Videos tagged with PDF


Tekzilla Daily Tip #523: CES 2010: Breakthrough enTourage eDGe 2-Screen eBook Adds Web Browsing!

Tekzilla Daily Tip #523: CES 2010: Breakthrough enTourage eDGe 2-Screen eBook Adds Web Browsing!

Posted in Companies, Podcasts, Mobile

Breakthrough new eReader combines ebook with netbook in two screen formatNew Android based eBook reader, the enTourage eDGe debuts at CES Unveiled and combines a full-sized ebook reader screen with a second screen designed to surf the internet, play movies, and more! enTourage eDGe Homepage

Tags: Google, Technologies, Edge, PDF, Revision3, Tekzilla, tech, Kindle, Tekzilla Daily Tip, gadget, Broadcasting, ...



Propping Open the Document Trapdoor

Propping Open the Document Trapdoor

Posted in Conferences, Companies, Science

Computer document processing often starts with an abstract, structural, representation before entering a processing pipeline which creates a desired layout and appearance. But unfortunately the whole system resembles a series of steps in a one-way chemical reaction, or the successive irreversible stages of creating assembler code using a compiler. This `one-way function' behaviour is most obvio...

Tags: Techtalks, Google, Conferences, Technologies, Science, Computer Science, PDF, Google Tech Talks, Text Mining, Companies, document processing, ...


Meet the GIMP #114: Secrets of a Portaloo!

Meet the GIMP #114: Secrets of a Portaloo!

Posted in Graphics

  You can win a book in our two contests – the exact rules will be published in the next posting. I continue to work on my project “Access Control”. My target is a photo book by blurb.com. They accept PDF files for printing – which is important for me because most of the book making software of the printers doesn’t work on Linux. Of course there is an Open Sou...

Tags: Design, GIMP, PDF, RAW, Access Control, Meet the GIMP, enhance contrast, UFRaw, Broadcasting, Screencasts, overlay mode, ...


RubyConf 2008: Ruby Mendicant Project

RubyConf 2008: Ruby Mendicant Project

Posted in Conferences, Development

The Ruby Mendicant project was at first meant as a joke. Who would be crazy enough to donate money to an individual developer to work on unspecified open source projects for 3-6 months without any explicit goals? As it turns out, 70 individual Rubyists, along with Ruby Central, Inc. and the MountainWest Ruby Conference were! Gregory will provide a brief overview of the Ruby Mendicant project, a...

Tags: Conferences, Ruby, Gems, PDF, Confreaks, RubyConf 2008, Prawn, Ruby Mendicant


Ruby Plus #70: Extremely Simple PDF Generation in Rails using HTMLDOC

Ruby Plus #70: Extremely Simple PDF Generation in Rails using HTMLDOC

Posted in Development, Frameworks, Web Technologies

In this episode you will see how to use HTML doc gem to create pdf documents that is very easy to create in your Rails 2.0 apps in a RESTful way. I will throw in a very useful tip on how to debug issues in your production environment using log files. The download includes instructions for compiling and installing HTMLDOC. Note: I think if you define map.resource :product in routes.rb, you might...

Tags: Debugging, Ruby, Ruby On Rails, Frameworks, REST, Ruby Plus, RESTful, Gems, PDF, htmldoc, log, ...