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Matthias Braun‭

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Q&A reduce gzip archive size if files are similar

I'd like to use the similarities between files to produce a gzip archive that's as small as possible. On gzip's Wikipedia entry it says that: gzip is not to be confused with the ZIP archive for...

1 answer · posted 4y ago by Matthias Braun‭ · last activity 4y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A Fit page content to paper format in LibreOffice Writer

I have a docx file in A3 format here consisting of one page. Using LibreOffice Writer, I'd like to scale it down to A4 without breaking the layout. Eventually, I want to print the document on an A...

0 answers · posted 3y ago by Matthias Braun‭ · edited 3y ago by Wicket‭

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Q&A Get supported resolutions of scanner in Linux

How can I find out the different image resolutions in DPI that my scanner supports? I'd prefer to use a command line tool to get the supported resolutions.

1 answer · posted 3y ago by Matthias Braun‭ · edited 3y ago by Wicket‭

Question linux command-line scanning

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Q&A Get supported resolutions of scanner in Linux

Using scanimage First, get the name of the scanner with scanimage --list-devices In my case, this produced device `brother4:net1;dev0' is a Brother Brother_DCP-L3550CDW DCP-L3550CDW To get...

posted 3y ago by Matthias Braun‭ · edited 3y ago by Matthias Braun‭

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Q&A Measure distance in pixels on screen

I'd like to draw a rectangle on the screen and get the dimensions in pixels of that rectangle. A bit like a ruler in order to measure the distance on screen. I'm using Sway version 1.8 on Arch Lin...

1 answer · posted 4y ago by Matthias Braun‭ · last activity 4y ago by Matthias Braun‭

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Q&A Measure distance in pixels on screen

One way to do this is using slurp and its -d option. Here's an example of slurp -d on Sway:

posted 4y ago by Matthias Braun‭

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