Working with GhostScript : Convert PDF to images using ghostscript

Ghostscript is an interpreter for PostScript™ and (PDF) files, lets see how we can use it convert PDF to images.

-Install Ghostscript (I am using ubunutu, so I can perform)

sudo apt-get install ghostscript

- run these script via console to make images from pdf

gs -dUseCropBox -dTextAlphaBits=4 -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4 -dAdjustWidth=0 -dNOPROMPT -sDEVICE=jpeg -dSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -r140 -dJPEGQ=80  -dFirstPage='1' -dLastPage='8' -sOutputFile=/tmp/output/image-%d.jpg /tmp/downloads/sample.pdf

You can see output like this :

and your output folders will list your images :

FYI - Params :
-dFirstPage and -dLastPage specifies page limits , which is optional
-sOutputFile [output file] [input file]

:)

How to add force quit option in ubutnu 12.04

Just got updated my ubuntu version to 12.04 , One of my favorite tool was missing there -Force Quit .
Followed these step and I restored it there in panel

1- create a file named 'Force_Quit.desktop' and contents should be like this

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Force Quit
Comment=Force Kill an Unresponsive Running Application or Window
Exec=xkill
Icon=gnome-panel-force-quit
Terminal=false
Type=Application
StartupNotify=true

2- Place it applications folder , you can open application folder directly using these command
    nautilus ~/.local/share/applications/
3- Drag and drop 'Force_Quit.desktop' file in to Unity launcher.

Thats it !

How to check if a controller exists using Zend Framework

Have you ever wondered how to check if a controller/action exist in zend FM from any side of app ? Here is the code

        $front = Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance();
        $dispatcher = $front->getDispatcher();

        $test = new Zend_Controller_Request_Http();
        $test->setParams(array(
            'action' => 'index',
            'controller' => 'content',

                )
        );

        if($dispatcher->isDispatchable($test)) {
            echo "yes-its a controller";
            //$this->_forward('about-us', 'content'); // Do whatever you want
        } else {
            echo "NO- its not a Controller";
        }

cool js beautifier

Hi,

Just fond a good js beautifier at http://jsbeautifier.org/ , you can use it for extracting minified js too ,
Njoy

facebook heatmap

Here is how facebook heat-map look like ..



more on -

http://mashable.com/2011/11/30/social-profile-eye-tracking/

WordPress Plugins that Boost up your Blog

Search Regex
Redirection
Bing 404
WordPress SEO
Hyper Cache
FB Open Graph
404 Email Notifier
SlideShare
Smart YouTube
YARRP
WP Optimize
WP-DBManager
Debug Queries
Auto Post Thumbnail
Regenerate Thumbnails
Google XML Sitemaps
XML Video Sitemap
Date in a Nice Tone

.. more you can find on -- http://www.labnol.org/software/must-have-wordpress-plugins/14034/

Add custom domains to Your openshift account

Hurray !!


It is now possible to use rhc-ctl-app -a appname -c add-alias --alias www.mydomain.com

and then in your DNS management for mydomain.com you can add a cname to point www.mydomain.com to app-namespace.rhcloud.com.