Things I’ve learned today

• LaTeX can be quite picky about umlauts, even if you set inputenc to utf8. Labels don’t treat umlauts correctly and so pdflatex will give you some strange error message.
• LaTeX again. Underscores within your text are also a bit of a problem, but there’s a package you can use (underscore)
• You cannot save transparent gif images with .NET easily (meaning: Bitmap.Save(someStream, ImageFormat.bmp)).
• GDI+ will give you strange error messages wherever it can. Saving a png image to an output stream is such a thing. You need to save it to a memory stream first and then save the memory stream to the output stream. That’s because the png must be seek-able, which is not the case for the bitmap class.
• TextMate is awesome. For real.
• Transparent pngs work surprisingly well in IE7.
• SVG support in Firefox is great, but sucks for Internet Explorer (you need a plugin from Adobe which you cannot install without administrator privileges).

Seems like I had a busy day.