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azimir ,
  • Resizing images: mogrify (part of the imagemagick suite)
  • ffmpeg
  • pdftk is king for rotating/cropping/appending pdfs
  • LaTeX everything
  • make/shell - to script/automate image and document editing
  • pandoc is reasonably good for many things
  • latex2rtf - to get plain text for word counts out of LaTeX source
  • wc - word count, line count
  • ispell -t - does spell check in the terminal. The -t is so that it’ll mostly ignore LaTeX commands in the source

I’m sure there’s more but I don’t memorize them, they kind of get remembered when I need them.

Penguincoder ,

Your list looks like what I’d write anyway, so just commenting; ^ That.

bbbhltz ,
@bbbhltz@beehaw.org avatar

Very similar to you. I do use gramma for spellchecking. My most used app overall is probably pandoc. I use it to make all my docs and presentations for work.

gbrlsnchs ,

Do you create slides with it? Which input format do you use for that? I usually use LaTeX for slides but would be interested in an alternative.

pudgymongrel ,
  • convert - convert between image formats as well as resize an image, blur, crop, despeckle, dither, draw on, flip, join, re-sample, etc. Almost nothing it can’t do.
SexualPolytope , (edited )
@SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

IIRC, convert is just an alias to imagemagick.

20gramsWrench ,

you recalled correctly.

pudgymongrel ,

TIL. Thank you kind strangers.

SomeBoyo ,

I download files with axel

antihero OP ,

Thanks! i’ll try it out

madeindjs ,

syncthing to sync my files on all my devices

joey ,

Aria2c is the best downloader for large files. It also supports torrents.

SexualPolytope , (edited )
@SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

I use most of these that you listed, except that I don’t use office apps at all, and do all my documents using LaTeX in neovim.

Also, I have small helper scrips for pdf manipulation for tasks that I do regularly, like making my handwritten notes ready for printing at my office since I don’t like the algo my office printer uses to convert them to B&W. I also use sejda-console for merging PDFs as it has nice options for manipulating TOC during the merge.

Another nice utility is ffpb which is basically a wrapper around ffmpeg that gives it a nice progress bar.

runeko ,

Rsync for moving files and backing up.

JubilantJaguar ,

The ultimate it-just-works CLI tool.

Although I have never understood why it’s called rsync, because you need to add –recursive to make it actually sync a file tree, which is what it does best.

Backslash ,

I think rsync is short for remote sync

JubilantJaguar ,

Amazing!

carnha , (edited )
  • https://github.com/ho-tex/pdfcrop (commonly included with LaTeX) for cropping margins - it cuts the pdf down to its contents then adds a margin of your choosing, extremely useful for forcing academic papers to have consistent margins, pdfcrop --margins 72 *pdf here* will create a document with a ~1in margin all around (it uses bp as its units)
  • https://www.libvips.org/ for resizing/converting images - it’s a bit faster and lighter than imagemagick in my experience, although the main reason I use it instead of imagemagick is just because I like playing around with stuff I haven’t used before :) It has an officially supported python binding too
JubilantJaguar ,
  • xournal for fake form-filling on PDFs - ugly and unintuitive but gets the job done
  • img2pdf - does what it says on the tin
  • ranger for managing files and launching stuff - not the coolest kid on the block but this is the single most impressive terminal app I have used in recent years, the key bindings and commands and defaults are so crazily intuitive that I hardly ever even need to consult the manual
non_feistel ,
@non_feistel@lemmy.world avatar

If you use Firefox, it added pdf editing in since 106. I like it compared to xournal. www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/106.0/releasenotes

20gramsWrench ,

find -exec is essential to process multiple files

7z handles wildcards inside a find -exec so you can save 200 lines of sh compliance

mpv plays online media since it uses yt-dlp

chaorace ,
@chaorace@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Here is my list:

  • emacs - emacs
mafbar ,

Ah, so you use the EMACS operating system as well?

bartlbee ,

I’d add:

  • ghostscript - with some basic perl scripts, works great for pdf flattening/compressing, merging, splitting, adding bookmarks etc.
  • poppler - pdfseparate, sometimes pdfunite
  • zathura - pdf viewing
  • feh - images
  • sshfs - prefer it to rclone
  • cheat
  • emacs - org-mode, latex, dired/wdired, capture, eshell, vterm, tramp
  • mc/midnight commander
learnbyexample ,
@learnbyexample@programming.dev avatar

github.com/WyattBlue/auto-editor - automatically editing video and audio by analyzing a variety of methods, most notably audio loudness

github.com/shssoichiro/oxipng, pngquant.org and github.com/RazrFalcon/svgcleaner for optimizing images

MigratingtoLemmy ,

Does anyone know of an application which can eliminate excessive glare in a picture?

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