senderle

So you want to modify the text of a PDF by hand...

If you, like me, resent every dollar spent on commercial PDF tools, you might want to know how to change the text content of a PDF without having to pay for Adobe Acrobat or another PDF tool. I didn't see an obvious open-source tool that lets you dig into PDF internals, but I did discover a few useful facts about how PDFs are structured that I think may prove useful to others (or myself) in the future. They are recorded here. They are surely not universally applicable --
the PDF standard is truly Byzantine -- but they worked for my case.

clample

NixOS Ubuntu Dual Boot

Why?

After using NixOS for a year, I've found it to be a great operating system. When the software I need is on nixpkgs, things work out great. When I need to install software from outside of nixpkgs, though, it can become a pain. Trying to figure out the quirks of some closed source application can become pretty complicated. It would be great to package it and contribute it back to nixpkgs, but a lot of the time I just want to have the application working as soon as possible.

Since Ubuntu is a more standard linux distribution, I hope that it's better supported by some of these closed source applications. By dual booting, it's possible to get the best of both worlds.

Alternatives to Dual Booting

vladignatyev

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