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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Yes. I can confirm, it works even on Gentoo. But I stick to the Flatpak version, anyway, because there I was able to tell it to use Xwayland instead of wayland directly (through Flatseal).

    It seems the wayland support isn’t great yet and it tries to grab keys combination that are reserved for my window manager (Gnome). In the flatpak sandbox I don’t have any issues.

    Only game running game detection will not work in the sandbox.

    Or is there even a setting to tell it, using the X11 backend so that the keybind issues for the native version go away?








  • I have gone from borgbackup to rdiff-backup to reduce complexity and dependencies. rdiff-backup’s incremental strategy needs more space than deduplication from borgbackup, but you don’t need fuse and borg itself to restore your latest backup.

    With rdiff-backup you can just use cp -a to restore all your files. Only if you need a file you deleted ages ago, you need it.

    I relied on borgbackup for a long time, never had an incident. But then I wanted to try the new replication borg2 feature and almost lost my original borg1 repo. With rdiff-backup you can just rsync the repo to another drive and have two copies of your offline offsite redundant backup. Encryption is a non-issue, you can run it on top of every other filesystem and LUKS or over SSH.

    Granted, I just switched to rdiff-backup, but I am loving the simplicity of it already.


  • Finally I found the time to write down, how I use Ghostscript:

    gs \
        -sDEVICE=pdfwrite \
        -o /output/gs_file.pdf \
        -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress \
        -sProcessColorModel=DeviceCMYK \
        -sDefaultCMYKProfile=/path/to/ISOcoated_v2_eci.icc \
        -sColorConversionStrategy=CMYK \
        source/file.pdf \
        -f
    

    I don’t now which of ProcessColorModel or ColorConversionStrategy is the important one. I kept both and did not bother to try to omit one of them. -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress makes sure that embedded bitmaps are in 300dpi and I think -f prevents Ghostscript staying in interactive mode after all pages have been finished.






  • ghostcript can add a color profile, too. I use the regular ISO coated v2 (without the 300%). This is just a step to not do all things in Scribus by hand and make sure colors are not out of gamut.

    I don’t now the command line from the top of my head. Just ping me again, so when I am on my computer I can send the complete ghostscript cli line that currently works for me.

    The final profile is set up by Scribus, where I have set it to the ISO coated with 300%. Ideally I would like to have less steps in the chain, so that a change in the Inkscape-source involves less manually steps. One can dream of it. (: