When someone sends a PDF that’s too huge, just navigate to the directory, and run this command: gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=name_of_compressed_OUTPUT_file.pdf name_of_UNcompressed_INPUT_file.pdf For even smaller files and lower resolution of 150dpi, just change the /prepress part to /ebook SPEED TIP: to quickly get the path in your terminal so you can cd to it quickly, just…
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How to fix a damaged PDF file in Ubuntu
How to fix a damaged PDF file in Ubuntu…
My Journey to Nymea (land)
Edit: Feb 6, 2023 – Nymea has recently launched version 1.6 which appears to have added / adjusted at least some of my ‘positive criticism’ comments below so some may no longer be relevant. Further, be advised always to go to the official nymea.io documentation for the latest and greatest instructions. My stuff is just to go alongside with it.…
How to open a winmail.dat attachment email
‘winmail.dat’ if you get it, is a result of the sender having bad settings on their Windows operating system in their Outlook Express email client. They could fix it and make it go away so you could ask them to do that (and you should) but if you don’t want to waste the time or brain power, there is a…
NMAP Quick Guide Ubuntu
Quick guide to nmap on Ubuntu
Authorize.net and their stupid invalid character password issue
Overcoming the ‘invalid character’ message in authorize.net…
How to Roast Coffee in the Behmor Roaster
A quick guide on getting good results with the Behmor coffee roaster…
How to Reformat or Repurpose an Encrypted Hard Drive
Repurpose an encrypted drive so it’s useful again…
How to make HP Laserjet 1000 work on Ubuntu 20.04
my updated notes on getting an hp laserjet1000 working on ubuntu…
How to beat the Docu-sign “Document Contains No Data” annoyance
The Story *Someone sent me a Docu-sign document to sign I signed it I got the email back with the PDF I Saved the PDF to my ubuntu machine I tried to open the PDF I just saved, but got the message “The Document contains no pages” message. Couldn’t open. Note: This only happens with docu-sign and not other great…