{"id":71,"date":"2014-11-21T07:38:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T07:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sibha.online\/wprandom\/2014\/11\/21\/booklet-printing-and-the-spirit-of-ubuntu\/"},"modified":"2020-06-22T10:10:37","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T04:40:37","slug":"booklet-printing-and-the-spirit-of-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/2014\/11\/21\/booklet-printing-and-the-spirit-of-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"Booklet printing and The Spirit of Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"

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These days we tend to do more screen reading than traditional book reading. While it is okay to read blogs, news-feeds etc off the screen, certain materials like tutorials and how-tos need to be studied leisurely.<\/div>\n

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Taking printout on A4 sheets is ok, but it is still not so convenient. To have a good feel of reading, the material should be of book-size, with ample margin for binding and\u00a0 should be held open with a thumb or thumb and the little finger. I have always been loking for an app which can do booklet printing. The other day I found<\/a> just that.<\/div>\n
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You can just right click on a file and generate a booklet in a size of your choice. what’s more , you save a lot of paper.<\/div>\n
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There are many apps which only a minuscule few may want, and big IT companies don’t care. An open source software enthusiast, who needs such a feature, looks\u00a0 around, to see if it is available. If not available\u00a0 he proceeds to develop one, alone or with other like minded people.<\/p>\n

And once a facility is developed, the real fun is in freely sharing it with the whole world. That is the spirit of Ubuntu, a far cry from the software giants who toil hard to produce stuff people don’t need and toil harder to sell it to them at exorbitant prices.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  These days we tend to do more screen reading than traditional book reading. While it is okay to read blogs, news-feeds etc off the screen, certain materials like tutorials and how-tos need to be studied leisurely.   Taking printout on A4 sheets is ok, but it is still not so convenient. To have a … Continue reading “Booklet printing and The Spirit of Ubuntu”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1280,"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/1280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}