Monthly Archives: January 2009

Some xmgrace tips

Posted on January 30, 2009 by louic

Xmgrace is a very nice piece of software to create publication quality figures. Even better is that it stores your data and graph layout options as plain text (which is especially nice in combination with subversion or scripts to edit … Continue reading →

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Splitting a pdf-file under Linux

Posted on January 29, 2009 by louic

The pdftk command (pdf toolkit) can perform many operations on pdf files. One that I found useful is extracting certain pages from a pdf file. For example, to extract page 115-142 from input.pdf and save it as chapter5.pdf, the command … Continue reading →

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Free SMTP server using gmail

Posted on January 22, 2009 by louic

How to use a free SMTP server that is accessible from anywhere, using your gmail account? This may be useful if you are at a location where there is internet, but no (known) SMTP server as is the case for … Continue reading →

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