Disable automatic updates check in Zotero
Posted: 2015-09-10 Filed under: academic, office | Tags: about:config, bibliography, zotero Leave a commentI have been using the Zotero biobliography manager, installed from SBo. Despite that I am the current maintainer of the program at SBo, I cannot immediatelly provide an update of its SlackBuild, when a new version comes out.
Annoyingly, Zotero would insist on showing a notification that a new version is available, offering to update the installation. Read the rest of this entry »
OpenOffice word autocompletion
Posted: 2015-07-22 Filed under: office | Tags: autocorrect, disable, libreoffice, openoffice, turn off, word completion Leave a commentI am currently using OpenOffice.org 4.1.1, installed from SBo and want to remove the word autocompletion behaviour. I googled a bit and found a solution here. Read the rest of this entry »
Firefox: disable the built-in PDF viewer
Posted: 2014-09-25 Filed under: network, office, slackbuilds | Tags: acroread, adobe acrobat, firefox, pdf, viewer, xpdf Leave a commentWhen 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 Filed under: misc, office | Tags: convert, html, pdf, png Leave a commentI 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 »
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