Articles tagged #svg
From Inkscape to poppler
10 min
What's next? Well... poppler is the library Inkscape uses to import PDFs.
Cool bear's hot tip
Yes, the name comes from Futurama.
Turns out, poppler comes with a bunch of CLI tools, including pdftocairo!
Halfway through this article, I realized the "regular weight" on my system was in fact Iosevka SS01 (Andale Mono Style) (see ), but the "bold weight" was the default Iosevka.
Truly headless draw.io exports
16 min
I love diagrams. I love them so much!
In fact, I have fairly poor visualization skills, so making a diagram is extremely helpful to me: I'll have some vague idea of how different things are connected, and then I'll make a diagram, and suddenly there's a tangible thing I can look at and talk about.
Of course the diagram only represents a fraction of what I had in mind in the first place, but that's okay: the point is to be able to talk about of a concept, and so I have to make choices about what to include in the diagram. And maybe make several diagrams.
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