ldb
K5WLF

Steve’s vision, his drive and his dedication to perfection has changed and improved our lives in so many ways. He will truly be missed.

73,
ldb
K5WLF

The watermarking itself is acheived via the mergePage() method from the PdfFileReader class found in the pyPdf module.
The pyPdf module main page is found at:
http://pybrary.net/pyPdf/ Documentation for it is here: http://pybrary.net/pyPdf/pythondoc-pyPdf.pdf.html The pyPdf module is primarily used for the merging, splitting, and otherwise combining of PDF documents.

The creation of the document that is used for the watermark is done via the ReportLab module. It is a very large suite of libraries that handle almost every aspect of creation and formatting of PDF documents. The main page for is is found here:
http://www.reportlab.com/software/opensource/
There is a userguide:
http://www.reportlab.com/docs/reportlab-userguide.pdf
There is also an API reference for the main interfaces:
http://www.reportlab.com/apis/reportlab/dev/

I am still experiement with this technique. I cannot see why I could not also use a graphic in the watermark source doucment rather than text, in order to achieve a graphic watermark on the output document. I think that imagination may be the only limit to this technique.

Thanks for commenting,
Bill – WA5PB

73,
ldb

Not sure you’ll see anything on my own site, as it seems to be broken, along with others in the motd list, and I’m not good enough to correct this. If you see the catagories on my site, do check out the few posts, especially concerning David and Goliath, which I think you’ll find interesting.

Grace and peace through Jesus Christ….
Mike

The designers of Ubuntu 11.04 user interface must have been high on crack when the were designing it. I hope when they come down off their trip they will return things to normal.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/MinimalCD

Then you can select packages by hand. I needed to do this not only out of preference (don’t like the bloat) but also necessity as my laptop is elderly and easily confused. Worked out well.

I just upgraded to Ubuntu 11.04, and the compose keys got broken. Basically, somebody rearranged the keyboard preferences, and you can’t use them to set the compose keys anymore (among other things). The option is probably available graphically, but until I find it, you can revert to the old school way of doing it. Namely,

setxkbmap -option compose:ralt
setxkbmap -option ctrl:nocaps

The first of these will set the compose key to the Right Alt key, which is what I use. The second command sets the Caps Lock key to function just like another Ctrl key.

Put the appropriate lines into your ~/.profile, and you’re up an running again!

Cheers!

This is something I discovered some time ago, and only recently revisited due to switching from Debian to Ubuntu. I don’t remember why this works anymore, but anyhow…

1) Install the uim-gtk2.0 package (and uim-qt, if you want).

2) That’s basically it. ツ You can then set your compose keys and whatnot in the System→Preferences→Keyboard menu.

There’s also another way to setup your .XCompose file; you can source the global file, then add your own definitions below that, so you have a more compact compose file (though it becomes subject to upstream’s modifications, which may or may not be something you want).

Anyway, mine looks something like this:

# Load the defaults first, so that you can overwrite sequences you don’t like
include “/usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose”

: “…” U2026 # HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS
: “↓” downarrow # DOWNWARDS ARROW
# etc. etc.