Nautilus scripts are a versatile way to automate daily tasks such as reducing PDF sizes, converting pictures to PDFs, adding notes to documents, etc.
The below files help creating PDFs, with varying degrees of compression.
"Normal" is a compression to 300dpi, which will still allow the PDF to be printed and is the best choice in most cases. When a higher compression level is needed, the "Smaller" and "Smallest" scripts can be useful.
First run:
mkdir .local/share/nautilus/scripts/
Then create the 3 files:
nano .local/share/nautilus/scripts/PDF\ Resize\ Normal
#!/bin/bash
echo -e "$NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_SELECTED_FILE_PATHS" | xargs -i gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/printer -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile="{}"_min.pdf "{}"
nano .local/share/nautilus/scripts/PDF\ Resize\ Smaller
#!/bin/bash
echo -e "$NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_SELECTED_FILE_PATHS" | xargs -i gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/ebook -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile="{}"_min.pdf "{}"
nano .local/share/nautilus/scripts/PDF\ Resize\ Smallest
#!/bin/bash
echo -e "$NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_SELECTED_FILE_PATHS" | xargs -i gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/screen -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile="{}"_min.pdf "{}"
Lastly, make the files executable.
chmod +x .local/share/nautilus/scripts/*
Now, the three scripts shouldbe available to you from the context menu on any file in your nautuilus file browser in GNOME.
This is post is part of a series of posts of creative writing.
Making space, for positive actions, for positive feelings. Making space for being vulnerable. For being a victimized, hurt, oppressed, or just making space to acknowledge: I’m misunderstood. Life is hard, and life is beautiful at the same time. By making space, we can stop the chase. Stop the heavy expectations on yourself. To be present, to acknowledge and respect however we feel. Despair, happiness, tiredness, being in love. Acknowledging and accepting just how conflicting all of this is, can sometimes help feeling grounded and is building space.
Ask yourself: Are your actions giving space, or taking away space? War, oppression, judgment: Taking space away. Listening, being vulnerable, trusting: Giving space. With more space, comes more freedom. Come fresh thoughts, ideas, plans and actions. If these actions give even more space, it starts to get real good. If we can admit and respect the complexity of life, and yet make some space to breathe and be - we are space loving and space giving humans.
It is hard to do. So out goes my deep respect for people who have made space. Space to trust themselves. Space to listen and be heard. Space to take risks. Space for others. Space for themselves.
With a recent Debian upgrade came an upgrade to XDEBUG, a software that can be used for optimizing, debugging and profiling code. I use especially the profiling function, that in combination with kcachegrind shows how long the code is spending on each function, which in turn helps me decide how much time to spend optimizing which function.
Prerequisites for this HowTo are Debian 11 with an Apache 2 Webserver, PHP 7.4.
Install XDEBUG
apt install php-xdebug
Edit the confinguration file
nano /etc/php/*/mods-available/xdebug.ini
Paste the following contents if you want the cachegrind files to appear under /xdebug on the server
[xdebug]
zend_extension=xdebug.so
xdebug.output_dir = "/xdebug"
xdebug.profiler_enable_trigger = true
#leave empty if you do not want to specify the value
#xdebug.trigger_value = "1"
xdebug.mode = profile
xdebug.start_with_request = trigger
Housekeeping
Restart the server, create the necessary directories.
mkdir /xdebug
chmod 777 /xdebug
service apache2 restart
Profiling
Afterwards, you can add a (GET or POST) parameter to your request to initiate the profiling:
https://ursrig.com/?XDEBUG_PROFILE=true
With the new version this also works:
https://ursrig.com/?XDEBUG_TRIGGER
