Attention conservation notice: This is a fix for a very niche problem. Unless your printer is eating certain character from your print job, you had best move on. The punchline is: flatten the PDF.
The printer at work, a Ricoh IM C6500, doesn’t get along well with me.
Sometimes, when printing a PDF it will garble the output and omit a lot of symbols.
It drops math symbols and particular kernings, in particular ff.
This makes it di icult to read papers.
The art of mixing code and documentation.
Recently, I wanted to read a scanned PDF on my Kobo. The white-on-black PDF was quite “bright” for my tastes as I usually read at night. The Kobo supports dark mode for epubs but it doesn’t seem to have a means of inverting the colour of PDFs natively. Moreover, I like to read things as amber-on-black. A bit of vibe-coding and fiddling around yielded the following terrible script to make a PDF “amber on black.”
Making LaTeX2HTML output look modern.
A write-up of a very rudimentary time tracking gizmo.
Back to work after the East Coast.
How to get all your kids photos from Lillio.
Language independent literate programming with noweb.
Testing out my new photo upload script.
Getting an email from an mbox.
After print-and-playing a game, I discovered a couple accidental games.
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