1 year ago I made an important document using a 30 days trial of a #proprietary#software. Today I had to update the document. I could have bought the proprietary software for 75€, but instead I’ve tested #Inkscape for the first time in my life. Inkscape has ingested a #PDF version of my original document and allowed me to update it. Bonus, the exported PDF size is only a tenth of what the other software produced.
So I’ve just donated 75$ to Inkscape via Software Freedom Conservancy. #FOSS
#LibreOffice
Thank you for #Draw it has allowed me to fill out #pdf documents and forms that normally do not allow editing! Great for my horrible hand writing!
A number of formats, including #EPUB, #ODT, #docx, and #PDF (via #TeXLaTeX, #Typst, ...) include the document's build time. This can be an issue for reproducible builds. Set the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable to an integer value¹ to use a fixed time instead.
SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH=682984800 pandoc …
¹ Seconds in the Unix epoch. Get the current epoch time with date +%s.
Is #firefox really the best way to sign a #pdf document on #linux with a touchscreen? I somehow cannot believe that even after trying 5 different programs...
Perhaps you have a selection of images that you would like to convert into a single PDF. In DEVONthink, there is a simple tool that does just that. Here is, how it works. #devonthink#pkm#pdfhttps://buff.ly/3wIfQJc
If anybody wants to stop Firefox from opening PDF's in the browser, I honestly don't get why browsers try to even render PDFs anyway, change this value to true. pdfjs.disabled. Change pdfjs.disabled to true. #PDF#WebDev
Not surprised by the new security vulnerability in Mozilla's PDF.js - patched in latest Firefox. But remind me again why browsers try to render PDFs to begin with?
Displaying PDFs in browsers opens a huge new attack surface. PDFs are complex. Browsers render PDF forms poorly and offer only a limited subset of the many accessibility features provided by dedicated PDF software.
PDF, the Portable Document Format, is currently the most important exchange format for finalised documents. This article only scratches the surface of the many PDF export features in #CollaboraOnline. The export options include additional settings for accessibility checking, links, and security.
When I click on a link to a PDF, Firefox does one of three things:
a)Display the PDF in-browser, without saving it to a permanent location on my computer.
b)Open a dialogue window asking me where I want to save the PDF.
c)Download and save it in my "Downloads" folder without asking me, and then display it in-browser.
It seems to pick one of these three behaviors at random. I can't discern any pattern.
The thing is, I never ever ever ever ever want it to do (c). If I'm saving a single file on my computer I always want to select the folder manually.
In about:preferences, I scroll down to "Applications," and see I have set PDFs to "always ask." But it doesn't always ask! I've also tried changing the setting to "Open in Firefox", and I get the same result: sometimes it opens in Firefox without saving, sometimes it saves it to my downloads and then opens in Firefox, and sometimes it asks.
What's going on? Why does it switch seemingly at random between these three behaviors regardless of my setting? How do I get it to stop saving things to my Downloads folder without asking?
EDIT: Oh whoops, I forgot to put my system information.
Linux Mint Cinnamon 21.1
Firefox Flatpak (currently 126, but it's been happening the same way for a long time).
This VBA macro saves an Excel worksheet as a PDF. It sets and sorts the data, creates a temporary sheet with headers, formats and aligns the data, and adjusts column widths. The macro defines the PDF path, deletes any existing file, sets page orientation and footer, exports the sheet to PDF, deletes the temporary sheet, and shows a message with the PDF path. Modify to your needs if you find it useful.