you're cute and knowledgeable - a great combination!
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Felmon Davis <dav...@union.edu> wrote: On Mon, 15 Apr 2013, anne-ology wrote: > > very interesting, yes indeed ;-) >> >> well, the more I read this list, 'the more I seem to learn, yet the >> stupider I feel' ;-) >> (the glorified typewriter has so surpassed me) >> >> I note you've used a 'new' word; acronymonious seems to fit well in >> this saga - >> yet I hope you didn't mis-type acrimonious ;-) >> (oh, surely not) >> > > I did not mistype. I went neologistic on you. > > F. > > >> >> >> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Felmon Davis <dav...@union.edu> wrote: >> >> On Mon, 15 Apr 2013, anne-ology wrote: >> >>> >>> yikes, sounds as if I need further information - >>> >>>> or need to keep studying ... ... ... ;-) >>>> >>>> >>> not sure how the further discussion would be relevant to you if you just >>> want to use the tool. the link I gave you explains the things pdftk can >>> do. >>> you can then decide if it might be useful. >>> >>> the next step is to determine if you find it convenient to use. >>> >>> of course, if you are also interested in how the tool is built, then >>> that's a different matter. >>> >>> >>> Please update re. this / these tks whenever; I'll stay tuned ;-) >>> >>>> >>>> Ah, acronyms ;-) >>>> tk := >>>> http://www.acronymfinder.com/****TK.html<http://www.acronymfinder.com/**TK.html> >>>> <http://www.**acronymfinder.com/TK.html<http://www.acronymfinder.com/TK.html> >>>> > >>>> >>>> (well, while waiting to understand all this, my mind tends to >>>> wander >>>> - puns are so much fun :-) ) >>>> >>>> >>> don't mean to be acronymonious about it but all disciplines and >>> occupations use abbreviations and have specialist dictionaries - >>> general-purpose dictionaries won't do. >>> >>> F. >>> >>> >>> >>>> >>>> On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Felmon Davis <dav...@union.edu> wrote: >>>> >>>> On Sun, 14 Apr 2013, Girvin Herr wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> Felmon, >>>>> >>>>> Looks like pdftk is written in Java. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/******Pdftk<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/****Pdftk> >>>>>> <https://en.**wikipedia.org/wiki/**Pdftk<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Pdftk> >>>>>> > >>>>>> <https://en.wikipedia.**org/**wiki/Pdftk<https://en.** >>>>>> wikipedia.org/wiki/Pdftk <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pdftk>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> So the gui (Graphical User Interface) is whatever the Java Runtime >>>>>> Environment (JRE) interfaces with. From my experience, it isn't >>>>>> pretty, >>>>>> but functional. >>>>>> >>>>>> I noticed there are some other source files and some 3rd-party code in >>>>>> the package that I did not take time to investigate, and it takes Gcc >>>>>> to >>>>>> build it. But one of the big ideas of Java is that it contains its >>>>>> own >>>>>> gui >>>>>> code, so the programmer's effort is greatly reduced. I would be >>>>>> surprised >>>>>> if pdftk does not use the standard Java gui. >>>>>> Girvin Herr >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> good to know, especially about the '3rd-party code'. >>>>> >>>>> makes sense the gui would be in java so it can run on various >>>>> platforms. >>>>> >>>>> I don't however foresee myself invoking the gui unless I'm working off >>>>> of >>>>> Windows or something. >>>>> >>>>> I'll look but I bet there's a command-line version for Windows too. >>>>> >>>>> F. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On 04/13/2013 11:24 PM, Felmon Davis wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> On Sat, 13 Apr 2013, Tom Davies wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> <snip> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> I'm only familiar with pdftk as a command-line tool; thus I was >>>>>> >>>>>>> confused >>>>>>> by the discussion of desktop environments. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> it does have a gui interface (or several?) and then there are the >>>>>>> Windows and Mac versions. I don't know what is used to make the gui >>>>>>> interface on Linux. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Felmon >>>>>>> >>>>>>> <snip> >>>>>>> >>>>>> > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
