Tag: PDFs

Making Books with Latex…

A while ago I took a course and the vast majority of the useful information was presented in powerpoints and source code comments (via Jupyter notebooks). With all the spare time that covid has provided me, I have been trying to revisit that course and with the help of some normal formal textbooks, make a …

Making Rulers and Grids in Postscript…

Recently I described a very simple technique of how one can calibrate their printer for accuracy when printing out postscript coded documents. Therefore, after one has fully calibrated their printer, accurate rulers and grids can be made pretty easily. There are a many reasons why someone would want to have printable rulers and grids: You …

Printer Calibration…

To start we should define calibration; from wikipedia: Calibration is the comparison of measurement values delivered by a device under test with those of a calibration standard of known accuracy.  Such a standard could be another measurement device of known accuracy, a device generating the quantity to be measured such as a voltage, a sound tone, …

PDF Calendar Making in Python

So I wanted to have a calendar on paper that I could put on my fridge and see how much time I’ve been wasting. I know that there are more than enough programs out there that can accomplish this task, however I still wanted to make one myself. I was a bit inspired by this …