PDF editing in linux is still somehow tricky nowadays. This post aims at putting together the currently available resources for manipulating (editing, highlighting, commenting, splitting and merging) PDF documents. We are all looking forward at GNUpdf project completing its major tasks in order to release a full featured GNU Juggler which will be a full-fledged PDF [...]

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OpenOffice Writer and compiz Desktop Effects + nVidia 3D driver nvidia has long been buggy in redrawing / refreshing the page when you edit or simply scroll it up and down.

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After my upgrade to Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 I’ve experienced a weird beahaviour of system-config-printer (which is the applet in System -> Administration -> Printing used to add printers and configure their default settings) consisting in the window stuck grey with 100% CPU usage and increasingly huge memory leak (>350Mb after 60 secs) (this is by [...]

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SMILE is a slideshow building program by Stephane Gibault, author of manDVD, and is the successor to manslide. Currently it’s not possible to use both manDVD and SMILE since they make use of different versions of sox tools. The successor of manDVD (called 2manDVD on which the Stephane is currently working on) will be compatible [...]

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* JFTP::mkdir: Bad response * JFTP::chmod: Bad response         * JFTP::store: Bad response         * Warning! Failed to move file.  Unable to find install package and error • JFolder::create: Could not create directory Warning: file_put_contents(path_here) [function.file-put-contents]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /libraries/joomla/filesystem/file.php on line 297 Unable to find install package This kind [...]

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