Hi :) They do and it does. :D This "mega pixel" malarky is hilarious. Everyone else is racing to get more and more mega-pixels (is 12 or 16 mega-pixels the standard issue now?) so that they can have more noise and distortions and file-sizes like a herd of elephants trying to stampeded down my phone-line. One company is trying to market a 4 Mega-pixels camera that gives a better quality image by not adding in random fuzziness. However everyone is going to say "this 16 megapixels MUST be better than 4 right? 4 is old isn't it?". meanwhile we getting stunning photos of Mars done on 'old' 2 megapixels cameras. It wouldn't be quite so bad if "mega-pixel" really meant anything. It clearly does NOT mean 1,000 pixels (or 1,024 in computers) Regards from Tom :)
>________________________________ > From: Felmon Davis <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Tuesday, 16 April 2013, 2:45 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem > > >On Mon, 15 Apr 2013, Tom Davies wrote: > >> Hi :) >> Most on-line dictionaries (in the top 10 according to a google search) agree >> that >> "A neologism is a newly coined term, word, or >> phrase, that may be in the process of entering common use, but has not >> yet been accepted into mainstream" >> but my fav is Mirriam-Webster's bucking the trend amusingly >> "a meaningless word coined by a psychotic." >> >> Even though it is not apt it's still quietly amusing, to me at >> least, sorry Felmon bud! :) > >no problem but seriously, if the people in the telly were constantly >sending _you_ neologisms, don't pretend it wouldn't unsettle you a bit >too. > >F. > >> Regards from Tom :) >> >> >> >> >> >> >>> ________________________________ >>> From: Felmon Davis <[email protected]> >>> To: [email protected] >>> Sent: Monday, 15 April 2013, 21:59 >>> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem >>> >>> >>> On Mon, 15 Apr 2013, anne-ology wrote: >>> >>>> very interesting, yes indeed ;-) >>>> >>>> well, the more I read this list, 'the more I seem to learn, yet the >>>> stupider I feel' ;-) >>>> (the glorified typewriter has so surpassed me) >>>> >>>> I note you've used a 'new' word; acronymonious seems to fit well in >>>> this saga - >>>> yet I hope you didn't mis-type acrimonious ;-) >>>> (oh, surely not) >>> >>> I did not mistype. I went neologistic on you. >>> >>> F. >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Felmon Davis <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> On Mon, 15 Apr 2013, anne-ology wrote: >>>>> >>>>> yikes, sounds as if I need further information - >>>>>> or need to keep studying ... ... ... ;-) >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> not sure how the further discussion would be relevant to you if you just >>>>> want to use the tool. the link I gave you explains the things pdftk can >>>>> do. >>>>> you can then decide if it might be useful. >>>>> >>>>> the next step is to determine if you find it convenient to use. >>>>> >>>>> of course, if you are also interested in how the tool is built, then >>>>> that's a different matter. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Please update re. this / these tks whenever; I'll stay tuned ;-) >>>>>> >>>>>> Ah, acronyms ;-) >>>>>> tk := >>>>>> http://www.acronymfinder.com/**TK.html<http://www.acronymfinder.com/TK.html> >>>>>> (well, while waiting to understand all this, my mind tends to >>>>>> wander >>>>>> - puns are so much fun :-) ) >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> don't mean to be acronymonious about it but all disciplines and >>>>> occupations use abbreviations and have specialist dictionaries - >>>>> general-purpose dictionaries won't do. >>>>> >>>>> F. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Felmon Davis <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> On Sun, 14 Apr 2013, Girvin Herr wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Felmon, >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Looks like pdftk is written in Java. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/****Pdftk<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Pdftk> >>>>>>>> <https://en.wikipedia.**org/wiki/Pdftk<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pdftk> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> So the gui (Graphical User Interface) is whatever the Java Runtime >>>>>>>> Environment (JRE) interfaces with. From my experience, it isn't >>>>>>>> pretty, >>>>>>>> but functional. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I noticed there are some other source files and some 3rd-party code in >>>>>>>> the package that I did not take time to investigate, and it takes Gcc >>>>>>>> to >>>>>>>> build it. But one of the big ideas of Java is that it contains its own >>>>>>>> gui >>>>>>>> code, so the programmer's effort is greatly reduced. I would be >>>>>>>> surprised >>>>>>>> if pdftk does not use the standard Java gui. >>>>>>>> Girvin Herr >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> good to know, especially about the '3rd-party code'. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> makes sense the gui would be in java so it can run on various platforms. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I don't however foresee myself invoking the gui unless I'm working off >>>>>>> of >>>>>>> Windows or something. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I'll look but I bet there's a command-line version for Windows too. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> F. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On 04/13/2013 11:24 PM, Felmon Davis wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On Sat, 13 Apr 2013, Tom Davies wrote: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> <snip> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I'm only familiar with pdftk as a command-line tool; thus I was >>>>>>>>> confused >>>>>>>>> by the discussion of desktop environments. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> it does have a gui interface (or several?) and then there are the >>>>>>>>> Windows and Mac versions. I don't know what is used to make the gui >>>>>>>>> interface on Linux. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Felmon >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> <snip> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> Felmon Davis >>> >>> >>> -- >>> For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] >>> Problems? >>> http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >>> Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >>> List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >>> All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be >>> deleted >>> >>> >>> >>> > >-- >Felmon Davis > >Chastity and virtue are their own punishment. >-- >For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] >Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > > > > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
