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Someone here at work wanted to know how to add a three-page PDF to a Word document, and then add a dozen photos after it, and then save the whole mess as a new PDF. I suggested ImageMagick’s convert and pdftk. Combine all the images into one PDF: $ convert *.jpg photos.pdf Put the two [...]
[Keywords: concatenation, image manipulation, JPG, PDFs] [No comments] [Permanent link]
This morning I’m returning to work on some code that I haven’t touched for a few months, and I’ve been rather dreading getting back to it. I’ve forgotten all the details; never knew many of them anyway. I was working with someone else on this, and so have to get my head around their work [...]
[Keywords: documentation, Donald Knuth, javadoc, Literate Programming] [No comments] [Permanent link]
The news that Flickr Commons is full prompted me, yesterday afternoon, to cycle down to Cantonment Hill to get some photos to add to the hill’s Wikipedia article. Why? Because I added a short note to Wikinews the other day about the imminent return of the hill to the FCC; and because I was reminded [...]
[Keywords: Cantonment Hill, Commons, photography, Wikimedia] [No comments] [Permanent link]
