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by Michael Uplawski
Tue Mar 10, 2026 10:37 am
Forum: SoftMaker Fonts
Topic: [woff2/ttf] Round trip brotli compress & uncompress
Replies: 3
Views: 508

Re: [woff2/ttf] Round trip brotli compress & uncompress


For the time being, online converters and the woff-tools available for Debian make me gain 100K on a TrueType font. There are two things to retain here:
1.) 100K is not much on the Web. Almost nothing compared to the other resources that people are used to share, nowadays.
2.) There “appears to be ...
by Michael Uplawski
Sun Mar 08, 2026 9:58 am
Forum: SoftMaker Fonts
Topic: [woff2/ttf] Round trip brotli compress & uncompress
Replies: 3
Views: 508

Re: [woff2/ttf] Round trip brotli compress & uncompress


A tool like FontForge would be able to tell you that since it logs all issues and errors contained on the font file and it provides the required tools to fix most, if not all issues. I could also be used to do the conversion. Just keep in mind that the font licencie must allow you to manipulate ...
by Michael Uplawski
Wed Mar 04, 2026 11:47 am
Forum: SoftMaker Fonts
Topic: [woff2/ttf] Round trip brotli compress & uncompress
Replies: 3
Views: 508

[woff2/ttf] Round trip brotli compress & uncompress

What are the implications and cosiderations if I use a brotli tool to compress, then decompress a font file, first to WOFF2 , then back to ttf ?

My gained advantage is obvious. You just look at the files.
Licenses are unharmed by the proces AFAIS . Is there anything else that could prevent me ...
by Michael Uplawski
Sat Feb 21, 2026 8:06 am
Forum: Water Cooler
Topic: [Linux] Generate Documentation quickly
Replies: 1
Views: 40598

Re: [Linux] Generate Documentation quickly

Wow.
Until today, this 1-article thread had been opened over 39.000 times.
Challenge: Provide a way to convert TextMaker TMDX to reStructuredText.
My part of the endeavor is the presentation of a procedure for AbiWord:
https://www.uplawski.eu/software/doc/index.html#wpman

:mrgreen:
by Michael Uplawski
Sat Feb 21, 2026 7:19 am
Forum: FreeOffice 2024 for Linux (General)
Topic: Procedure for completely uninstall FreeOffice 2024
Replies: 4
Views: 44168

Re: Procedure for completely uninstall FreeOffice 2024

Now that you know how to install and uninstall stuff,
you can also just go ahead and read the documentation. Lots of it.
by Michael Uplawski
Sat Feb 21, 2026 7:12 am
Forum: Water Cooler
Topic: SQL Error 1040
Replies: 2
Views: 448

Re: SQL Error 1040

While “tech” evokes technology, I would not have expected you to be here before 7 o'clock.

But you sure encounter less traffic at that hour on the Erlanger Straße. :thumbsup:
by Michael Uplawski
Sat Feb 21, 2026 6:24 am
Forum: Water Cooler
Topic: SQL Error 1040
Replies: 2
Views: 448

SQL Error 1040

Good morning

Searching the forum, I get a lot of “Too Many Request” Errors upon loading a page in arbitrary locations and upon doing anything from search to opening an article, modifying user-settings to logging in. It says General Error, SQL Error and 1040.

JFYI.
by Michael Uplawski
Mon Feb 02, 2026 7:56 am
Forum: Water Cooler
Topic: [Linux] Generate Documentation quickly
Replies: 1
Views: 40598

[Linux] Generate Documentation quickly

Good morning

I describe a way to generate HTML, man-pages and PDF-files from 1 reStructuredText (raw text) document.

Wanting to use only readily available software, I had to accustom to these, and as nobody seems to be interested in too much interoperability, shell-scripting becomes an integral ...
by Michael Uplawski
Sat Oct 18, 2025 10:27 am
Forum: Water Cooler
Topic: PDF/UA
Replies: 2
Views: 76022

Re: PDF/UA

AFAIS, PDF/UA is based on PDF 2.0 and standardization is still in progress.
by Michael Uplawski
Thu Sep 25, 2025 8:26 pm
Forum: FreeOffice 2024 for Linux (General)
Topic: Google Drive
Replies: 1
Views: 20125

Re: Google Drive

The comparison with the commercial version on
https://www.softmaker.com/en/discover-s ... comparison
does not mention Google Drive or anything “cloud”. I venture however, that FreeOffice is limited in this respect (and am happy with that).
by Michael Uplawski
Thu Sep 18, 2025 7:17 am
Forum: FreeOffice 2024 for Linux (General)
Topic: Procedure for completely uninstall FreeOffice 2024
Replies: 4
Views: 44168

Re: Procedure for completely uninstall FreeOffice 2024

Would “The Ultimate Thread-Stopper” be an acceptable user-name in this forum?
by Michael Uplawski
Mon Sep 08, 2025 5:43 pm
Forum: FreeOffice 2024 for Linux (General)
Topic: Procedure for completely uninstall FreeOffice 2024
Replies: 4
Views: 44168

Re: Procedure for completely uninstall FreeOffice 2024


Hello, can somebody please point me to a place where I can find a detaled procedure on how to completely remove FreeOffice 2024 from Linx Mint, including all leftovers removal ?


if you have followed the installations instructions on the SoftMaker Web-Site, then to uninstall freeoffice-2024, do ...
by Michael Uplawski
Wed Sep 03, 2025 6:31 pm
Forum: SoftMaker Fonts
Topic: Web fonts?
Replies: 2
Views: 124966

Re: Web fonts?

So ... what are they and how can I learn how, when, and where to use them?

Thank you.


Web-Fonts contain licensing information. They resolve a dilemma when companies who sell copyrighted fonts want to allow their uses on exchangable Media that require that part – or all – of a font be included ...
by Michael Uplawski
Mon Aug 04, 2025 5:54 pm
Forum: FreeOffice 2024 for Linux (General)
Topic: Printing from Linux
Replies: 1
Views: 26615

Re: Printing from Linux


I have installed the freeoffice on Linux mint. But I cannot print the document from any of the product of freeoffice. But I can print from Libreoffice and other pdf documents from the same system.
... which means, there is hope ! :)

Whenever I am giving the print command it gets cancelled. I ...
by Michael Uplawski
Sat Aug 02, 2025 1:55 am
Forum: FreeOffice 2024 for Windows (General)
Topic: FreeOffice is going under my taskbar at the top of my screen.
Replies: 2
Views: 41487

Re: FreeOffice is going under my taskbar at the top of my screen.

TheBlasterMaster wrote: Tue Jul 22, 2025 9:02 pm I don't want to hide my taskbar. I just want to stop at the taskbar like all other programs.
Do Alt-F10 and Alt-F11 function the same way in Windows as they do with – other – operating systems?

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