In our Linux system, If we have a large PDF file, we may want to reduce it’s size. We shall look at different ways to reduce PDF size or compress PDF files in Linux in this tutorial.

Let’s find out some Command Line and GUI methods to deal with this problem.

If you are looking to learn more about the world of photography, you have come to the right place. PetaPixel publishes in-depth articles into all kinds of subjects across various categories, from the mechanics of how cameras work to the latest technologies sweeping the world and Web. The goal of these articles is to introduce, teach, explain, and inspire.

Since 2002, Stolen Sharpie Revolution: a DIY Resource for Zines and Zine Culture has been the go-to guide for all things zine related. This little red book is stuffed with information about zines. Things you may know, stuff you don’t know and even stuff you didn’t know you didn’t know! Stolen Sharpie Revolution contains a cornucopia of information about zines and zine culture for everyone from the zine newbie to the experienced zinester to the academic researcher.

This is the 6th and latest edition of this book, published with Silver Sprocket in February 2020

Zine World: A Reader's Guide to the Underground Press was a zine review zine. Published from 1996 to 2012, Zine World offered reviews and information about zines, comics, self-published books, chapbooks, and other DIY stuff. Often called the best review zine published in the U.S., Zine World was an extensive guide to zine culture.

It is sometimes said that science is the most democratic and robust forms of knowledge.  But what life does science live outside the laboratory and how can it be shared, created, and questioned in the everyday by everyone?  A collaboration of artists, students, scientists and anyone else who is seriously

curious about the sciences, the Small Science Collective produces small zines and web comics on topics from ants to galaxies.

Read online, download the zines, distribute, make your own!

Free one-page artist’s books to print and collect at home

Browse our collection to find a one-sheet artist’s book you love

Turn your printout into a book by following our simple tutorial

Enjoy your new book—and print more to create your own library

The items in the Zine Library at the Trenton Free Public Library circulate, although most of them can be read in one sitting in the Poetry Cafe where they are located. Have a seat, read a few, and be inspired to create some of your own. We also have a non-circulating “Jer-Zines” Collection that can be used in the Trentoniana Department.

We’d love to share your zines – contact us if you’d like to contribute to the collection. We have a simple form here that you can use. You can also reach us via email zines@trentonlib.org or follow us on Instagram @trenton.makes.zines

  Word processing did not develop out of computer technology. It evolved from the needs of writers rather than those of mathemeticians, only later merging with the computer field.1 The history of word processing is the story of the gradual automation of the physical aspects of writing and editing, and the refinement of the technology to make it available to individual and corporate users.

Lately, Americans feel the country is more divided (at least politically) than ever and often wonder how to go about repairing our divisions. Those same questions were asked when the nation started to come back together after the very real split of the Civil War. When Congress passed the first Reconstruction Acts, paving the way for Confederate states to rejoin the Union after the war, many also asked who belonged in the country and what rights they would have. So, in this episode, Ed, Nathan and Joanne explore the central questions of the Reconstruction Era.

If you’ve ever tried to faithfully recreate the graphics seen on Star Trek, you know that the distinctive typography requires just the right fonts. I’ve found quite a few useful ones at various websites over the years. Whether it’s a movie title, a computer interface, or an alien script you’re looking to illustrate, there’s probably a font here to get you started. The fonts collected below aren’t supposed to be a complete archive of every font available, but rather a source for the best and most useful versions that are out there.

The Navigator, as well as the TOC engine, collect the “heading” paragraphs which have the right property. This property is set in the Outline & Numbering tab of a paragraph style. The property name is Outline level. If it is Text Body, then the paragraph is not a heading. When set to Level x, the p…

We here at The Word are into the finer things in life - sports, cats, sex, food and things like that.  We like it light and airy and let the other distro's out there carry the heavy load.  We are also all about other DIY related projects.  Things like music, art, pins and patches. Submissions of all kinds of welcome just see the contact page for e-mail or snail mail addresses.

To Feel Something That Was Not of Our World
by Nina Katchadourian

For millennia, people slept in two shifts – once in the evening, and once in the morning. But why? And how did the habit disappear?