[ubuntu-studio-devel] Off-topic: Elementary OS

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Mon, 7 Sep 2015 10:35:17 -0400, Mike Holstein wrote:
>libreoffice

Thank you,

it's my thought too, to use something I'm used to and than to export to
a PDF. One issue is that I've got scanned certificates, but I guess
I can send several PDFs and assumed everything should be in one PDF,
IIRC I once used a command line tool to merge PDFs.

If I type "pdf" in a terminal and then press the tab-key, I get several
tools.

On Mon, 7 Sep 2015 07:55:10 -0700 (PDT), Len Ovens wrote:
>I have used the print to pdf feature for web pages I have some
>interest in that may dissapear (I learned that web sites do vanish in
>time). They have included various graphics that show in the pdf also.
>I do not knknow if evince will allow editing of a pdf form as well
>becasue I don't remember trying. pdf forms have been around a while
>though.

That's what I often do. In former times I printed websites I wanted to
read without sitting in front of my computer. Nowadays I use the
browser's print option to get PDFs and then I use my iPad as a reader. I
just read those PDFs and I guess they aren't editable. I guess it's
impossible to copy and paste, IIRC those PDF texts are pictures, not
text.


>Mobile phone means "I am willing to be bugged no matter what I am
>doing." That is the kind of worker they are looking for.

But those workers with mobile phones who are always reachable for the
employer OTOH misuse their smart phones 3/4 of the working time and
just work 1/4 of the time. I remember a funny situation when I put
together a trampoline for kids. To mount the frame two hands are not
enough, but less people are able to assist with a free hand, because
they need their hands for the smart phones.

Btw. more than 20 years ago I had a girlfriend that gave her employer
my landline phone number. She aborted vacation for several hours to
boot up a computer. It wasn't a real case of emergency, it was a case
of bollocks. Nobody was able to press a button.

>Any Linux App that can print can also save to pdf.

Thanks, I wasn't sure that all apps are able to do this.