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Mac OS X – installing pdf-tools using homebrew to circumvent “For the best experience, open this PDF portfolio in Acrobat 9 or Adobe Reader 9, or later.”

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/14

Adobe marketing scam

Adobe marketing scam

I don’t want Acrobat/Adobe Reader on my Mac. Period.

But Preview will show some PDF files as “For the best experience, open this PDF portfolio in Acrobat 9 or Adobe Reader 9, or later.” or “For the best experience, open this PDF portfolio in Acrobat X or Adobe Reader X, or later.”

This is some Adobe marketing scam where they generate a PDF file actually as a portfolio of PDF files having the first PDF being “marketing” message.

So I needed the pdf-tools on my Mac for which many sites suggest to use brew install pdf-tools. That worked not so well:

$ brew install pdf-tools
Error: No available formula with the name "pdf-tools" 
==> Searching for similarly named formulae...
This similarly named formula was found:
mupdf-tools
To install it, run:
  brew install mupdf-tools
==> Searching taps...
This formula was found in a tap:
homebrew/emacs/pdf-tools
To install it, run:
  brew install homebrew/emacs/pdf-tools

Searching for “Error: No available formula with the name” “pdf-tools” didn’t return useful results but looking for brew “pdf-tools” gone revealed pdf-tools: move to homebrew/emacs · wingyplus/homebrew@6e73af9 indicating the command should indeed be brew install homebrew/emacs/pdf-tools however that also ended up failing, in fact with multiple errors:

==> make server/epdfinfo
Error: No available formula with the name "homebrew/dupes/tcl-tk" 
Please tap it and then try again: brew tap homebrew/dupes
==> Searching for similarly named formulae...
Error: No similarly named formulae found.
==> Searching taps...
Error: No formulae found in taps.

After doing abrew tap homebrew/dupes it finally worked.

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Oh, shit, git. via Kristian Köhntopp – Google+

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/10

Oh, shit, git. For +Tatiana Azundris, Originally shared by Stefani Banerian

Source: Kristian Köhntopp – Google+

Oh, shit, git!
Oh shit, git! Git is hard: screwing up is easy, and figuring out how to fix your mistakes is fucking impossible. Git documentation has this chicken and egg problem where you can’t search for how to get yourself out of a mess, unless you already know the name of the thing you need to know about …
ohshitgit.com

Right now the site is down from Amsterdam; luckily we have http://web.archive.org/web/20160909123413/http://ohshitgit.com/

If you’re fast, you might see http://ohshitgit.com redirect to http://ohshitgit.com/cgi-sys/suspendedpage.cgi which shows:

The website you were trying to reach is temporarily unavailable.
Please check back soon.
If you are the owner of this website, please contact Technical Support as soon as possible.

–jeroen

Image source: xkcd: Git [WayBack] via Christian Vogel [WayBack]

Posted in Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, git, Source Code Management | Leave a Comment »

“Yes/No” question with what kind of buttons? Indeed “Yes/Cancel” SourceTree for Windows installer – latest version.

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/07

Yes, people still do this: Screenshot 2016-09-07 15.59.24.png

This one is worse than the usual “Yes/No” questions missing one or more of the “Yes” or “No” buttons in that it actually mentions you can click “No”.

Load SSH Key?

Do you have an SSH kkey that you’d like to load now? If not you can click “No” and create one later if you like”.

Posted in DVCS - Distributed Version Control, git, Mercurial/Hg, Software Development, SourceTree | Leave a Comment »

tf: show changeset details on the console

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/02

By default the changeset command in tf.exe shows a dialog showing a list of all files in that changeset.
I wanted that list to be dumped on the console for further processing.

Luckily there is a /noprompt option for that:

call "%~dp0tf.bat" changeset /noprompt %*

The above tf-show-changeset-details-on-console.bat batch file uses tf.bat that hunts for the location of tf.exe.

–jeroen

Posted in .NET, Development, Software Development, Source Code Management, TFS (Team Foundation System) | Leave a Comment »

Mercurial/Hg; syntax/tips for amend commit adding/reming files to latest (non-pushed) commit

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/01

Sometimes your latest commit isn’t what you intended. Fixing can be done, but isn’t always obvious hence these links:

Remove a new file from a commit:

cp somefile.txt somefile.txt.bak
hg forget somefile.txt
hg commit --amend

If the file was new (i.e. you had used hg add).

If that file already existed try:

cp somefile.txt somefile.txt.bak
hg revert somefile.txt --rev .~1
hg commit --amend
cp somefile.txt.bak somefile.txt

–jeroen

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