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Writing a GIMP based LCD icon designer

By on June 24, 2015

This will be a very long post with steps into extending GIMP with a python plugin for designing and exporting icons for graphic LCDs. Why? when I export C code from the Gimp export as menu, and select RGB565 (16-bit) option, I get code like this: /* GIMP RGB C-Source image dump (testgimp.c) */ static […]

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Cropping and merging PDF files with gostscript

By on June 18, 2015

To crop a PDF to a width of 300 and a height of 842 (slim A4) mostly used for payslips and similar documents: gs -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=300 -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=842 -dFIXEDMEDIA -o cropped.pdf source.pdf To merge several PDF documents, mostly used to attach certificates to a CV and the like: gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite […]

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A smooth Android 4.4.4 KitKat ROM for Samsung galaxy S GT-I9000

By on June 12, 2015

I have been struggling with the latest stable Cyanogen-mod(CM11) ROM for a while on the I9000, it was buggy, luggy and had poor battery life. I just flushed a KitKat ROM by a recognized XDA developer kasper_h, The Mackay ROM 4.9.13 (11-Oct-2014). This ROM is based on CyanogenMod sources, with several performance enhancements including a […]

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