Mageia 2

It's out. It's amazing. It works on the macbook pro. Enough said.

Go update or install NOW!.

Mandriva and Mageia, Am I not a farseer?

Note this blog post of mine (and the date) and this announcement from Mageia.

No more left to say.

Fixin a form PDF saved with Mac OSX Preview

Working with tax forms, this year I found the form as an editable PDF.
Unfortunately I had the bad idea of editing e saving it with preview, rendering t unusable with Adobe Reader, which I had to use to print with a windows machine.

Google came to my rescue.
http://kb2.adobe.com/community/publishing/885/cpsid_88564.html

So this is what I have done:

• I installed the javascript in my linux box (in ~/.adobe/Acrobat/version/JavaScripts)
• This as per the documentation add a new option to the file menu, so you have to open the file which does not display the edited items and use " Fix Field Appearances"
• Now you can't save the PDF, but you can print it to a PS file
• run ps2pdf on the ps file and enjoy your pdf ready to be transferred to your windows box.
• Profit... :)