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Check for Valid PDF on Linux Command Line

Just become a first time user of PDFgear and found it exiting with a .NET Runtime Event ID 1026 error when opening a PDF. The PDF I was trying to load and edit was generated by a web application that in turn generated PDF's using GLabels. So I needed a way to see if...

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PDFgear an Adobe PDF Pro Alternative

Adobe PDF Pro is getting close to $30AUD a month and at almost $350 per user / per year that is a big spend. The other problems is the constant nag to push you into the Adobe Cloud and then the continued account drain to have something available that you might only...

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Mailpit a good upgrade from Mailhog

So I've been using mailhog to catch my development emails for a few years. But noticed that some of the inline images weren't rendered in the mailhog GUI and the mailhog docker image hadn't been updated for a few years So I've switched to Mailpit which seems to have a...

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