What I want to do: Print an A6 PDF centred on an A4 page from the command line on Linux What I tried: Tried to use evince and Firefox but they have no command line print options for linux. What worked: Calculate the margins and run lp or lpr by doing the following...
Saw a post that says you need to put a ! to run a shell command in the MySQL but found in my mysql client that it was \! <shell-command-here> https://electrictoolbox.com/shell-commands-mysql-command-line-client/ To drop to a shell. use \! bash To return to the the...
Start with a wide long image. This is just a screen shot of my desktop. widescreen.png Convert it to postscript using convert from ImageMagick # install ImageMagick sudo dnf install ImageMagick convert widescreen.png widescreen.ps Use poster to chop and format the...
Just using Scribus to design and print some lapel cards Regarding Scribus - It seems that the stable version will not run or install easily on Fedora 32 so I have had to make do with the Scribus Version 1.5.6.svn Beta. So after getting around the flakey behavior of...
I have a cups-pdf printer that takes the output from glabels-3-batch # Using glabels-3-batch results in a PDF you can select and copy the text from cat merge.csv | glabels-3-batch -i - -o out.pdf 100x50sample.glabels The PDF file which glabels-3-batch creates can be...
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https://youtu.be/duqBHik7nRo Just putting this here for later. A git talk that covers everything that I wonder about with git. Also the speaker has a book which going by her previous courses will be excellent.
Just putting this here as I have a SELECT in MySQL that was taking 1.946 sec to return 20 records from a table with 159884 records when using a ORDER BY DESC on a DATETIME field Creating an index and changing the FROM to FORCE INDEX () dropped it down to 0.00079 sec /...
So here is the link so I don't forget it https://getcomposer.org/doc/05-repositories.md#vcs Add your repo's URL into your composer.json in the repositories key and change the version on the original repo name to your dev-* version where * is a branch of your github...
My setup is My home network is IPv6 enabled. I have an AAAA record specifying the IPv6 address of the Amazon EC2 instances Elastic IP <IPv6 enabled home network> | <internet> | <Dockerized Postgres on EC2 Instance> Getting this error message when attempting...