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Introduction to Docutils

By Ollie Rutherfurd | 2004-10-06
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Introduction
Docutils is a set of tools for translating documents written in plain text into other formats, such as HTML, XML, and LaTeX. Docutils documents are authored using reStructuredText (reST), an easy-to-read (and easy-to-write) plain-text markup, and a set of tools to perform translations.
In this article, the first of two on […]

docutils links

http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/user/rst/quickref.html
To install reStructuredText, install docutils:
$ easy_install docutils
You will get a set of scripts starting with rst2, to be able to render reST in
various formats.

http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5 […]

OOo Developers Guide

OOo Developers Guide (mostly Java): http://api.openoffice.org/DevelopersGuide/DevelopersGuide.html
VBA to StarBasic Cross Reference and VBA to StarBasic Cross Reference Example Files http://documentation.openoffice.org/HOW_TO/ (Scroll down to Miscellaneous)
StarOffice Basic/OOo Basic: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-1826?q=StarOffice
OpenOffice.org for Developers http://development.openoffice.org/index.html

online grammer en, ru, dutch…

http://community.languagetool.org/
LanguageTool uses rules to detect errors. Each rule represents one or more potential errors in the text to check. Have a look and configure all rules of all languages here.
http://translate.google.com/translate_t?hl=nl
Translate text or webpage

Getting Started With ReportLab Tutorial

The ReportLab software provides a very useful route to creating PDF documents and reports from within Python in a nice platform independent fashion. It provides a basic ‘canvas’ interface for rendering directly to the document, and a more useful basic layout system called PLATYPUS. I guess they’ve already got their eyes on an O’Reilly animal. […]

swf screencast with audio linux

- create swf file with x11vnc and vnc2swf
x11vnc
in other shell
vnc2swf
- create a comment of your video in sound recorder like audacity or other ( i use standard ubuntu audio recorder).
Start first your movie and then audio recording to keep it synchronous. Save it as wav.
- convert wav to mp3 […]

record a video of your sleek desktop linux

Have you ever wanted to record a video of your sleek desktop, with customized icons, taskbar and such? Or have you ever wanted to take a video of some cool XGL/AIGLX effects? Or maybe a video tutorial to teach a friend how to use something or to upload it on your personal webpage for […]

Comparison of screencasting software

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_screencasting_software A screencast is a digital recording of computer screen output, also known as a video screen capture, often containing audio narration. Although the term screencast dates from 2004, products such as Lotus ScreenCam were used as early as 1994. Early products produced large files and had limited editing features. More recent products support more […]

vnc2swf-edit

in order to reduce file and add to mp3
vnc2swf-edit -a mp3file -s0.5 -oaddPageCmsSmall.swf addPageCms.swf

How to Backup Evolution

December 3, 2005
Posted by Carthik in guides, ubuntu.
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From an old mailing list gem, I got the right method to back up your Evolution (mail + calendar + contacts) data the right way:
Step 1:
Shutdown evolution and gconftool-2:

$gconftool-2 –shutdown
$evolution –force-shutdown
Step 2:
Create an archive with the data and configuration files:
Note: To completely save the Evolution data […]

Eclipse task

Eclipse is more than an IDE. It is best described as a platform for building an IDE. Eclipse boils down to a system that manages plug-ins. It offers services such as loading plug-ins, managing relationships and dependencies among plug-ins, managing the interfaces between plug-ins (through extension points), and more.
Obviously some of the plug-ins offer services […]

swf converter

vnc2swf edit.py script is goed om swf files te converteren in mpeg of verkleinen, geluid toevoegen ezv.
zie ook vnc2swf
usage: edit.py
[-d] [-c] [-t type] [-V] [-f|-F frames] [-a mp3file] [-r framerate]
[-S mp3sampleskip] [-C WxH+X+Y] [-B blocksize] [-K keyframe]
[-R framestep] [-s scaling]
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mdbtools-gmdb JET / MS Access database (MDB) file viewer Linux

JET / MS Access database (MDB) file viewer
GNOME MDB viewer is a graphical interface that allows to export data and
schema from so-called JET database files. (These files are more commonly
known as MDB files for their filename extension, or Access Databases after
the name of the Microsoft application that uses JET as its native embedded
database format)
install

sudo apt-get […]

Linux OCR

Submitted by Austin on Sat, 2007/05/19 - 15:02
* Tech/Geek
by Austin Acton
I’ve used Linux as my full-time desktop for seven years now. I have almost no reason to use Windows (other than stupid ExamSoft), and even when I do, I don’t have much Windows software available. The one “hole” in my workflow […]

OCR (optical character recognition) Links

http://code.google.com/p/ocropus/
OCRopus(tm) is a state-of-the-art document analysis and OCR system, featuring pluggable layout analysis, pluggable character recognition, statistical natural language modeling, and multi-lingual capabilities. The system is being developed with the generous support from Google and other organizations; the primary developers are at the IUPR Research Group at the DFKI Research Center.

http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/
The Tesseract OCR engine was […]

Hunspell

Hunspell is een spellingcontrole en morfologische analyzer ontworpen voor talen met rijke morfologie en complexe samenstelling woord of karakter-codering, die oorspronkelijk ontworpen voor de Hongaarse taal.
Hunspell is gebaseerd op myspell en is achterwaarts compatibel met myspell woordenboeken. Hoewel myspell gebruikt 8-bit ASCII tekencodering, Hunspell kan gebruik worden gemaakt van Unicode UTF-8-gecodeerd woordenboeken.
Hunspell is de spellingcontrole […]

Pdf bestand bijwerken PDFedit

Om PDFedit te installeren op Debian of Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install pdfedit
dan kunt u opstarten van menu toepassingen kantoor of met opdracht

pdfedit
Het is mogelijk om tekst toe te voegen, verwijderen naar afbeelding converteren ezv.
Is geschreven in C++ en javascript.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit/

English Links

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar
English Grammar Reference and Exercises, English Tenses – Overview, All other Grammar Topics, English Tenses Active, Confusing Tenses, Conditional and Subjunctive
http://translate.google.com/translate_t?sl=en&tl=nl
Google translate Vertaalde zoekopdracht Woordenboek Hulpprogramma’s

Openbravo environment installation Ubuntu Kubuntu Linux Mint

Hier kunt u uitgebreide tut vinden met Oracle, en andere platformen.
http://wiki.openbravo.com/wiki/index.php/Openbravo_Command_Line_Installation
Install en run.
http://wiki.openbravo.com/wiki/Openbravo_ERP_installation
To install Database postgresql package:
sudo apt-get install postgresql-8.2
To set the postgres password:

sudo sed -i ’s/ident sameuser$/trust/’ /etc/postgresql/8.2/main/pg_hba.conf
sudo /etc/init.d/postgresql-8.2 restart
psql -U postgres
alter role postgres with password ‘new_password’;
\q
sudo sed -i ’s/trust$/md5/’ /etc/postgresql/8.2/main/pg_hba.conf
sudo /etc/init.d/postgresql-8.2 reload
Debian (Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Linux Mint)
* Debian users: You […]

vnc2swf install Debian

installeer volgende pakketten.

# apt-get install pyvnc2swf
# apt-get install x11vnc

start vncserver

$ x11vnc
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