Re: Remove a watermark from a PDF
On Mon 16 Feb 2009 17:04:41 NZDT +1300, Stephen Irons wrote: [...] Looks like most PDF editors are, let's say, not quite there yet. Use pdfimages (of xpdf) to extract all images. Check the watermark is a bitmap graphics. If so, there's probably only one copy in the PDF, which you could turn into all-transparent with a hex editor. Use pdftk or whatever to remove the encryption. It's just a PITA anyway. You may have to doctor some FOSS to do that. Use pdftops, hope it's easier to doctor in the postscript. Try loading it into OO with pdfimport (search OO extensions). Remove background image (OO supports no other watermarks), reassemble PDF from OO. Give feedback to the manufacturer of said second-hand device, featuring the word morons or some such prominently. Buy other device next time. Put up with the annoying printout, or use the non-dead-tree variety instead. HTH, Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
Re: Adventures in netbook distros continued.
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Craig Falconer wrote: Steve Holdoway wrote, On 17/02/09 11:17: But those maps are old now and need to be redone. They are. To give you an idea of how old, it is Lancaster Park, not Jade Stadium, ooops, AMI Stadium.. http://www.openstreetmap.org/ open streetmap can be congratulated, it sortof works on my linux browser.. Derek. -- Derek Smithies Ph.D. IndraNet Technologies Ltd. Email: de...@indranet.co.nz ph +64 3 365 6485 Web: http://www.indranet-technologies.com/
Re: Adventures in netbook distros continued.
Steve Holdoway wrote, On 17/02/09 11:17: On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 11:05:06 +1300 Craig Falconer wrote: My killer app at the moment is tangoGPS, which works brilliantly. The main pain at the moment is suspend/low power mode when I shut the lid... You're not back wardriving again are you... (: Erm - no? Actually... watch this space for what I'm really (wheely) doing. But those maps are old now and need to be redone. Links: http://www.openstreetmap.org/ -- Craig Falconer
Re: Adventures in netbook distros continued.
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 11:05:06 +1300 Craig Falconer wrote: > My killer app at the moment is tangoGPS, which works brilliantly. > The main pain at the moment is suspend/low power mode when I shut the lid... You're not back wardriving again are you... (: Steve -- Steve Holdoway
Re: Adventures in netbook distros continued.
John Carter wrote, On 17/02/09 10:44: I'm in a Dark Place now and it's Good I've installed "#! Crunch Bang Linux" on the 901 EEE PC. Is that a serious distro or are you just being funny? Google tells me its real... http://crunchbanglinux.org/ I ended up going for traditional debian with the special installer, which worked well. It even dealt with installing across a wireless link with encryption. My killer app at the moment is tangoGPS, which works brilliantly. The main pain at the moment is suspend/low power mode when I shut the lid... -- Craig Falconer
Adventures in netbook distros continued.
I'm in a Dark Place now and it's Good I've installed "#! Crunch Bang Linux" on the 901 EEE PC. It's dark, everything is gray, grey or black. But like the ratpoison window manager, you don't have to bugger around with rat pads. Just little "House key"+alphabet key combos from a nifty little menu on the right of the screen. No colourful fat icons, just very serious, grey gray no brown. No emacs, but "sudo apt-get install emacs-snapshot" soon changed that. Just noticed something really really really CUTE about the EEE PC mousepad... It's multi-touch, (something I've been drooling about ever since I first saw that famous multitouch video). But it's not the two finger draw box that is so beautiful. It's the two finger scroll that just so _natural_. Use one finger, and the cursor moves. Use two fingers, and the page scrolls. Wow! I didn't even have to read about it in the docs, it just started happening and before I was consciously aware of what was happening, my fingers were using it! Talk about exceptionally good UI design! I'm really starting to like this likkle gadget. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : john.car...@tait.co.nz New Zealand
