Penguinerish]

N'oubliez-pas, demain, à Lyon!

https://t.co/xaARmLvDXo

[David van Driessche @Penguinerish]

Want to join us to work on pdfToolbox (or PDF) related challenges you face in your job?

A PDF Camp provides plenty of opportunity to dig into the more technical features of #pdfToolbox with a bunch of people who know #pdf as no others!

@callassoftware

https://t.co/YdMXogFyVB

[David van Driessche @Penguinerish]

I would have gone for "Jerry" (Tom being the first press), but that choice probably shows my age...

[David van Driessche @Penguinerish]

It's all good and fun until the final answer is Printer McPrint-face.

On second thought, they're asking kids - not adults. They might actually come up with a good name :)

#namethatpress #coolwaytoinvolvethecommunity

https://t.co/aGSTJ4WyR6

[David van Driessche @Penguinerish]

One day, you'll find just the wine for you (or for me, in this case)...

🐧🐧🐧

[David van Driessche @Penguinerish]

Who doesn't want to know more about transparency? Don't miss this webinar from @GhentWorkgroup!

#pdf #prepress #graphicarts #transparency

[GhentWorkgroup @GhentWorkgroup]

New webinar announced about PDF transparency on March 26 at 4pm. This webinar will be presented by Andrew Bailes-Collins and intends to help designers better understand native transparency and the use of best practices to avoid common print problems. https://t.co/JJZtLlYg1j

[David van Driessche @Penguinerish]

Surprise, surprise, I'm on stage showing a penguin :)

[David van Driessche @Penguinerish]

Sign up before it's sold out :)

PDF Camp is a way to meet people from @fourpees and @callassoftware. And it's not about presentations, but about your topics and questions.

Go back to your company with practical solutions!

#pdf #hackaton

https://t.co/DaZL3bVuPB

[David van Driessche @Penguinerish]

The only way for spam email to live longer in my inbox than half a second...

... is for them to have penguins in them.

🐧

#penguin #penguinsarethebest

[David van Driessche @Penguinerish]

We live in an age where Google knows everything. Unfortunately, fewer and fewer people know how to ask intelligent questions.

See also: "the total IQ level of the planet is a constant - the population is rising".

https://t.co/LoFgx6b1Ux

[David van Driessche @Penguinerish]

Without Great Expectations
by The Artist formerly known as Charles Dickens

#AddAWordRuinABook

[David van Driessche @Penguinerish]

Sometimes inspirational messages can be very ... practical :)

#tmi #motivation

[David van Driessche @Penguinerish]

About the new process editor in pdfaPilot (as also in pdfToolbox)...

#pdfa #pdf #automation #archival #accessibility

[Sabine Slaughter @SASlaugh]

pdfaPilot 9 leads the way to automation @g_printmonitor #print #printing #workflow #labels #packaging #largeformat @saslaugh @callassoftware https://t.co/W5dBp4IcDK

[David van Driessche @Penguinerish]

One can argue whether comics that make you work a bit to appreciate them are good or evil :)

But this one I liked - I might have to use something similar at some point :D

#comics #toomanyemoji #sadlytoofewpenguins

[XKCD Comic @xkcdComic]

Reaction Maps https://t.co/5KoytsFoLw https://t.co/TK4MoOUYTt

[David van Driessche @Penguinerish]

Did you miss the #webinar on the new pdfToolbox 11 from @callassoftware?

Don't miss out on all the new capabilities, have a look now!
https://t.co/2XJmZ2tZDU

[David van Driessche @Penguinerish]

The difficult part with iPhone often is finding the really good apps for it (because there are so many choices!).

Found Parcel to track deliveries and avoid the horrible websites / tracking tools from the delivery companies :)

@parcel_app

https://t.co/a6uHaz8RJM