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Microsoft fonts outwith Windows

Geschreven door Marien op 29 november 201631 juli 2017.

To get out a word you need Word. That is how things usually work at most desktops around the globe. To be exact: Microsoft’s Word, not God’s. So, even if you happily work on LibreOffice, or another open-source office suite, you will come across Microsoft’s core fonts on a very regular basis. Of course all […]

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Strange characters

Geschreven door Marien op 25 augustus 201613 augustus 2019.

The other day I wrote about inserting special characters into text documents, advertising the use of KCharSelect for those happy users of the KDE desktop (or CharacterMap, its GNOME equivalent). Let me advertise it a bit further, because it has more in it than meets the – rashly looking – eye.

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LibreOffice startup tweaks

Geschreven door Marien op 23 augustus 201623 augustus 2016.

In the good old LibreOffice days, when versions 3.x or 4.x were all around, I used to have the Quickstarter icon in my system tray. Twas useful to quickly open a (new) document or start from a template. Alas! tis gone in version 5.x. However, there is a tweak to solve this.

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LibreOffice minor misfortunes

Geschreven door Marien op 11 augustus 201612 juni 2017.

No-one is perfect, not even the most widely used open-source office suite, LibreOffice. It does have its small annoyances. From not printing a simple dash, to making your whole KDE desktop crash. How to deal with it? The first problem was solved by upgrading, the second seems to be persistently neglected and hence no solution […]

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Upgrading to LinuxMint 17.3

Geschreven door Marien op 08 februari 201615 februari 2016.

Until a week ago I stuck to LinuxMint 13 based on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. That still is a well maintained distro. However, applications increasingly move on to more recent versions, which gradually caused conflicts and annoyances. Over a year ago I already had tried to upgrade to LinuxMint 17. But then I ran into trouble […]

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Updating LibreOffice

Geschreven door Marien op 23 december 201501 januari 2016.

Updating LibreOffice has its own pecularities. You can set it to automatic, but that may or may not work. Not on my LinuxMint system. You can make it warn you when updates are available, so you can manually download and install these. In my case: install the appropriate deb packages., which takes a wee bit […]

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PDF forms and Linux

Geschreven door Marien op 07 oktober 201507 februari 2018.

Buying or booking online may require filling in a PDF form and sending it back. But how to fill it in if you are not on Windows using Adobe software? Actually that is a problem, but there is a workaround. The PDF form specification is kept carefully hidden by Adobe. So there are no open-source […]

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Scanning documents

Geschreven door Marien op 19 april 201527 oktober 2015.

Slightly old-fashioned as it may seem, scanning documents still is part of the usual office jobs. You need it to email an official document to someone else, or simply to keep your own digital copy. So how to do that? As we know there must fifty ways to leave your lover – and probably more […]

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PDF to Image

Geschreven door Marien op 09 februari 201507 februari 2018.

Say you are working on a text document, e.g. in LibreOffice, and you would like to insert a PDF-document. Just inserting or importing it will not work. The easiest way to get a decent result is this: convert the PDF-document to an image file, e.g. PNG; insert that file as an image into your text […]

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PUB problems

Geschreven door Marien op 13 januari 201513 oktober 2016.

Someone sent me a MS Publisher file. That is a problem, even if you are on a Windows box. You need to have the correct version of Publisher installed, because there is no reliable compatibility between different versions. A classic M$ trick, I dare say. And besides, I am locked in to a Linux box, […]

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