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anything about the portable document format (pdf)

Mass renaming papers with BibTex+JabRef export filters

28 June, 2010 in category LaTeX, english, mathematics by Konrad.

I wrote a JabRef export filter that takes a BibTex file with file links and writes a linux shell script to rename the files systematically according to the scheme [bibtexkey] – [authors] – [title].[extension].

A survey of GNU/Linux shortcomings

14 February, 2010 in category android OS, computers, english, web by Konrad.

Sadly, Ubuntu is not perfect. A wish-list of future Ubuntu features/applications. Some are available on Windows or Mac OS X, most aren’t.

Managing the paper’s metadata

25 January, 2010 in category LaTeX, computers, english, web by Konrad.

Annotations and other metadata issues with PDFs, PostScript documents, DjVu files, XMP metadata, various extraction tools and ways to manipulate document metadata. The focus lies on Linux but something works with Windows and Mac OS X, too.

Managing papers

23 January, 2010 in category LaTeX, english, mathematics, web by Konrad.

I have lots of PDFs on my hard-disk, and most of them is half-read or unread. Since I’m studying mathematics, these PDFs are lecture notes, research papers, my own notes and several more-or-less relevant books. How do I organise them?