Looks like I need to start developing that again...
]]>The imagemagick way just converts it to a series of images and flips them.
]]>igfip wrote:For those having trouble reading the magazine, this is what I did since the PDF
reader I use doesn't have a horizontal flip option. I converted the individual
pages to ppm files with:
for i in $(seq 1 8); do pdftoppm -f $i -l $i ALM-2010-Apr-1.pdf foo; done
Then I read the files using xv (any image viewer will do) after flipping them with 'h'.Anyway, the last bit about Multixrulz lugging computers around Australia
for 17 months has the sense of an April Fool about it.Actually the part about Multixrulz was sent in for last month's magazine, but given what I did last month I didn't feel like including a deskshots feature... as such, I suspect it's legit... he didn't know it was gonna be in the April issue!
Hahaha, I did expect that everyone would think my deskshot was the April Fools joke, but it's not. Problem was I couldn't find a new laptop I was willing to buy at the time, so along came the desktop! Just as well, since I needed a new 500G hard drive to cope with all the video we've shot.
]]>For those having trouble reading the magazine, this is what I did since the PDF
reader I use doesn't have a horizontal flip option. I converted the individual
pages to ppm files with:
for i in $(seq 1 8); do pdftoppm -f $i -l $i ALM-2010-Apr-1.pdf foo; done
Then I read the files using xv (any image viewer will do) after flipping them with 'h'.Anyway, the last bit about Multixrulz lugging computers around Australia
for 17 months has the sense of an April Fool about it.
Actually the part about Multixrulz was sent in for last month's magazine, but given what I did last month I didn't feel like including a deskshots feature... as such, I suspect it's legit... he didn't know it was gonna be in the April issue!
]]>For those having trouble reading the magazine, this is what I did since the PDF
reader I use doesn't have a horizontal flip option. I converted the individual
pages to ppm files with:
for i in $(seq 1 8); do pdftoppm -f $i -l $i ALM-2010-Apr-1.pdf foo; done
Then I read the files using xv (any image viewer will do) after flipping them with 'h'.Anyway, the last bit about Multixrulz lugging computers around Australia
for 17 months has the sense of an April Fool about it.
Anyone tried it with Inkscape? It can open PDF pages.
Then type:
CTRL+A (select all)
H (flip horizontally)
Ohhh, man that's evil, been like an hour trying to get the pdf mirrored, really evil of you.
I tried the imagemagick trick from above but that left the pdf in a very bad shape, so don't....
hhuummm... >:
Try the easiest way, flip screen
xrandr --output VGA --reflect x
Ohhh, man that's evil, been like an hour trying to get the pdf mirrored, really evil of you.
I tried the imagemagick trick from above but that left the pdf in a very bad shape, so don't....
hhuummm... >:
Try this:
$ convert -density 288 downloads/ALM-2010-Apr-1.pdf -flop alm-good.pdf
Hint taken from http://www.mail-archive.com/magick-user … 06021.html
It takes a while and generates a 60 MB pdf but it's readable
There's definitely a better way to do this..
Anyway, the last bit about Multixrulz lugging computers around Australia
for 17 months has the sense of an April Fool about it.
ccc1 wrote:someone had a similar idea :
http://www.kernel.org/These are exactly the reasons why I fail to take Linux (and it's community) completely seriously. You can't depend on anything or anyone. What would I have done if I was in a desperate need of some information on that site? Best case scenario would be minutes lost digging my way through that mess. Worst case would be hours trying to find another source. If kernel.org think of itself as unimportant enough to effectively close down for a day, just for the fun of it, why not close the site for good?
I too really, *really* hate april fools.
I think that you could simply click in "Normalize page" link (top righ) :-)
]]>someone had a similar idea :
http://www.kernel.org/
These are exactly the reasons why I fail to take Linux (and it's community) completely seriously. You can't depend on anything or anyone. What would I have done if I was in a desperate need of some information on that site? Best case scenario would be minutes lost digging my way through that mess. Worst case would be hours trying to find another source. If kernel.org think of itself as unimportant enough to effectively close down for a day, just for the fun of it, why not close the site for good?
I too really, *really* hate april fools.
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