Excalidraw is a Virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn like diagrams.
It’s easy to create nice looking drawings.
It’s available Online or we can self-host or even use it as one of the unofficial extension into VScode / VScodium
As drawing is stored as JSON, it’s also convenient to use it inside a git repo.
There are also some nice features like creating charts or using existing shared libraries.
Mindmap softwares are great to organize ideas.
Minder from Trevor Williams combine everything I need/like:
git )There is a Debian/Ubuntu package we can install with apt-get install but this one is outdated, so better to install it another way like:
sudo apt install meson valac libmarkdown2-dev libgee-0.8-dev libgranite-dev libarchive-dev libgtksourceview-3.0-dev
git clone https://github.com/phase1geo/Minder.git
cd Minder
sudo ./app install
From time to time you may be requested to add your “hand written” signature to all pages of a document or contract.
But printing / signing / scanning every pages of a possibly long document is obviously not the best option.
👉 convert -list font
Font: Arista-Signature
family: Arista Signature
glyphs: /home/yannick/.local/share/fonts/Arista Signature.ttf
Font: Autograf-PERSONAL-USE-ONLY
family: Autograf PERSONAL USE ONLY
glyphs: /home/yannick/.local/share/fonts/Autograf_PersonalUseOnly.ttf
I’m using convert command from imagemagick software
👉 convert -background transparent -rotate -10 -fill darkblue -font Arista-Signature -size 300x200 -gravity center 'caption:AB' out.pdf
PdfJam tool is used for this purpose
The pdfjam package makes available the
pdfjamshell script that provides a simple interface to much of the functionality of the excellent pdfpages package (by Andreas Matthias) for LaTeXThe
pdfjamscript takes one or more PDF files (and/or JPG/PNG graphics files) as input, and produces one or more PDF files as output. It is useful for joining files together, selecting pages, reducing several source pages onto one output page, etc., etc.
👉 sudo apt-get install texlive-extra-utils
👉 dpkg -L texlive-extra-utils | grep bin | grep jam
/usr/bin/pdfjam
--paper PAPERSPEC (or simply --PAPERSPEC) Specify a LaTeX paper size, for example '--paper a4paper' or simply '--a4paper' for ISO A4 paper. --scale 0.7 (to scale all input pages to 70% size) --offset '1cm 0.5cm' (to offset all pages -- note the quotes!)
👉 pdfjam --paper 'a4paper' --scale 0.2 --offset '7cm -12cm' signature.pdf
We have a page ready to be “merged” with existing pages of the document to sign.
This Debian Pdf will be our example document to add our signature into.
👉 wget https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install.pdf.fr
👉 file install.pdf.fr
install.pdf.fr: PDF document, version 1.5
👉 mv install.pdf.fr debian.pdf
To “merge” we are using pdftk
pdftk - A handy tool for manipulating PDF
👉 sudo apt install pdftk
👉 pdftk debian.pdf stamp signature-pdfjam.pdf output combined.pdf
stamp <stamp PDF filename | - | PROMPT>
This behaves just like the background operation except it overlays the stamp PDF page on top of the input PDF document’s pages. This works best if the stamp PDF page has a transparent background.
The signature is added to all pages of the document.
In case only few specific pages needs to have the signature.
👉 pdftk debian.pdf cat 35 output page35.pdf
👉 pdftk page35.pdf stamp signature-pdfjam.pdf output signedpage35.pdf
👉 pdftk A=debian.pdf B=signedpage35.pdf cat A1-34 B A36-end output signed-onlypage35.pdf
With the method above, the document will look as clean as it was before, lines can still be selected like into the original document, so recipient will be able to notice it’s not a “real” signature added on a scanned document.
Most people will not care, but in case some recipients care about it, we can add an extra step.
👉 convert -density 130 signedpage35.pdf -rotate 0.33 -attenuate 0.15 +noise Multiplicative -colorspace Gray scanned-page35.pdf
This will make the document “not perfect” with some gray lines on the side and kind blurry like it could be with a scan process.
For large documents this may require to increase memory limit of ImageMagic.
👉 identify -list resource
Resource limits:
Width: 16KP
Height: 16KP
List length: 18.446744EP
Area: 128MP
Memory: 256MiB
Map: 512MiB
Disk: 1GiB
File: 768
Thread: 4
Throttle: 0
Time: unlimited
👉 sudo vi /etc/ImageMagic-6/policy.xml
<policy domain="resource" name="memory" value="256MiB"/>
It’s not common I have to write some “professional” looking letters, but it happen from time to time, like to cancel some service subscription.
As for years now I prefer to write in Markdown, I wanted something that could convert my markdown content to a nice looking Pdf output.
Aaron Wolen and Andrew Dunning are sharing on Github a template we can customize to our needs.
👉 git clone https://github.com/aaronwolen/pandoc-letter
👉 cd pandoc-letter/
👉 tree
.
├── Dockerfile
├── example
│ ├── letterhead.pdf
│ ├── letter.md
│ ├── letter.pdf
│ └── signature.pdf
├── LICENSE
├── README.md
└── template-letter.tex
It includes by default Aaron signature we need to modify
👉 convert -list font
Font: Arista-Signature
family: Arista Signature
glyphs: /home/yannick/.local/share/fonts/Arista Signature.ttf
Font: Autograf-PERSONAL-USE-ONLY
family: Autograf PERSONAL USE ONLY
glyphs: /home/yannick/.local/share/fonts/Autograf_PersonalUseOnly.ttf
I’m using convert command from imagemagick software
👉 convert -background transparent -rotate -2 -fill darkblue -font Arista-Signature -size 500x200 -gravity center 'caption:Firstname Lastname' out.pdf
👉 convert -background transparent -rotate -2 -fill darkblue -font Autograf-PERSONAL-USE-ONLY -size 900x200 -gravity center 'caption:Firstname Lastname' out.pdf
Edit template-letter.tex if required
\usepackage[french]{babel}
\newmdenv[rightline=true,bottomline=false,topline=false,linewidth=3pt,linecolor=greyborder,skipabove=\parskip]{blockquote}
Write your letter.md file from the one into the example/ folder
---
author:
- Firstname Lastname
- My Organization
opening: To whom it may concern,
closing: Sincerely,
date:
subject: 'Objet: **Résiliation abonnement** '
address:
- Recipient adress
- 123 Street Rd
- Chicago, IL
return-address:
- My Home
- 456 Road St.
