Archive for the ‘Application Management’ Category

LibreOffice and PDF export

LibreOffice has a feature, that can export to PDF.
However, we experienced, that there seems to a problem with export of a picture to PDF. On a Ubuntu 11.04 operating system, we opened LibreOffice Writer, wrote a line of tekst, inserted a JPEG picture from a file and pressed the icon for export to PDF. The [...]

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LibreOffice and file locking on Network File System (NFS)

When opening a LibreOffice or OpenOffice document, that is stored on a Network File System (NFS), LibreOffice and OpenOffice is known to crash due to a problem in LibreOffice and OpenOffice. The problem has to do with locking of files. Locking of files prevent users from working in the same document. [...]

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Installing Skype on Ubuntu

kype is a little piece of software, that is used to make free calls to other users of Skype, anywhere in the world. Skype can also be used to call phones and mobile phones at cheap rates. Skype is free to download.
In this example, we will install Skype on a Ubuntu 9.10 operating system.
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Making movies with Sony Handycam DCR-SX30, Ubuntu Linux and Kino

The Sony Handycam DCR-SX30 is a digital video recorder (DVR), that stores video clips in the MPEG program stream (PS, MPEG-PS) container format, that multiplexes one digital video channel and two digital audio channels. The video channel is MPEG-2 at a 16:9 wide screen frame resolution (dimension) of 720 x 576 pixels at a rate [...]

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Udskrift fra Navigator til laserprinter Brother HL-4050CDN

Dette er fremgangsmåden for udskrift fra finansprogrammet Navigator til laserprinter Brother HL-4050CDN, der understøtter netværk, farveprint og emulering (emulation) af HP LaserJet.
Tidligere modeller fra Brother har understøttet emulering af IBM Proprinter XL 24. Det er desværre slut med HL-4050CDN.
Det forudsættes, at laserprinteren er konfigureret på netværket, installeret i operativsystemet og lytter på LTP1.
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