{"id":1066,"date":"2009-04-05T09:25:23","date_gmt":"2009-04-05T01:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/?p=1066"},"modified":"2009-04-05T09:25:23","modified_gmt":"2009-04-05T01:25:23","slug":"finally-finished-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2009\/04\/05\/finally-finished-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally finished report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finally finished the <a href=\"http:\/\/letsmakegames.org\/2009\/04\/04\/community-profile-report-available\/\">Perth Games Industry Community Profile<\/a> for <a href=\"http:\/\/letsmakegames.org\">Let&#8217;s Make Games<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>It was a lot more work than I expected, and it&#8217;s unfortunate that a lot of that was wrestling with software. Here&#8217;s a list of issues that I ran into:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I had to recreate charts because <a href=\"http:\/\/limesurvey.org\/\">Lime Survey<\/a> only generates them in .png format (so they aren&#8217;t scalable or suitable for printing). Generating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/Graphics\/SVG\/\">SVG<\/a> charts would be a nice feature.<\/li>\n<li>I created all art as plain coloured vector shapes since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inkscape.org\/\">Inkscape<\/a>&#8216;s export to pdf via <a href=\"http:\/\/cairographics.org\/\">cairo<\/a> doesn&#8217;t handle patterns or gradients well.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openoffice.org\/product\/writer.html\">Open Office Writer<\/a> makes it incredibly difficult to not put numbers on the opening pages, so some workaround were required.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want to give the impression that I&#8217;m ungrateful for the wealth of <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Free_and_open_source_software\">free software<\/a> that allowed me to conduct this survey and produce this report in the first place. I&#8217;m just being plain about shortcomings and areas for improvement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally finished the Perth Games Industry Community Profile for Let&#8217;s Make Games. It was a lot more work than I expected, and it&#8217;s unfortunate that a lot of that was wrestling with software. Here&#8217;s a list of issues that I ran into: I had to recreate charts because Lime Survey only generates them in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2009\/04\/05\/finally-finished-report\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Finally finished report&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paLsRH-hc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1066"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1068,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions\/1068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}