Re: Creating PDF/A from LaTeX source and from existing PDF

On 4/7/24 11:10, Stefan Monnier wrote: This might qualify as a bug in your MUA (it can make sense to require a small font for some parts of the message, but it seems this style applies to the whole message, which makes no sense), tho maybe it's due to some particularity of your configuration, o

Re: Creating PDF/A from LaTeX source and from existing PDF

Hi Richard, I don't see any problem because I'm reading this mailing-list from a MUA that's mostly text-only and doesn't try to use variable-size fonts, but looking at the HTML you send I see: > style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"> repeated several times. I have no i

Re: Installing gitlab on sid

On 7/3/2024 9:23 AM, Lucio Crusca wrote: Il 03/07/24 13:48, Jeff Pang ha scritto: maybe you can use rbenv to install the required ruby toolkit? I'm afraid that's not the point. I assume that # apt-get install gitlab should just work out of the box, or there is a problem, either on my pa

Re: GUI-Login on bookworm-VM in a cloud

Christoph, Not sure if this is relevant or not, sadly probably not useful. https://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Qemu/KVM_Virtual_Machines https://www.linux-kvm.org/page/VMchannel_Requirements https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/vi

small font (was: Re: Creating PDF/A from LaTeX source and from existing PDF)

I am in doubts what is more rude: On 04/07/2024 04:02, Richard wrote: Please stop using such a dinky font. There are plenty of old farts trying to read this list. - writing this before an attempt to hijack the thread using an already discussed question, Tell that to your mail progra

Re: Creating PDF/A from LaTeX source and from existing PDF

On 04/07/2024 04:49, Greg Marks wrote: $gs -dQUIET -dUseCIEColor -sProcessColorModel=DeviceCMYK -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dPDFACompatibilityPolicy=1 -dCompressFonts=true -dSubsetFonts=true -sFONTPATH=/usr/share/fonts/ -o new.pdf old.pdf [...] The object number and generation number shall be sep

Re: GUI-Login on bookworm-VM in a cloud

Christoph, I do not have access to OpenNebula with which I could test. I do have access to Virt-Manager and so I built up a Virtual Machine of Bookworm (Debian 12) with KDE so that I would have the sddm display manger. Then I set the "graphics type" to VNC, but I could not start the VM until I

Re: Apt configuration - As Stable As Possible

Hey, Thank you for your reply Sven, and sorry for the belated response. Here is my setup now: sources.list ``` # stable deb https://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm main contrib non-free-firmware non-free deb-src https://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm main contrib non-free-firmware non-fr

Re: nouveau on old NV GPUs (was: NVidia 340 video driver in Bookworm?)

On Wed, Jul 03, 2024 at 11:29:43AM -0700, Van Snyder wrote: > On Wed, 2024-07-03 at 08:03 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > Resolve never to buy Nvidia again :) > > 1) On my brother's antique Dell Vostro 1700 laptop, the NVidia G68M > (GeForce 8400M GS) is soldered to the motherboard. > As abo

Re: Creating PDF/A from LaTeX source and from existing PDF

> Now, for just random PDFs, this is a bit more tricky, but you can do so > with ghostscript. Now, this sadly doesn't have such a great guide, but > something like this should do the trick, though that's only PDF/A-1 for all > I can tell. If your contractor needs a different version, you'll have to

Re: Re: nouveau on old NV GPUs (was: NVidia 340 video driver in Bookworm?)

Hi van Snyder, I believe I got a solution. However, you may not be happy with it, but maybe it will work. I am running the kernel 6.7.12+bpo-amd64 on my system. This is a backport kernel, but it might also work with other kernels, too. You also need to install the build environment, the eas

Re: Creating PDF/A from LaTeX source and from existing PDF

Well, guess what, I haven't done anything to change the way messages look. The only settings I ever change is how they are displayed to me. And never has anyone ever had an issue with that, in many years. Probably because other people are just not using unusable software. And quite frankly, punishi

Re: Random freezing on GNOME with AMDGPU

I don't even know if I can answer that. As Debian's firmware even in sid is ancient I'm using the ones from kernel.org, so the old firmware can't really be the issue like the gitlab entry suggests. But my issue always was that it only happened when I least expected it. It never was reproducible by

Re: Creating PDF/A from LaTeX source and from existing PDF

On Wed, Jul 03, 2024 at 23:02:16 +0200, Richard wrote: > > > > Please stop using such a dinky font. There are plenty of old farts trying > > to read this list. > > Tell that to your mail program. If it chooses to show you the mail that > way, don't blame me. Everything needed to display it any way

Re: Creating PDF/A from LaTeX source and from existing PDF

> > Please stop using such a dinky font. There are plenty of old farts trying > to read this list. Tell that to your mail program. If it chooses to show you the mail that way, don't blame me. Everything needed to display it any way you want is there, it just needs to be used. Thunderbird can defin

