A new education board
Submitted by mfn under student's life on 08.03.2011
But this time without Reclam again from Amazon.
Qtoctave 0.10.1 for Windows
Submitted by mfn under General , Development , Student's life , technology on 29/01/2011
Hi,
I've just finished the build for windows . Feel free to download it.
I recognized some problems on my Win XP machine and rebuild it. The link stays the same.
For the interested audience, I've uploaded my changes to the code .
Poppler-utils 0.15 for Windows binary
Submitted by mfn under Development , Open Source , Student's life , technology on 20/09/2010
I made a build of the poppler-utils-0.15 on Windows. I needed a newer version of pdftops, the one from the xpdf binaries which to old ...
The build works on my machine, I hope it does on others as well. Feel free to try it.
Optimize PDFs with Open Source
Submitted by mfn under Development , Open Source , Student's life , technology on 04/09/2010
Not everyone has an Adobe Acrobat Professional license and still less one has necessarily an operating system running on the Acrobat. That's why I've been looking for a way to optimize PDFs with Open Source software, so to reduce the file size by downsampling and compression of images.
And I'm found it. With the combination xpdf and ghostscript can be accomplished that.
I assembled a small script for Windows where you have to adjust only the paths:
set xpdf="X:\Path\to\xpdf"
set ghostscript="X:\Path\to\ghostscript\bin"
set suffix="_opt.pdf"
%xpdf%\pdftops.exe -paper match -level3 hsq.pdf tmp.ps
%ghostscript%\gswin32c.exe -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dPDFSETTINGS=/ebook -dColorConversionStrategy=/LeaveColorUnchanged -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sOutputFile=hsq.pdf%suffix% tmp.ps
del tmp.ps
The whole course is also under Linux / Mac if installed xpdf and ghostscript:
suffix="_opt.pdf"
pdftops -paper match -level3 hsq.pdf tmp.ps
gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dPDFSETTINGS=/ebook -dColorConversionStrategy=/LeaveColorUnchanged -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sOutputFile=hsq.pdf$suffix tmp.ps
rm tmp.ps
The more recent are the respective versions the better the result looks like. At least my experience.
Are referendums in Germany really make sense?
Submitted by mfn under student's life on 22/07/2010
Last night I looked again at random, the Munich-round. The theme was: referendums.
What surprised me was that even the critics have not even noticed the round until the final decisions were as unrepresentative of the people.
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