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Re: Big glossy knitting book - published under RISC OS!

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In message <5235207339tim@invalid.org.uk>
          Tim Hill <tim@invalid.org.uk> wrote:

> In article <ja8me3$8g2$1@dont-email.me>,
>    druck <news@druck.org.uk> wrote:
>> On 17/11/2011 19:03, Gav Crawford wrote:
>>> [ "A Stitch in Time" book ]
>>>
>>> Yes, my wife and I produced this book. This latest title, along with
>>> others we've published was created on RISC OS using Ovation Pro and a
>>> host of other programmes. I've been using RISC OS for many years and
>>> use it for all my publishing work - I wouldn't want to use anything
>>> else!

>> Well done! It's great to see RISC OS still being used for commercial
>> purposes.

> Makes me wonder how many are using RISC OS to maintain commercial web
> sites, as I do, though I have to resort to the Dark Side to build PayPal
> buttons and to (also) display in browsers what I edit in StrongED. I have
> never found a way to work productively in Windoze thanks to its 'only
> edit on the top', cluttered window furniture, and 'full size means full
> screen' nonsense. I could get used to it if I had to but..

As well as the books that we publish, I also use RISC OS to develop 
and maintain our commercial website www.knitonthenet.com
Although the intended target audience are not RISC OS users, as it 
does use some JavaScript and CSS that probably won't render well in RO 
browsers.

The site is developed in StrongED. The local copy of the site is held 
on my Iyonix, and as I'm coding the php I test it by serving the site 
across the network using Webjames and view the results in Firefox on a 
Windows machine and in Ubuntu. When everything is ready to go live I 
use !SiteMatch to upload the changed files.

There is also a facility on the site to create customised knitting 
graphpaper charts as PDFs (www.knitonthenet.com/designchart/) which 
are created dynamically on the fly. This is done on a RiscPC, again 
using webjames to serve the created PDF.

-- 
Gav

 

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Big glossy knitting book - published under RISC OS! Harriet Bazley <bazley@feathermail.co.uk> - 2011-11-16 14:06 +0000
  Re: Big glossy knitting book - published under RISC OS! Chris Hughes <news@noonehere.co.uk> - 2011-11-16 18:26 +0000
    Re: Big glossy knitting book - published under RISC OS! Harriet Bazley <bazley@feathermail.co.uk> - 2011-11-17 13:05 +0000
  Re: Big glossy knitting book - published under RISC OS! Gav Crawford<gc@dentrassis.com> - 2011-11-17 19:03 +0000
    Re: Big glossy knitting book - published under RISC OS! druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2011-11-19 16:44 +0000
      Re: Big glossy knitting book - published under RISC OS! Tim Hill <tim@invalid.org.uk> - 2011-11-20 13:59 +0000
        Re: Big glossy knitting book - published under RISC OS! Jess <phantasm_39@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-20 15:32 +0000
          Re: Big glossy knitting book - published under RISC OS! Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-11-20 17:52 +0100
            Re: Big glossy knitting book - published under RISC OS! Dave Wisnia at home <david@wisnia.net> - 2011-11-20 18:35 +0000
            Re: Big glossy knitting book - published under RISC OS! Jess <phantasm_39@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-20 19:42 +0000
        Re: Big glossy knitting book - published under RISC OS! Gav Crawford <gc@dentrassis.com> - 2011-11-20 17:40 +0000
          Re: Big glossy knitting book - published under RISC OS! Harriet Bazley <bazley@feathermail.co.uk> - 2011-11-22 00:08 +0000
      Re: Big glossy knitting book - published under RISC OS! Gav Crawford <gc@dentrassis.com> - 2011-11-20 17:13 +0000
  Re: Big glossy knitting book - published under RISC OS! castlevarich <castlevarich@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-11-22 08:25 -0800

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