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Re: Why choose Debian on server

From David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Why choose Debian on server
Date 2019-01-07 22:00 +0100
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On Mon 07 Jan 2019 at 18:21:07 (+0000), Brian wrote:
> On Sun 06 Jan 2019 at 18:13:58 -0600, David Wright wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > BTW if this Screenshot method is meant to yield a "printable"
> > document, I haven't yet figured out how to print it sensibly.
> > $ lp -d PDF very-long-image.png   gives me the image on one page,
> > and looks, as it happens, like the sort of output that FF sometimes
> > gives when printing articles: a narrow column of minute text.
> 
> To nitpick, the claim was that the Raspberry Pi Stack Exchange page
> was printable. Whether the marks on paper satisfied a user in all
> regards wasn't touched on until now.

I think it's reasonable to demand a certain level of legibility.

> For me, printing the screen image obtained from my chosen page from
> the Print Preview of FireFox gave an acceptable output with a Custom
> Scale. It helped to choose Landscape mode.

The landscape mode changes the output from a very tall image printed
on a portrait page to the same image printed across it instead,
reducing the scale by the golden proportion.

> 'lp -d.....' benefits from fiddling with the scaling= option and from
> orientation-requested=4.

This gets very involved. Having tried feeding convert with the image,
I see that it can produce a pretty faithful PDF which suffers only
from the usual problem of being overtall.

If I was going to indulge in this very often (which I'm not) I think
it would be worth writing a script to run convert on page-size slices
of the image, outputting them as PDFs, and collate them into a
conventional multipage document with pdftk. It would be fairly simple
to compute the y-size by ratioing the x-size according to the paper
regime, and even allow for some overlap between pages (because one
doesn't know where to slice in between lines of text).

PS what's a backdoord malward?

Cheers,
David.

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Why choose Debian on server Alessandro Baggi <alessandro.baggi@gmail.com> - 2019-01-02 12:00 +0100
  Re: Why choose Debian on server Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2019-01-02 15:00 +0100
    Re: Why choose Debian on server deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-01-02 15:30 +0100
      Re: Why choose Debian on server Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2019-01-02 17:50 +0100
        Re: Why choose Debian on server deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-01-02 19:50 +0100
          Re: Why choose Debian on server Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> - 2019-01-02 21:20 +0100
            Re: Why choose Debian on server deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-01-02 23:20 +0100
              Re: Why choose Debian on server Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> - 2019-01-03 01:40 +0100
          Re: Why choose Debian on server Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2019-01-02 22:10 +0100
            Re: Why choose Debian on server deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-01-02 23:30 +0100
  Re: Why choose Debian on server David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2019-01-02 18:10 +0100
    Re: Why choose Debian on server Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> - 2019-01-02 21:00 +0100
      Re: Why choose Debian on server Alessandro Baggi <alessandro.baggi@gmail.com> - 2019-01-03 10:40 +0100
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          Re: Why choose Debian on server Alessandro Vesely <vesely@tana.it> - 2019-01-04 19:00 +0100
            Re: Why choose Debian on server deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-01-04 21:00 +0100
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      Re: Why choose Debian on server deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-01-03 17:30 +0100
      Re: Why choose Debian on server Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-01-03 20:30 +0100
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              Re: Why choose Debian on server deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-01-04 09:40 +0100
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                Re: Why choose Debian on server Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-01-04 21:30 +0100
                Re: Why choose Debian on server Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2019-01-04 21:40 +0100
                Re: Why choose Debian on server Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-01-04 22:20 +0100
                Re: Why choose Debian on server deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-01-04 22:40 +0100
                Re: bad printing results (was: Why choose Debian on server) Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2019-01-04 23:20 +0100
                Re: bad printing results (was: Why choose Debian on server) Cindy Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2019-04-03 16:10 +0200
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                Re: Why choose Debian on server Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-01-05 12:10 +0100
                Re: Why choose Debian on server Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-01-05 14:20 +0100
                Re: Why choose Debian on server mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2019-01-05 13:10 +0100
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                Re: Why choose Debian on server Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2019-01-06 16:20 +0100
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                Re: Why choose Debian on server Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-01-06 16:40 +0100
                Re: Why choose Debian on server Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2019-01-06 17:10 +0100
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                Re: Why choose Debian on server Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-01-06 18:10 +0100
                Re: Why choose Debian on server Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2019-01-06 18:30 +0100
                Re: Why choose Debian on server Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-01-06 18:40 +0100
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                Re: Why choose Debian on server Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-01-10 11:10 +0100
                Re: long page screenshots (was: Why choose Debian on server) Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2019-01-07 01:50 +0100
                Re: Why choose Debian on server Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2019-01-06 18:50 +0100
                Re: Why choose Debian on server David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-01-07 01:20 +0100
                Re: Why choose Debian on server Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2019-01-07 19:30 +0100
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                Re: Why choose Debian on server Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2019-01-09 21:50 +0100
                Re: Why choose Debian on server David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-01-16 00:20 +0100
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                Re: Why choose Debian on server Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> - 2019-01-04 22:30 +0100
                Re: Why choose Debian on server Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-01-04 23:10 +0100
                Re: Why choose Debian on server Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2019-01-04 22:00 +0100
                Re: Why choose Debian on server Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-01-04 22:20 +0100
                Re: Why choose Debian on server deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-01-04 22:50 +0100
              Re: Why choose Debian on server Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-01-04 16:00 +0100
                Re: Why choose Debian on server Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-01-04 19:30 +0100
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