Continuous Page Scrolling in Evince

Evince is a lightweight document viewer specially PDF documents under GNU/Linux desktops. I have used both Adobe Acrobat Reader (Linux port) and Evince some time now, and it is clear that Evince is much lighter than Adobe Acrobat. If you’re trying to get printouts of the PDF then Adobe Acrobat gives better results.

However, recent versions of Evince gave a significantly annoying behaviour (specially the version that’s in the Ubuntu) when I read PDF that has multiple pages. When I want to scroll one page to another, Evince doesn’t allow me to do that with the (UP/DOWN) arrow keys or mouse scroll. It seems like a small issue but if you’re a frequnt user of the tool then you would recognize this as a pretty important feture. So workeround is so simple, go to View on the top menu bar in the Evince and select Continuous. That’s it

OpenOffice Extensions?

Have you thought about extending your OpenOffice package capability by adding an extension, just like we do in FireFox? Well… at least I didn’t know. Checkout the OOo site for the extensions,

http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/

There are number of good plug-ins and templates that may essential in day to day use. Installation of the extension is extremely easy and pain less.

HP Laserjet p1005 with Ubuntu

HP Laserjet p1005 is working perfectly with Linux but only issue is setting it up initially. Console base installation depend on some GCC libraries and you have to manually install them before run the installation script. Install following dependecies,

sudo apt-get install libcupsys2 cupsddk cupsddk-drivers libcupsys2-dev
cupsys-bsd libcupsimage2-dev libdbus-1-dev build-essential gs-esp
openssl libjpeg62-dev libsnmp-dev libtool libusb-dev python-imaging
policykit policykit-gnome python-qt4 python-qt4-dbus python-dbus
python-gobject python-dev python-notify python
python-reportlab libsane libsane-dev sane-utils xsane

Download the latest driver from HPLIP site.

Extract it on your hard disk and run the install script.

You might want to re-install hplip from the synaptic or apt-get again, Thanks Mifan!

Poll to select DVCS for Sahana

Jo has created a poll to select which DVCS to adopt in Sahana Project. It’s interesting to see the poll results on Doodle as it progress. There’s a clear preference towards Bazaar than GIT. At the time I write this post, there were 17 votes for Bazaar and 12 for Git. -

Blogging with ScribeFire

I accidentally found this nice blogging editor call ScribeFire yesterday and thought to give it a try. Seems like a cool tool to post your stuff on the blog. Since I haven’t update my blog recently, thought that I should use the tool and do something

Tool seems like pretty neat and cool. It has it’s own wizard that can connect with most of the popular blog platform out there and lots of pretty tools.

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