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Questions tagged [documents]

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How do I convert a '.pages' file to something unix-y?

I have a file with the extension '.pages´. I think that means iWork, but I'm not sure. Anyway, searching for "convert pages linux" produces a fair few false negatives! Does anyone happen to know a way to convert it to something reasonable on…
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Light, easy-to-use presentation software

I am looking for a Linux presentation software and the main features I need are: Light on dependencies and resource consumption (I use GTK+) Easy to use Align & Distribute information on slide Uses pictures The extra features I would like…
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Linux PPTX presentation Viewer

Besides Open Office, is there any solution for opening .pptx presentations on Linux (Debian to be more precise)?
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OCR on Linux systems

I have always found OCR technology to be behind on open source systems. I've also watched the Ocropus project since its infancy. I've tried what I've heard is the best OCR engine available for Linux, Tesseract, and have found it woefully lacking…
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Zathura's best-fit command ('a') for documents with varying page size

I'm usually using the wonderful document viewer 'zathura' for reading PDF-files. Typically, for some documents, the first page of the document is slightly larger than the rest (for example, a photograph of a book cover). In this case the 'best-fit'…
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Is there a linux equivalent of the Mac OS X command "textutil"?

On Mac OS X there's a very handy command called textutil, that can be invoked from the terminal and allows to convert a document from a format to another; Sometimes I use it to convert a RTF file into HTML, but it's also able to convert doc, docx,…
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Vim: word wrap for documents

What's the best way to do word wrapping for a document in vim? I'd like have each line wrap at 80 characters, not just visually wrap but enter a newline. I got this kind of working by using :set wrap :set linebreak But if I go back and insert text…
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Export from KWD (old KWord/KOffice document format) to anything else

I've got 75 documents in KWD format, from my old days using KDE 3.x. I'd like to convert them to ODT or RTF, so I can edit them with Open Office, Abiword or the newer KWord, but I haven't found a good/quick way to do it. Opening them in an old…
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Edit .docx files with Emacs?

I'm starting with Emacs, and testing around I wondered if I could edit my own .docx file from there, just to explore its features and that stuff. But my surprise is huge when, having the text perfectly displayed in my screen, I can't manage to…
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Safely handling PDFs and other ebook formats on Linux

I'm running Arch Linux and using Okular for opening PDF files and FBReader for other ebook formats (Epub, Mobi, etc.). Simply put, here's my question: Assuming some of those documents come from unreliable sources and contain malicious code what can…
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personal document management system

I'm looking for a personal document management system that would: track changes in documents in a configured directory tree save new files to a content repository (thus allowing of their versioning) offer some kind of web gui for browsing the…
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How to split each page of a djvu file?

In a djvu file, it has two book pages in one djvu page. I would like to split it so that one book page per djvu page. For example, I was wondering if this can be done by some software, preferably command line utilities? Thanks and regards! PS: This…
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Regex search in PDF reader

I am using zathura, as I enjoy its minimalist approach, but I would also switch to mupdf or anything else if this would solve my problem. I need to highlight every word (in PDF and epub documents) one by one from start to finish because I can…
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Override page numbers of a djvu document

I have a djvu scan of a book. Let's consider two cases: I'd like to number the pages 0, 1, 2, ... (usage case: the cover should get be page 0) I'd like to number some pages with Roman numbers and some with Arabic numbers, for example: i, ii, iii,…
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Where should I keep personal files so they are safe across system re-installs?

I want to make sure that at the next system installation/restoration my files are not lost. Using tweakers I can change Window's default folders (e.g. move "My documents" from C: drive to D:). Right now I have Linux Mint 15 Mate installed on…
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