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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/23
Will need this: [Wayback/Archive] Centurion Deuren: Gebruikers- & Installatiehandleiding KS-Serie (70 – 100) [Wayback PDF View/PDF View]
The problem is that a combination of the buttons of the Centurion remote controls failing more frequently plus that the remote control are unable to teach their code to new universtal remote controls that we still had from our previous home which used a Marantec door.
Universal remote controls are supposed to be compatible with both Centurion and Marantec remote controls.
What I want to figure out is if I can initiate one new remote control from the door opening mechanism, then have that teach other new remote controls.
Hopefully this is the right manual for the model we have (the model number is not visible from below, so need to verify that from a location difficult to look from above).
Fingers crossed.
Related links (the quest):
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/17
Download & transfer via USB Transfer Tip: After downloading, use your USB cable to connect your computer and Kindle. Your Kindle will appear as a drive on your computer. Copy your downloaded file from your computer to your Kindle’s documents folder. ❗️Starting 26 February 2025, the ‘Download & Transfer via USB’ option will no longer be available. You can still send Kindle books to your Wi-Fi enabled devices by selecting the ‘Deliver or Remove from Device’ option. Learn more about managing downloads
Amazon will disable downloading of Kindle books after 2025-02-25 (yup: slightly more than a week!):
(image on the right via Jan Wildeboer)
Edit 20250224: steps to convert from Kindle 1.17 on MacOS or Windows in 3 Ways to Convert Kindle to PDF for Free.
It allowed me to convert everything to PDF except one book which I found a free PDF of at [Wayback/Archive] Linear Algebra Done Right as [Wayback/Archive] linear.axler.net/LADR4e.pdf [Wayback PDF View/PDF View] via [WaybackSave/Archive] Sheldon Axler on X: “The free Kindle version of the fourth edition of my book Linear Algebra Done Right is now available at www.amazon.com/Linear-Algebra-Right-Undergraduate-Mathematics-ebook/dp/B0DDT4WVRD. The free pdf version of the book is available at linear.axler.net. The free translation into Chinese is also available as a pdf file at linear.axler.net“ ¹
Back to the original:
Table with URLs for your Kindle libraries where you can download manually based on https://www.amazon.com/hz/mycd/digital-console/contentlist/booksAll/dateDsc/ which I got form the below mentioned download tools:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/12/17
Finally an easier way to convert Office documents (and other formats) to markdown: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – microsoft/markitdown: Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown. (after Google added a Markdown export feature to Google Docs about half a year ago, and basic Markdown formatting about 2 years ago – see below):
There are quite a few dependencies in [Wayback/Archive] markitdown/pyproject.toml at main · microsoft/markitdown · GitHub, so be prepared for that.
Supported formats (added links for clarity):
The MarkItDown library is a utility tool for converting various files to Markdown (e.g., for indexing, text analysis, etc.)
It presently supports:
- PDF (.pdf)
- PowerPoint (.pptx)
- Word (.docx)
- Excel (.xlsx)
- Images (EXIF metadata, and OCR)
- Audio (EXIF metadata, and speech transcription)
- HTML (special handling of Wikipedia, etc.)
- Various other text-based formats (csv, json, xml, etc.)
Google was first though:
- [Wayback/Archive] Google Workspace Updates: Compose with Markdown in Google Docs on web
- [Wayback/Archive] Google Workspace Updates: Import and export Markdown in Google Docs
There is speculation on why Microsoft introduced it just now ranging from “they need it for AI training” to “just late to the game”. I’m with the latter. Apple is even later, so if you want to convert Apple Notes to markdown, then you can use [Wayback/Archive] Import from Apple Notes – Obsidian Help.
Via various sources, including:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/05/30
Just in case I ever need more features than the built-in PDF creator in Windows: PDF24 Creator – Wikipedia
PDF24 is free for commercial use and offers these features that the Windows built-in PDF support lacks:
- Merge multiple PDF into one file
- Rotating, extracting, inserting pages
- Integrated preview for PDF editing
- PDF encryption, decryption and signing
- Change PDF information (author, title, etc.)
- Compress and shrink PDF files
- Add a watermark or stamp a PDF file
- Combine pages with a digital paper
- Convert to and from PDF
- Multiple PDF printers for different purposes since 7.7.0
- Full featured and lightweight PDF reader since version 8.7.0
- Tesseract OCR engine since version 8.8.0
- Blackening of PDF files since version 10.0.0
Via [Wayback/Archive.is] Software-update: doPDF 10.8.127 – Computer – Downloads – Tweakers (which mentions it does not need GhostScript)
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2021/04/02
I bumped into [WayBack] Print Friendly & PDF: Make a Printer Friendly & PDF version of any webpage.
Though Chrome has built-in PDF output support, often web sites render like a mess with it.
Hopefully the above site makes better PDFs in those cases.
I will try to use it for those, and get back if it works.
Via:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/06/30
The first hit of pdf binary to text – Google Search was [WayBack] binaryfiles – How to convert PDF binary parts into ASCII/ANSI so I can look at it in a text editor? – Stack Overflow has many options including:
Since I have qpdf installed on most systems:
Another useful tool to transform a PDF into an internal format that enables text editor access is qpdf. It is a “command-line program that does structural, content-preserving transformations on PDF files”.
Example usage:
qpdf \
--qdf \
--object-streams=disable \
input-with-compressed-objects.pdf \
output-with-expanded-objects.pdf
- The output of the
QDF-mode enforced by the --qdf switch organizes and re-orders the objects neatly. It adds comments to track the original object IDs and page content streams. All object dictionaries are written into a “normalized” standard format for easier parsing.
- The
--object-streams=disable causes the extraction of (otherwise not recognizable) individual objects that are compressed into another object’s stream data.
The recompress is easy as per [WayBack] QPDF Manual:
qpdf /tmp/uncompressed.pdf /tmp/compressed.pdf
The answer is by [WayBack] User Kurt Pfeifle – Stack Overflow who has many other interesting PDF related answers at:
Stackoverflow.com:
Superuser.com:
Serverfault.com:
–jeroen
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