Favorite windows software: ISO burning
Mar0
Having had sporadic use for an ISO burner over the years I have normally defaulted to ISO Recorder a nice wee application. This time however I had some rewritable CD’s which needed blanking before being record-able. ISO Recorder does not have this function so I trawled around looking for an alternative.
After trying the free version of Nero (couldn’t for the life of me find the ISO record function) I ended up with ISO Image burner which elegantly handled CD-RW’s not problem and I am now installing Trixbox for Wastebusters from CD on a Toshiba laptop we had lying around here.
Inkscape – 0.47 = PDF beauty.
Dec0
I would like nothing more than to make Ubuntu my main operating system. But for that to happen I need graphics and CAD programs, with this in mind I have been using Inkscape on and off over the last few years and keeping an eye on developments.
This week I loaded up the new version 0.47 and tested it out on a few small, odd tasks I had to do. Strangely these did not include drawing which is Inkscapes strength.
- Extracting pages from a PDF
I like to fill out forms on the computer as opposed to printing, hand writing, scanning and emailing. If you are lucky enough to have Illustrator or Indesign this is relatively easy. Inkscape now extracts single pages from a PDF, you can then lock that into a layer and type over the top – even place your pre-scanned signature. Inkscape performed this seamlessly. Excellent! - Outputting as PDF
I had a logo to output and my experience with PDF export in Inkscape has been sketchy in the past, crashing the application and strange clipping in some object fills. This time is was as fast and beautiful as I could have wanted. Again Excellent!
So… along with the excellent drawing main feature set Inkscape is an excellent PDF editor (at least for single pages).
No all I need is Google to put out a Linux edition of Sketchup. Please. Pretty please.
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