Re: Creating PDF/A from LaTeX source and from existing PDF

On Wed, 2024-07-03 at 15:31 -0400, e...@gmx.us wrote: > On 7/3/24 15:20, Van Snyder wrote: > > On Wed, 2024-07-03 at 18:38 +0200, Richard wrote: > > > For anything further, you'll have to research yourself as > > > ghostscript > > > is very complex but used by many people. > > > > Please stop usin

Re: nouveau on old NV GPUs

On 4/7/24 02:29, Van Snyder wrote: On Wed, 2024-07-03 at 08:03 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: Resolve never to buy Nvidia again :) 1) On my brother's antique Dell Vostro 1700 laptop, the NVidia G68M (GeForce 8400M GS) is soldered to the motherboard. 2)I'm running NVidia in two desktops bec

Re: Random freezing on GNOME with AMDGPU

On Wed Jul 3 11:56:12 2024 Greg Marks wrote: > I'm not sure if this is related, but a couple years ago I had multiple > computer freezes possibly caused by nouveau. The screen froze; the > keyboard and mouse were unresponsive. (If I remember correctly, the > mouse pointer could be moved aroun

Re: Creating PDF/A from LaTeX source and from existing PDF

On 7/3/24 15:20, Van Snyder wrote: On Wed, 2024-07-03 at 18:38 +0200, Richard wrote: For anything further, you'll have to research yourself as ghostscript is very complex but used by many people. Please stop using such a dinky font. That's what ctrl-shift-+ is for.

Re: Creating PDF/A from LaTeX source and from existing PDF

On Wed, 2024-07-03 at 18:38 +0200, Richard wrote: > For anything further, you'll have to research yourself as ghostscript > is very complex but used by many people. Please stop using such a dinky font. There are plenty of old farts trying to read this list. Can ghostscript convert a PDF generate

Re: nouveau on old NV GPUs (was: NVidia 340 video driver in Bookworm?)

On Wed, 2024-07-03 at 08:03 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > Resolve never to buy Nvidia again :) 1) On my brother's antique Dell Vostro 1700 laptop, the NVidia G68M (GeForce 8400M GS) is soldered to the motherboard. 2)I'm running NVidia in two desktops because my erstwhile SA gave them to me wh

Re: Creating PDF/A from LaTeX source and from existing PDF

>From LaTeX, this is quite simple, there's a package for that - as for pretty much everything in the LaTeX world. Googling for just like 10 sec could have given you this great guide: https://webpages.tuni.fi/latex/pdfa-guide.pdf Now, for just random PDFs, this is a bit more tricky, but you can do

Re: Creating PDF/A from LaTeX source and from existing PDF

On Wed, Jul 03, 2024 at 11:05:59AM -0400, Henning Follmann wrote: > On Wed, Jul 03, 2024 at 03:36:17PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > > Uh-oh. We set the standards, but won't tell you what they are. > > But they did! They say PDF/A. But you have a point that this maybe is > not enough. W

Re: 6.1.0: NVME drive goes offline randomly even with: nvme_core.default_ps_max_latency_us=0 pcie_aspm=off

On Tue, Jul 2, 2024 at 5:17 AM Dmitrii Odintcov wrote: > > Hi, > > > Just had it happen to me again - on boot this time - with the > recommended `nvme_core.default_ps_max_latency_us=0 pcie_aspm=off`. > > Worth noting that it's only happening with one of two SSDs I have > installed - the other bein

Re: Creating PDF/A from LaTeX source and from existing PDF

On Wed, Jul 03, 2024 at 01:06:56PM +, Ceppo wrote: > I wrote a report with LaTeX, and afterwards discovered it must be > PDF/A-compliant - which wasn't. I found the pdfx LaTeX package and followed > its > instructions, thus obtaining a file that should be PDF/A and pdfinfo > identifies > as s

Re: Installing gitlab on sid

Il 03/07/24 16:46, Henning Follmann ha scritto: The error message is very transparent about this: "...if you are using the unstable ..." You are absolutely right. But I never stopped by to read that message and it's the first time in years of sid (mixed with testing and stable) that this t

Re: Creating PDF/A from LaTeX source and from existing PDF

On Wed, Jul 03, 2024 at 03:36:17PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Jul 03, 2024 at 01:06:56PM +, Ceppo wrote: > > I wrote a report with LaTeX, and afterwards discovered it must be > > PDF/A-compliant - which wasn't. I found the pdfx LaTeX package and followed > > its > > instructions,

Re: Installing gitlab on sid

On Wed, 3 Jul 2024 12:24:16 +0200 Lucio Crusca wrote: Hello Lucio, >Am I doing anything wrong or should I file a bug report? Look at the package page, then developer page for gitlab and then for its dependencies. You'll find that ruby-sidekiq has yet to hit sid - it's still in experimental. N

