Yesterday, I needed to convert about 30 single jpegs into one single pdf. Using stitchy , https://pkgsrc.se/graphics/stitchy I was able to convert the series into a single jpeg. But, I was missing the second step. Today, I've packaged jpeg-to-pdf , https://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-changes/2021/02/23/msg229691.html and was able to convert the single jpegs into one pdf buy simply using these tools. cd directory_with_the_images stitchy -v 30 jpeg-to-pdf stitch.jpg --dpi 200 -o result.pdf if(window.hljsLoader && !document.currentScript.parentNode.hasAttribute('data-s9e-livepreview-onupdate')) { window.hljsLoader.highlightBlocks(document.currentScript.parentNode); } Just thought, I'd share 🙂

pin Cool, these might come in handy.

Simple tools

Dowloading an article from a given url and reading it locally.

Today, I've packaged paperoni,
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-changes/2021/02/24/msg229720.html

In combination with bk
https://pkgsrc.se/textproc/bk

one can simply run,

$ paperoni https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetBSD
Fetching...
Extracting
Grabbing article
Downloading images...
Created "NetBSD - Wikipedia.epub"
$ bk NetBSD\ -\ Wikipedia.epub

rvp

pin Just thought, I'd share

I would've thought the ImageMagick tools did this sort of thing very well. Did you give that a try?

rvp being honest, nope, i did not.
ImageMagick is huge and bloated.

bsduck

Is your wallpaper also a simple tool to turn a NetBSD system into a DragonFly BSD?

bsduck 😆 nope and I don't intend to. HAMMER is like ZFS, I can see the use cases
on a server but on a desktop/laptop it's just overkill.

I know NetBSD is getting better regarding ZFS support but, honestly, I hope UFS will continue to be default.

pfr

pin ImageMagick is huge and bloated.

Agree.
I also no longer install anything that requires Imagemagick as a dependency. And My HDD is big enough, I just like to to practice keeping a lite system.

pin I hope UFS will continue to be default.

Also agree.

bsduck Is your wallpaper also a simple tool to turn a NetBSD system into a DragonFly BSD?

Everytime I see it I think of how this would be the perfect wall for a DragonFly install.

ALSO:

Just in general, I am following this thread. @pin you know Iove cool cli tools that do one specific thing. However, I do always appreciate when @rvp reminds us of core/built-in unix utils that do the same thing.

rvp

pin ImageMagick is huge and bloated.

Well, not bloated; more like complicated to use--very sometimes.

bsduck but if you don't use them they won't annoy you either

Well, they do, my SSD is 30GB. I don't want a CoW fs.

rvp Well, not bloated; more like complicated to use--very sometimes.

pin@mybox $ df -h                             
Filesystem     Size   Used  Avail %Cap Mounted on
/dev/wd0a       26G   5.7G    19G  23% /
tmpfs          1.9G   8.0K   1.9G   0% /tmp
kernfs         1.0K   1.0K     0B 100% /kern
ptyfs          1.0K   1.0K     0B 100% /dev/pts
procfs         4.0K   4.0K     0B 100% /proc
tmpfs          1.9G     0B   1.9G   0% /var/shm
pin@mybox $ pkg_info | wc -l                  
     191
pin@mybox $ please pkgin install ImageMagick 
calculating dependencies...done.

12 packages to install:
  ImageMagick-7.0.10.61 openjpeg-2.4.0 liblqr-0.4.2nb1 libheif-1.10.0 lcms2-2.11 ghostscript-9.05nb24 ghostscript-agpl-9.53.3 x265-3.4 libde265-1.0.8nb1
  libaom-1.0.0nb3 jbig2dec-0.19nb1 ghostscript-fonts-8.11nb3

0 to refresh, 0 to upgrade, 12 to install
38M to download, 97M to install

proceed ? [Y/n] n
pin@mybox $

bloated.

bsduck

My laptop HDD is formatted with ZFS for the simple reason it is faster than UFS (I tried both and kept the fastest).
For sure it has lots of features I will never use, but if you don't use them they won't annoy you either 🙂

rvp

pin bloated.

That's bloated in the same way that Firefox is bloated: unneeded dependencies.

$ cd ImageMagick-7.0.11-1
$ ./configure --prefix=/tmp/im --disable-static --with-magick-plus-plus=no \
	--disable-hdri --without-modules --disable-deprecated \
	--with-quantum-depth=8 --without-perl
$ make
$ make install
$ du -sh /tmp/im
 18M    /tmp/im/
$ du -sh /tmp/im/*
 21K    /tmp/im/bin
257K    /tmp/im/etc
755K    /tmp/im/include
6.1M    /tmp/im/lib
 11M    /tmp/im/share
$ /tmp/im/bin/convert logo: logo.pdf
$ file logo.pdf
logo.pdf: PDF document, version 1.3
$ /tmp/im/bin/convert logo: logo.sixel
$ file logo.sixel
logo.sixel: ASCII text, with very long lines, with no line terminators, with escape sequences
$

I wouldn't say bloated. More like a comfortable middle-age spread, and, with a bit of dieting and exercise, could easily get a waistline of someone in his late 20s.

pfr Everytime I see it I think of how this would be the perfect wall for a DragonFly install.

😁

pfr

rvp That's bloated in the same way that Firefox is bloated: unneeded dependencies.

I'd actually love to know how to remove unneeded dependencies from Firefox if that is possible?

rvp

pfr Dunno--Firefox is the one thing I've never compiled. I used to compile everything else from source at one time.

oui

Hey @pin , no worries! There's an emacs command to fix your wallpaper - good ol' C-x M-c M-dragonflytoflag

Note: this is an emacs butterfly joke - I use vi.

oui 😱 you sliced them in half. Poor creatures 😢

nia

pin: complains about a package having 12 dependencies

also pin: commits rust packages with 270 cargo-depends

nia Guilty!
Although, the result is a single binary without external runtime dependencies.

@nia Nice 🙂
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-changes/2021/02/26/msg229859.html