Comment WeasyPrint (Score 2) 132

by t4k1s on Thursday August 07, 2014 @06:34PM (#47626669) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Best PDF Handling Library?

I started with Reportlab (the open source parts), found it to low level so I considered using the commercial edition because it has a templating language. As I was not very fond of investing time in learning yet another templating language, I reconsidered, and gave HTML with CSS a try for printing. I used wkhtmlpdf for a while but switched to WeasyPrint in the end: it was created for using HTML with CSS for printing, seemed to be more actively developed when compared to wkhtmlpdf.

Comment Re:Deblocking filter (Score 1) 6

by takis on Friday January 04, 2008 @11:15AM (#21909332) Attached to: Quick FFMPEG Codec Comparison Test: x264 vs xVid

Hi Phill,

Oh, and it seems CABAC by default is disabled too. Another thing you should really enable:
-coder ac

With friendly regards,
Takis

Microsoft Giving Away Vista Ultimate, With a Catch 495

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday December 12, 2007 @12:48AM from the no-free-lunch dept.

Opinari writes "In case you haven't heard, Microsoft is giving away copies of Windows Vista Ultimate (32-bit or 64-bit DVD), Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007, Microsoft Money Plus Premium, Microsoft Student with Encarta Premium 2008, or Microsoft Streets and Trips 2008 — you can choose any one. The caveat is that you have to let them monitor your use of the program."

Journal Journal: San Sabastian

Journal by takis on Tuesday February 01, 2005 @08:50PM

Last week the OCEAN project meeting took place in Elgoibar near San Sebastian and Bilbao. I took the opportunity to visit the Guggenheim museum and experience the local habits such as the delicious pintxos and the marvelous ciderhouse-style diner.

The local people were all very friendly and there was a very warm and safe atmosphere all over.

This is definitely a place I'd like to visit again.

Journal Journal: Kana

Journal by takis on Friday January 28, 2005 @10:33AM

About two weeks ago on a Saturday, I memorised the Hiragana characters. I'm able to recognise and read them all and their combinations. I started memorising the Katakana characters on Sunday, but since Sunday is family gathering day, I didn't have enough time to spend.

Journal Journal: RTAI 3.2 simplifications

Journal by takis on Friday January 07, 2005 @11:57AM

The number of header and source files in the RTAI Kilauea tree determined with a simple find: 574.

In the Vesuvio tree: 569.

And finally in the new Magma tree: 325. Which shows that some serious cleanup has occurred.

Journal Journal: RTAI 3.2

Journal by takis on Thursday January 06, 2005 @01:36PM

The RTAI developers are preparing to release a new version based on the magma branch. My first impressions are quiet good. They seem to have removed a lot of the unnecessary stuff, which makes the project appear somewhat less complicated.

Journal Journal: DVD authoring

Journal by takis on Tuesday December 21, 2004 @07:58PM

Creating DVD-Videos with Open Source software has gotten a lot easier recently. By using ffmpeg, dvdauthor and growisofs one can create a valid DVD-Video for free and rather fast.

Comment Re:Kernel Recompile (Score 1) 361

by t4k1s on Monday September 27, 2004 @02:10PM (#10364599) Attached to: Solaris vs Linux Continues

Some distro's provide kernel packages for various CPU's. No need to recompile it.

kernel-image-2.6.8-1-386 - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.8 on 386.
kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686 - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.8 on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/PIV.
kernel-image-2.6.8-1-6 86-smp - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.8 on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/PIV SMP.
kernel-image-2.6.8-1-k7 - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.8 on AMD K7.
kernel-image-2.6.8-1-k7-smp - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.8 on AMD K7 SMP.
kernel-image-2.6.8-2-amd64-generic - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.8 on generic x86_64 systems.
kernel-image-2.6.8-2-amd64-k8 - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.8 on AMD64 systems.
kernel-image-2.6.8-2-amd64-k8-smp - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.8 on AMD K8 SMP.
kernel-image-2.6.8-2-amd64-xeon - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.8 on Intel amd64 systems.

Journal Journal: Blender with CORBA

Journal by t4k1s on Tuesday May 04, 2004 @06:59AM

Last Sunday I experimented with using CORBA from within Blender's Python scripting environment. Yesterday, I extended these simple scripts to use the EventService to receive its updated data.

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