Firefox: disable the built-in PDF viewer

Posted: 2014-09-25 | Author: | Filed under: network, office, slackbuilds | Tags: , , , , , | Leave a comment

When the built-in PDF viewer arrived for Firefox, I was quite excited. However, I have to admit that it does not always work well. Sometimes fonts look weird and pictures distorted. Read the rest of this entry »

Converting html

Posted: 2014-09-19 | Author: | Filed under: misc, office | Tags: , , , | Leave a comment

I need to convert a simple webpage to PDF and picture format. Usually, I would just take a screenshot, however it is too big. I searched and I found a nice little tool, called wkhtmltopdf. Read the rest of this entry »

GenomeTools

Posted: 2014-09-17 | Author: | Filed under: academic, drawing, slackbuilds | Tags: , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

I need to export gene coordinates and exon organisation as a figure. I have prepared the annotations in UniPro Ugene, which I have installed from SBo. A nice tool for graphical representation of such data is provided by the GenomeTools software. It can be easily installed from SBo, too. Read the rest of this entry »