Florian Schmidt wrote: >On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 14:42:13 +0000 >Nigel Henry <cave.dnb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >>Hi Georg. Does that really work, or are we going into the realms of sheer >>fantasy (Twilight zone) . Nigel. aka mekon, farpoint, and many other sci-fi >>characters and places. >> >> >> > >well, it works only if you either > >a] have OSS drivers installed or > >b] have the ALSA OSS compat. module loaded.. > >Nonetheless, here's an alsa version: > >cat foo.pdf | aplay > >;) > >Have fun, >Flo > > > It's annoying that you can't make a joke with linux users. They've always an answer to show you that what you're joking about is not that ridicolous (rather it is indeed possible). But Peter wanted to generate sound from an image. So my question is: how can he use this software to accomplish this task if there's just the paper, and not yet the software? Wait a minute! I've got it: you must put the image in the pdf document. But where in the process should you use the pdf of the SoundPaint author? :-) c.