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Thursday, December 22, 2011 3:39 PM

PdfGeneratedPage–Architectural Whys (and a Few Hows)

If you are creating new pages in a PDF document using DotPdf , you’re going to be using PdfGeneratedPage objects.  This is a very simple class in that it consists of really only 6 properties, 5 of which all deal with page dimensions in some way:
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Thursday, December 15, 2011 12:00 PM

DotPdf–Making Pages and Working with Coordinate Systems

Early on in designing DotPdf , I decided that all coordinates should be expressed in PDF units.  Why?  This imposes either none or the same hardship on everyone.  Whether you work with inches, millimeters, cubits or whatever the process
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Tuesday, December 06, 2011 3:20 PM

DotPdf–Generate PDF Documents from .NET

I’m very proud to announce the release of DotPdf , a new toolkit for .NET from Atalasoft.  This toolkit includes a new set of tools for generating your own PDF documents.  This is exciting for us as it is a new product that dovetails well with
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011 1:47 PM

Elegance or Practicality: Pick One

I’m going to start with a story, which is a true story, that turns out to be a useful metaphor for programming languages. When I was in college, Raymond Smullyan came to present a guest lecture on infinities.  It was an entertaining lecture. 
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Monday, August 01, 2011 1:35 PM

Building Pure Managed DotImage

We recently released DotImage 10 and if you’ve been following us for a while, you know that we are committed to building the best .NET imaging components.  Since I started at Atalasoft, I have been looking at the issue of making as much of our internals
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Friday, July 08, 2011 10:49 AM

Hey Mike Commodore, Please Do It!

Just saw this on Deadspin : Mike Commodore has just signed a contract with the Detroit Red Wings and is considering taking the number 64 for his Jersey. This is what it would look like (thanks to shop.nhl.com for making this so easy to do).  Mike
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Tuesday, June 21, 2011 10:06 AM

Are Experienced Developers Really Rarer than Inexperienced?

I saw this article wherein StackOverflow is used to correlate developer age with knowledge/ability as well as inversely correlating with quantity of developers.  Read the whole article – it’s interesting although I don’t agree with all his conclusions. 
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Thursday, May 12, 2011 8:55 AM

Q&A: Corporate Culture

Atalasofties talk about company culture at Atalasoft. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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Monday, April 18, 2011 2:54 PM

Q&A: What was your first computer?

Atalasoft employees talk about the first computer they had. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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Friday, March 25, 2011 9:52 AM

Estimating Tasks

This week, a lot of Atalasoft went to AIIM.  During such times, the office is quieter than usual and we, who have been left behind, try to do something to cheer up the atmosphere or to make those at the show jealous.  Even better if we can manage
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Monday, March 21, 2011 12:14 PM

Simple Tricks to Reduce PDF Size

Let’s talk about PDF for a moment.  PDF is designed to be a flexible file format.  It is also designed to be an imageable format without resolution.    It can be a collection of vector art, text, and images, but there is no inherent
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Monday, March 14, 2011 3:26 PM

Making Office Life Better One Bathroom at a Time

Christina , our head of the Ministry of Culture, had a complaint at lunchtime one day: nearing the end of her second trimester of pregnancy, she was getting more and more frustrated having to walk across the office only to find out that the bathroom was
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Friday, March 04, 2011 5:06 PM

Q & A: What’s the Best Thing About Your Job?

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Friday, February 18, 2011 4:55 PM

I Love Affine Transforms

It’s true.  I first discovered them when I was in 10th grade and trying to figure out how to rotate an object.  I was using the following fomulae: x’ = x cos(t) – y sin(t) y’ = x sin(t) + y cos(t) This is very close to an affine transform. 
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Wednesday, December 29, 2010 1:26 PM

A Tribute to Leslie Nielsen

In December, a number of small teams at Atalasoft met to undertake projects that would improve Atalasoft in some measurable way – whether it was internal to the company or external. With Elaine and Bill , we put together some ideas for shooting videos
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