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Archive: PDF

May 14, 2007

Cool new e-books from O'Reilly Verlag

The folks at oreilly.de have launched TecFeeds, the German equivalent of the English language Short Cuts. One thing they've done that I'd like to see more of is to optimize the PDFs for easy reading on screen. Even on my MacBook's 1280x800 screen, the TecFeeds are extremely readable.

Since we're always thinking about different ways for you to read our Hacks, I can't help but wonder what other folks think about this kind of presentation. If you have a chance to check out the sample on the TecFeeds site, post a comment and let us know what you think. Do you prefer PDF books that print in portrait on letter paper, or is this kind of 2-up landscape format (which looks good on screen and prints on A4 paper) appealing?

O'Reilly TecFeeds - Link

Posted by Brian Jepson | May 14, 2007 08:54 PM
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May 9, 2007

Turn your Linux box into a PDF-making machine

With a Linux box and the Common Unix Printing System (CUPS), you can set up a virtual print server that will output all of its jobs to PDF format. Why might this be useful? From the linux.com article:

When you buy stuff online, virtually every site provides a receipt, which you may want later if the order email is lost or if you need to send in a receipt for expense reports. However, you may not want to print all of them out just to keep them around, and Firefox only supports writing to PostScript, rather than PDF.

What's nice is that you can print to your PDF making device from any Windows, Linux or Mac desktop. This provides a mechanism for consolidating all of your receipts and digital paper assets into one place, which ought to come in handy as you pursue the goal of having a paperless office.

Links:

• Turn your Linux box into a PDF-making machine - linux.com
• Common Unix Printing System (CUPS)
• CUPS-PDF: A PDF output driver for CUPS

Posted by Jason Striegel | May 9, 2007 06:45 PM
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April 11, 2007

Import and Edit PDFs

The Ubuntu Blog shows off one of the neat tricks that KWord has up its sleeve. You can use it to import PDFs, and they retain a lot of their formatting. Once you've got it into KWord, you can work with it there, or export it into your favorite word processor's format. I imported the nearly 300 page Make Projects: Small Form Factor PCs book, and it didn't complain. - Link

Related:

• KOffice - Link
  
• Native KDE/KOffice for Mac - Link
  
• Ubuntu Hacks - Link
  

Posted by Brian Jepson | Apr 11, 2007 07:12 AM
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