Re: [CODE4LIB] Capturing Scroll Downs in an exchanged Gmail
Charles: are you using Firefox's built-in screenshot tool? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/take-screenshots-firefox ak - ander kierig Web Application Developer University of Minnesota Libraries https://www.lib.umn.edu they/them On 2023-09-26 at 17:22 (-0500) charles meyer wrote: My esteemed listmates, This is a very serious. Normally, in Firefox when I want to take a screenshot of all that I see as I scroll down the page I press Ctrl + Shift + K and then type in :screenshot --fullpage and it captures WYSIWYG in a PNG on to my hard drive. I try that with back and forth emails in Gmail but that doesn't work. If I want to capture all the emails exchanged with a person in a gmail account normally I press Reply or Forward I can capture all the back and forty. That doesn't work with this gmail exchange. I'vde taken to snapping photos wiht my cell phone of each screen as I screen down to capture the WYSIWYG. In Chrome and The Edge I can use that Screen Devouring icon which resembles a Pac Man as it bites along the screen from left to right and captures all the scrolling down as WYSIWYG but I must use FF in this case. Is there any Screen Devouring extension for FF? Thank you for your understanding, nonjudgmental help. Charles. Charlotte County Public Library
Re: [CODE4LIB] What manner of creature is LaTeX?
Some of my colleagues teach it in conjunction with our Software Carpentries stuff (but there's no formal Carpentries approved lesson yet). I have experimented with it for open scholarship publishing purposes. Frankly, the more I think about it, the less I think it is worth dealing with. Overleaf is nice, I guess, but very expensive. There are projects like Tectonic (https://tectonic-typesetting.github.io/) where they have taken a lot of the crud (for lack of a better word) and also dropped the kind of elitism that comes with knowing e.g. that it's la-tec and not latex. I suppose you could say it's 'LaTeX but for "normal" people.' I don't mean this to come across as a criticism of LaTeX users, just to relay the frustration some of us feel when dealing with it...some of my best friends use LaTeX... all best, ander ----- ander kierig Web Application Developer University of Minnesota Libraries https://www.lib.umn.edu they/them On 2023-07-18 at 10:32 (-0500) Dan Johnson wrote: Dear List, How do you all deal with LaTeX? The LaTeX Project describes it as a "high-quality typesetting system," but it *looks* similar to a few different software paradigms, and this makes it hard to figure out who on a university campus should be supporting it. For example, one could make the case that it's an advanced, low-level form of word processing, which should therefore be supported with training and problem solving by central IT, who cover Microsoft Word and Google Docs. But it's much more than WYSIWYG word processing, and support for IT would be a very heavy lift. So maybe instead you think of it as a markup system. In that case, perhaps it's the library's digital scholarship center that should be providing support. Yet, it's not really used for the purposes of scholarly annotation and digital presentation of primary sources that TEI is. Since it's used for creating beautifully-looking articles and books, perhaps it's a scholarly communication tool, and hence the schol comm division of the library should support it. But the biggest use case may be dissertation formatting, in which case perhaps a university's graduate school or office of research should take charge (especially if they provide a dissertation template). But then, the software is especially good at formatting mathematical notations, and indeed, the vast majority of dissertations submitted with LaTeX formatting come from the school of science, so perhaps it is scientific computing software. In that case, maybe the college of science's departmental IT units should bear the brunt of support. The final option, it seems to me, is to call it "just one of those very helpful things," like regex, that you won't see in any formal or informal learning environment, and so you have to figure it out on your own to be in the know. How do you all parcel this out? Best, Dan -- *Daniel Johnson, Ph.D.* *Interim Co-Director, Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship * *English; Digital Humanities**; and Film, Television, and Theatre * *Librarian* *University of Notre Dame* 250C Hesburgh Library Notre Dame, IN 46556 o: 574-631-3457 e: djohn...@nd.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2024 Hosting Vote Winner
congrats to our friends and Big Ten colleagues at UMich. Looking forward to finally getting to see Ann Arbor. ander \- ander kierig Application Development University of Minnesota Libraries [lib.umn.edu](https://www.lib.umn.edu) they/them On 2023-05-23 at 09:54 (-0500) Esmé Cowles wrote: Congratulations to the University of Michigan team — voting on Code4Lib 2024 hosting proposals wrapped up last night, and Michigan is the winner! We were lucky enough to have three great proposals this year, and I hope Minnesota and McMaster are up for consideration again next year. -Esmé — Esmé Cowles Asst. Director for Library IT Princeton University Library
Re: [CODE4LIB] Roku - TV - Over the Air