Re: Installing gitlab on sid

On Wed, Jul 03, 2024 at 04:23:55PM +0200, Lucio Crusca wrote: > Il 03/07/24 13:48, Jeff Pang ha scritto: > > > > maybe you can use rbenv to install the required ruby toolkit? > > > > I'm afraid that's not the point. I assume that > > # apt-get install gitlab > > should just work out of the box

Re: Random freezing on GNOME with AMDGPU

If it is of any interest... Two of us are using AMDGPU for Radeon RX 7700 (one computer) and RX 6600 (four computers). Two computers have XFCE the other have KDE (no Gnome). The Radeon RX 7700 runs Arch Linux, the other Debian 12 (Bookworm), all kept up to date. A while ago we had a few lock u

Re: Installing gitlab on sid

Lucio Crusca wrote: > Il 03/07/24 13:48, Jeff Pang ha scritto: > > > > maybe you can use rbenv to install the required ruby toolkit? > > > > I'm afraid that's not the point. I assume that > > # apt-get install gitlab > > should just work out of the box, or there is a problem, either on my par

Re: Installing gitlab on sid

Il 03/07/24 13:48, Jeff Pang ha scritto: maybe you can use rbenv to install the required ruby toolkit? I'm afraid that's not the point. I assume that # apt-get install gitlab should just work out of the box, or there is a problem, either on my part, or in the gitlab package itself. As of

Re: Creating PDF/A from LaTeX source and from existing PDF

On 7/3/24 09:06, Ceppo wrote: I wrote a report with LaTeX, and afterwards discovered it must be PDF/A-compliant - which wasn't. I found the pdfx LaTeX package and followed its instructions, thus obtaining a file that should be PDF/A and pdfinfo identifies as such, but my employer's upload form th

Re: Creating PDF/A from LaTeX source and from existing PDF

On Wed, Jul 03, 2024 at 01:06:56PM +, Ceppo wrote: > I wrote a report with LaTeX, and afterwards discovered it must be > PDF/A-compliant - which wasn't. I found the pdfx LaTeX package and followed > its > instructions, thus obtaining a file that should be PDF/A and pdfinfo > identifies > as s

Re: Random freezing on GNOME with AMDGPU

On 02/07/24 at 22:23, Van Snyder wrote: I updated another computer with an NVidia Quadro graphics card. NVidia says the Debian nvidia-driver package works -- but it's not part of the default net-install, and apt-get refuses to install it. And it refuses to install the nvidia-tesla drivers. I ga

Creating PDF/A from LaTeX source and from existing PDF

I wrote a report with LaTeX, and afterwards discovered it must be PDF/A-compliant - which wasn't. I found the pdfx LaTeX package and followed its instructions, thus obtaining a file that should be PDF/A and pdfinfo identifies as such, but my employer's upload form thinks isn't. Is pdfinfo reliable

Re: Installing gitlab on sid

maybe you can use rbenv to install the required ruby toolkit? I'm trying to install gitlab from sid, but it requires ruby-sidekiq>=7~, which is not available in sid (there's only 6.5.12 available). -- Jeff Pang j...@simplemail.co.in

Re: Random freezing on GNOME with AMDGPU

On 2024-07-03 Wed 19:31 UTC+0800, Richard said: Have the same issue, though it's pretty much impossible to reproduce it reliably. But it seems to be a general issue with the AMDGPU driver in Linux 6.1+: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=292673&p=2

Re: Random freezing on GNOME with AMDGPU

Have the same issue, though it's pretty much impossible to reproduce it reliably. But it seems to be a general issue with the AMDGPU driver in Linux 6.1+: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=292673&p=2 It also seems to already have an official tracker: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd

Re: FAQs for t64?

Harald Dunkel wrote: > Hi folks, > > Hopefully I wasn't too blind to see, but I would suggest to > collect some FAQs about the t64 migration to early address users' > concerns. ? i've not noticed any issues to be concerned about, but i'm also not using any obscure packages that are out of the

Installing gitlab on sid

I'm trying to install gitlab from sid, but it requires ruby-sidekiq>=7~, which is not available in sid (there's only 6.5.12 available). Am I doing anything wrong or should I file a bug report?

Re: nouveau on old NV GPUs (was: NVidia 340 video driver in Bookworm?)

On Wed, Jul 03, 2024 at 02:16:20AM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Van Snyder composed on 2024-06-07 13:29 (UTC-0700): > > > The messages I found said "Support for it ended in 2019. Use nouveau." > This is support from Nvidia, with official Nvidia proprietary drivers > > been able to install the dr

Re: GUI-Login on bookworm-VM in a cloud

Hello, > My first thoughts were firewall issues. It is not a connection problem. When I open a browser window to vnc connect to the VM, I can even see the mouse pointer, what shows that the VM Xorg server is still running, and sshing to the VM and doing a ps confirms that. > > > > However, afte