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Posted by sbrandt on January 7, 2010
The key insight to getting true-type fonts working was finding this page: http://www.go2linux.org/msttcorefonts-true-type-fonts-on-linux. I had to make some minor tweaks to get this to work. Here’s how my session went: yum -y install rpm-build cabextract xfs ttmkfdir rpm -ivh http://dl.atrpms.net/all/chkfontpath-1.10.1-2.fc11.x86_64.rpm wget http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/msttcorefonts-2.0-1.spec rpmbuild -ba msttcorefonts-2.0-1.spec rpm -ivh /root/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/msttcorefonts-2.0-1.noarch.rpm Share on Facebook
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Posted by sbrandt on July 1, 2009
Recently I discovered that OpenOffice can’t really generate RTF files, so I wrote my own converter. It’s rather basic, just handles italic, double space, paragaraphs, and centering. However, for what I need it for it works a lot better than the built-in OpenOffice export ability. The program is written in Java and you can get [...]
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Posted by sbrandt on February 9, 2008
When I began my journey to becoming Catholic I was focused mainly on doctrinal issues, e.g. what is the nature of the eucharist, did Mary remain a virgin her whole life, did Christ intend for the Pope to be the head of the church, etc. After I was fairly far along in my studies I [...]
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Posted by sbrandt on August 23, 2007
After moving to the South I discovered how large and unpleasant cockraoches can be. I used to think those 1 inch long bugs in movies were just props. (Now I count myself lucky, in South America they can get to be six inches long.) I was also amazed to discover how fast they were. They [...]
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