Monthly Archives: October 2021

Progress forward here. I was having a problem printing the 1st set of holes on the last page (keyward last)…fixed. It only was an issue on the last page. If I printed 50 pages…the holes printed properly on 49 pages. Sometimes you simply try something else. Which was how I solved the proceeding problem. I …

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Do people actually fall for these quizes? Where they say “almost no one can do well on this quiz”. Then procede to show a question that almost no one would get wrong. I guess we are expected to say “Oh yea! I must be pretty smart. If hardy no one can answer that”. I’ll show …

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Here’s a test PDF of what I’ve done…so far! It’s farther along than my Python program was at this stage. One big addition for this early stage are the holes. This is much more straight forward . The reportlab PDF program I used for Python was much harder to use. Because you had to create …

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Playing with this a little. At first I was having problems printing more than a few lines per page. Then I had problems with the padding around the text. However made some progress! Turns out they were both related. Problem was I found an example that was very strange if it intended to show you …

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I last talked about them here. Now this video about NFTs sounds like we’re on the same page. Glad to know I’m not alone.

Finally back to working with Go and importing packages. Successfully generated a simple PDF.

Codecs.Additional package repositories

Thanks to the article below I just learned about Snapshots.

So says this article.

BTW gnuCOBOL on OpenSuse was even easier to install than I mentioned before “sudo zypper install gnu-cobol”. Anyhoo this is what was running on OpenSuse for comparison to my manual Mint install.