- Paris
cc:
encl:
ps: |
fontfamily: mathpazo
fontsize: 12pt
geometry: margin=1in
blockquote: true
#letterhead: example/letterhead.pdf
signature: signature1.pdf
signature-before: -5ex
signature-after: 1ex
#signature-width: 30ex
signature-width: 40ex
closing-indentation: 50pt
links-as-notes: true
colorlinks: true
...
On plaisante, on plaisante… On construit un barrage, après on lance de la caillasse de l'autre côté de la rivière pour faire croire aux autres qu'on a traversé dans l'autre sens, une fois qu'ils sont au milieu, on casse le barrage et on les noie.
- De toute façon le chevalier de Provence il faudrait déjà mettre la main dessus.
- Y en a marre de se comporter comme des sagouins avec tout le monde sous prétexte qu’on a des responsabilités.
- Vous avez dit que ça devait être vexant! Ben voilà! Vous êtes vexé!
> A genoux, pas à genoux c’est une chose...
> Enfin en attendant je vous donne pas tout notre or.
Mais arrêtez bon sang! C’est la salle du trône. Il ferait beau voir que je puisse pas y rentrer! Ben je suis pas mystérieux moi! J’suis même pas solitaire.
Use pandoc to create the PDF
👉 sudo apt install pandoc
👉 pandoc --template=template-letter.tex example/letter.md -o myletter.pdf
Let the date empty into the .md so it will be automatically set.
Using \usepackage[french]{babel} you can notice the date is in French language which may require sudo apt-get install texlive-lang-french texlive-extra-utils
J’ai pris un .png par exemple sur IconArchive.
(Mes 2 lecteurs, partagez vos sources d’icônes pour bannière en commentaires)
Je ne suis plus trop sûr de ce qu’il faut exactement mais probablement
$ sudo apt-get install imagemagick texinfo openjdk-7-jdk coreutils perl git
util-say pour convertir les images en “texte”$ git clone https://github.com/maandree/util-say.git
$ ./util-say/img2ponysay dilbert.png > dilbert.txt
Error: Unable to access jarfile ./util-say/util-say.jar
$ cd util-say && make && cd ..
$ ./util-say/img2ponysay dilbert.png > dilbert.txt
$ cat dilbert.txt
ponysay a rajouté les lignes avec les $ qu’il faut virer dans notre casSuppression de la ligne qui contient “balloon”:
$ sed '/balloon/d' dilbert.txt
Suppression des lignes avec les $:
$ sed s/\\$\\\\\\$//g dilbert.txt
Suppression des 5 premiers caractères de chaque ligne pour décaller l’image vers la gauche:
$ sed 's/^.\{5\}//g' dilbert.txt
Suppression des 3 premières lignes:
$ sed 1,3d dilbert.txt
Donc la ligne globale:
$ sed '/balloon/d' dilbert.txt \
| sed s/\\$\\\\\\$//g \
| sed 's/^.\{5\}//g' \
| sed 1,3d > dilbert_cleaned.txt
On édite le script ci-dessous pour modifier la police, les couleurs, et toutes les infos que l’on souhaite.
#!/bin/bash
NAME="Server"
OUT="/tmp/$NAME"
IP_PRV=""
IP_NAT=""
IP_PUB="1.2.3.4"
SERVICE="XXXX Paris"
HD="1 x 50GB"
echo "" > $OUT
echo "" >> $OUT
echo "" >> $OUT
toilet -f Graffiti $NAME | lolcat -f -F 0.3 >> $OUT
cecho () {
local _color=$1; shift
echo -ne "$(tput setaf $_color)$@$(tput sgr0)"
}
black=0; red=1; green=2; yellow=3; blue=4; pink=5; cyan=6; white=7;
echo "" >> $OUT
#cecho $white "IP Prv: " >> $OUT
#echo "$IP_PRV" | toilet -f term | lolcat -f -F 0.4 >> $OUT
#cecho $white "IP NAT: " >> $OUT
#echo "$IP_NAT" | toilet -f term | lolcat -f -F 0.4 >> $OUT
cecho $white "IP Pub: " >> $OUT
echo "$IP_PUB" | toilet -f term | lolcat -f -F 0.4 >> $OUT
cecho $white "Service: " >> $OUT
echo "$SERVICE" | toilet -f term | lolcat -f -F 0.4 >> $OUT
cecho $white "Disks: " >> $OUT
echo "$HD" | toilet -f term | lolcat -f -F 0.4 >> $OUT
cat $OUT
echo ""
echo ""
echo "File output into $OUT"
On peut bien entendu modifier le script pour récupérer les infos automatiquement du serveur et ne pas avoir a modifier les valeurs à la main.
$ sudo apt-get install toilet lolcat
Allez voir le man de chaque commande pour les options.
$ ./ip.sh
A chaque execution, les couleurs seront un peu différentes
$ paste dilbert_cleaned.txt /tmp/Server > server.motd
On copie le fichier server.motd dans /etc/motd du serveur
Vérifier dans le /etc/ssh/sshd_config que vous avez bien la ligne PrintMotd yes