Ghostscript is the open source command-line access to everything postscript and PDF. Because ghostscript can do nearly everything with these files, however, it is not the easiest to use. The options can and are overwhelming to casual users who may
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A fix for the DropBox file system warning
Because I have an encrypted home folder on an ext4 formatted volume, Dropbox stopped working.
Luckily, Alan Pope has a solution at his popey blog.
He essentially has created a shell script for you to download and run (after…
Fix for ImageMagick convert errors with pdf files
All of a sudden on 18.04 of Xubuntu, my ability to convert image files to PDF has stopped working.
Normally, I could do the following at the terminal:
$ convert image*.jpg NEW.pdf
to convert a series of image files into…
Encryption on the go
VeraCrypt has replaced TrueCrypt as the all-around, essential encryption software everyone should be using.
For instance, any password info for your computer, financial info (account and social security numbers), personal/private encryption keys, and pics of essential documents can be kept…
Review: Galago Pro from System 76 and Xubuntu 18.04 — Bionic Beaver
Unix systems have been around for more than half a century. But, with Linux and Mac OS X, Unix systems have now achieved wide-spread success. Mac OS X is extremely well designed, but Apple does not play well when you…
Using InSync for google drive files
Google provides inexpensive cloud storage — google drive — but does not provide a native Linux client for mirroring those cloud files on the local computer.
Into this gap strolls insync, a Mac, Wintel, and Linux client for connecting…
DropBox and Xubuntu
Xubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver) released
A new long-term support release of Xubuntu is out, and I have upgraded to it on my desktop. Make sure to check out the Xubuntu release notes as well as the general Ubuntu release notes before upgrading yourself.
The new…