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Activity for Matthias Braun
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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 BrotherDCP-L3550CDW DCP-L3550CDW To get the different options and capabilities of that device, run scanimage --help -d 'b... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
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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. (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
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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 A4 page. Things I've tried: 1. In the menu, go to "Format" → "Page Style" and change the paper ... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
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A: Measure distance in pixels on screen One way to do this is using slurp and its `-d` option to see the rectangle's dimensions. Here's an example of `slurp -d` on Sway: Demonstration of slurp -d (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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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 Linux 5.19.9. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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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 format, which also uses DEFLATE. The ZIP format can hold collections of files without an external archi... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |