etix's weblog » geek http://blog.l0cal.com FLOSS developer Sat, 20 Feb 2010 23:42:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Create an ebook using images on GNU/Linuxhttp://blog.l0cal.com/2009/07/12/create-an-ebook-using-images-on-gnu-linux/ http://blog.l0cal.com/2009/07/12/create-an-ebook-using-images-on-gnu-linux/#comments Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:40:06 +0000 etix http://blog.l0cal.com/?p=29 Today, my girlfriend had to create an Ebook (in pdf) using some images acquired from a scanner (using xsane). After searching a while on google how to do that I remembered that ImageMagick was the tool to manipulate images, so I gave it a try. Luckily (for me) it worked!

After this brief introduction, it’s time to share the two-steps solution with you.

Acquire the documents

The first step is to scan all of your documents using xsane. For a good quality use a DPI of 200 or more. You should name them accordingly to the order of inclusion. For example: 0001.png, 0002.png, …

Create the PDF

Now in a console, use this simple command to generate the ebook.

convert -define pdf:use-trimbox=true -compress jpeg -quality 95% *.png ebook.pdf

Remember that it can take some time if you have many pages.

That’s all folks !

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VLC Media Player

After more than a year of work, the VideoLAN community is proud to announce that VLC 1.0.0 is finally out !

This release has been delayed many times since February (the original release date chosen during the VideoLAN dev’days 2008) but reached its goal today. More stable, tons of new features, this release is definitely the best and most advanced release of VLC.

Take a look at the impressive changelog, and give it a try !

A list of the most *bling* *bling* enhancements since 0.9.9:

  • Increased stability
  • Reduced memory usage
  • Live recording
  • Instant pausing and Frame-by-Frame support
  • New HD codecs (AES3, Dolby Digital Plus, TrueHD, Blu-Ray Linear PCM, Real Video 3.0 and 4.0, …)
  • New formats (Raw Dirac, M2TS, …) and majors improvements in many formats…
  • New Dirac encoder and MP3 fixed-point encoder
  • Video scaling in full-screen
  • RTSP Trickplay support
  • Zipped file playback
  • Customizable toolbars
  • Easier encoding GUI in Qt interface
  • Better integration in GTK environments
  • MTP devices on Linux
  • Air Tunes streaming
  • And much more…

Download it now !

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As you can imagine this is not really my first blog post ever. As every geek on this planet I already owned thousands of (unmaintained) blogs before. This is just one more :-D

Now it’s maybe time to briefly introduce myself to my fellow readers !
I’m Ludovic, a 24 years old guy living in Paris with his girlfriend and a cat (yes, that matters). I’m a free software activist and developer, taking part in some small and medium-sized projects; but this will be the subject of an upcoming post. Last but not least, I’m also a KDE and VIM user (FTW) !

kthxbye.

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