Dear Charles: IMHO, this is not an appropriate use of this list. Roku support is online at https://support.roku.com. Please don't send questions like this to a list with 4000 people on it. respectfully yours, ander kierig -- ander kierig Application Development University of Minnesota Libraries [lib.umn.edu](https://www.lib.umn.edu) they/them On 2022-09-22 at 09:13 (-0500) charles meyer wrote: Hi my esteemed listmates, We seem to generally broach more advanced tech questions than this but we have some patrons visiting with simpler needs. I was trying to help patrons locate any outdoor TV antenna or tower climbers who could help with their outdoor antennas but it seems they have all retired aso trying to receive over the air TV (as programs assert can be done with a TV antenna) is not available for a lot of areas. Just to experiment, I bought the best indoor antenna for my house and placed it on almost every square inch of evereye all in every room ang received about 4-5 TV stations, no local PBS just mostly 1960 TV shows. My thought was tey could buy a Roku ($50 Amazon, Walmart) and with a library hotspot connect that Roku to their digital TV (not analog even with a digital converter box) and then use the Roku device to downloads PBS and local TV stations via their hotspot. Some patrons need hand holding so once you plugin the Roku will it search for the hotspot and then you type in the hotspot name and password and the Roku connects to the net to download those TV stations? I hear the over the air signal are all going 4K soon so does that mean you need a particular Roku, not just any Roku. Thanks so much, Charles. Charles Meyer Charlotte County Public Library Port Charlotte, FL
Re: [CODE4LIB] ABBYY issue with duplicate pages
Erica: I've used Paperwork (https://openpaper.work/en/) in the past with good results. It's open source and runs on Linux and Windows. If you'd be interested in running a web application you might give some of these options a look (https://github.com/kba/awesome-ocr#ocr-gui) or maybe even look into a document management web application (https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#document-management) though the later might be overkill for your use case. Finally, if you're running a Mac somewhere and have money to spend, I cannot overstate how much I love DevonThink (https://www.devontechnologies.com/apps/devonthink) which has a server version and uses ABBYY on the backend. My quick test this morning suggests it doesn't have the issue you're describing. best, ak -- ander kierig Web Application Developer University of Minnesota Libraries [lib.umn.edu](https://www.lib.umn.edu) they/them On 2022-08-05 at 18:12 (-0500) Erica FINDLEY wrote: All, ABBYY has been a favorite program of mine for transforming batches of TIFF files into a PDF and extracting the text. However, I have recently run into this known issue <https://support.abbyy.com/hc/en-us/articles/360013874239-Each-page-is-duplicated-with-the-thumbnail-image-while-converting-TIFF-to-PDF-in-FineReader>even though each TIFF file is the same resolution. I opened a support ticket with ABBYY and their proposed resolution is for me to convert to another format (jpg) then to pdf. I do not like this for two reasons 1)it is time and resource consuming to do two transformations and 2) there is some image quality loss when doing this. This leaves me with two questions: 1. Has anyone been able to find a better workaround for this issue? 2. Does anyone have recommendations for another GUI based OCR program? My quick research is pointing to Tesseract, but since I work with volunteers I'd prefer a GUI based solution. Thanks! *Erica Findley (she/her)* *Systems & Metadata Librarian* *x80591* Multnomah County Library Isom Operations Center: Thu 8 am - 5 pm, Fri 1:30 pm - 5:30 pm Teleworking: Mon - Wed 8 am - 5 pm, Fri 8 am - 12 pm multcolib.org <http://www.multcolib.org/> My pronouns are she/her/hers
Re: [CODE4LIB] Downloading NON - YouTube videos
youtube-dl (or its more featureful fork [yt-dlp](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp)) might work. Or you could also check in your browser's developer tools (F12 on firefox), under the network tab, select media, and hit ctrl/command+shift+R. There might be a direct link to the video file in there if it's a simpler site. You could always ask if your friend might just share the file, too? ak -- ander kierig Web Application Developer University of Minnesota Libraries [lib.umn.edu](https://www.lib.umn.edu) they/them On 2022-08-05 at 13:07 (-0500) Carlos Ha wrote: Dear Mr Meyer and anyone else reading, I like to use JDownloader. While running, it will scan everything you copy (as in ctrl+c) and suggest downloading related files. So you might try copying the URL of your colleague's website, provided it is publicly accessible and JDownloader should add the video to its download queue. If you are comfortable with the command terminal, youtube-dl is similarly able to download videos from any place using the URL alone. I hope this was useful. Best, Carlos Hartmann Am Fr., 05.Aug..2022 um 20:02, charles meyer schrieb: My esteemed listmates, I use an older version of Firefox to download NON-YouTube and NON-Vimeo videos (instructional). But a trusted person has posted a 2 minute video on Loom and on her business Web site. I use ANT add-on with FF but it won't download her video either from her Website nor Loom. I also have Opera, Brave and Vivaldi installed. Does anyone use any of those browsers? If so, how do you download videos using those browsers? I have 2 YT Downloaders but they only download YT videos. I don't use The Edge nor Chrome. Thank you. Charles.
Re: [CODE4LIB] Adobe Acrobat Reader - Erasing
Charles: if you're using MacOS, you should be able to use Preview's redact feature: https://support.apple.com/guide/preview/annotate-a-pdf-prvw11580/11.0/mac/12.0 best, ander kierig -- ander kierig Web Application Developer University of Minnesota Libraries [lib.umn.edu](https://www.lib.umn.edu) they/them On 2022-07-13 at 09:06 (-0500) charles meyer wrote: Hi my esteemed listmates, A PDF document was emailed to me And I need to erase their name off it. In older Adobe Acrobat Reader you just clicked on the Eraser icon and erased. We now have the “new and improved” Reader and I Googled this and results said to click Tool and choose Erase. In mine when you click Tools you get all these options for a 7 day trial basis, including Edit. Is tee no way to erase for free in Adobe Acrobat Reader? If so, what free program do you use to erase in a PDF? Thank you! Charles.
