>> alweer bijgewerkt op 24-02-2021 (zie de paragraaf onderaan) << Misschien doe je het niet zo vaak, of nog minder vaak, maar soms wil je een webpagina afdrukken. Of (sommige pagina’s uit) een PDF-document dat je in Firefox geopend hebt. Uiteraard kan dat. Maar Firefox kan nog meer dan je denkt. De webbrowser stuurt niet […]
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PDF editing revisited
In the past I have posted about PDF tools and handling PDF forms. On Linux you can do a lot without expensive proprietary software, but that may be a bit of a cumbersome job, also requiring commandline actions. Now I have come across a very nifty program which simply includes virtually all available tools in […]
PDF forms and Linux
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 […]
Scanning documents
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 […]
PDF to Image
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 […]
PUB problems
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, […]