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ImageMagick and Ubuntu 9.04

May 5, 2009 1 Response Shortlink

Using a command line tool like ImageMagick for image processing may sound a really counter-intuitive thing to do but there’s no need to do everything on a case by case interactive basis. Image resizing and format conversion come to mind [...]

Harnessing the power of ImageMagick

October 26, 2008 Leave a response Shortlink

Using the command line to process images might sound senseless but the tools offered by ImageMagick certainly prove that it has its place. I have always been wary of using bulk processing for my digital photo files (some digitised from film prints [...]

Ghostscript: **** Unable to open the initial device, quitting.

October 6, 2008 Leave a response Shortlink

The above error message has been greeting me when creating PDF’s with Ghostscript on a Solaris box and does need some translation. If you are directing output to a real printer, I suppose that it is sensible enough: nothing will happen [...]

A way to combine PDF files in UNIX and Linux

October 4, 2008 2 Responses Shortlink

My latest adventure in the world computing has led me into the world of automated PDF generation. When my first approach didn’t prove to be completely trouble-free, I decided to look at the idea of going part of the way [...]

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