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# plain text workflow
Files for the publication & poster for Data Workers, an exhibition by Algolit at the Mundaneum in Mons from 28 March until 28 April 2019.
<http://www.algolit.net/index.php/Data_Workers>
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### enscript
(using postscript to create pdf)
`$ enscript --word-wrap --margins=40:10:10:20 --fancy-header writers.intro.txt -o - | ps2pdf - test.pdf`
`$ cat writers.intro.txt | iconv -c -f utf-8 -t ISO-8859-1 | enscript --word-wrap --margins=40:10:10:20 --fancy-header -o - | ps2pdf - test.pdf`
### txt2pdf
(uses reportlab)
<https://github.com/baruchel/txt2pdf>
`$ python3 txt2pdf/txt2pdf.py -T 1 -B 2 -L 2 -R 1 writers.intro.txt -o test.pdf`
`$ python3 txt2pdf/txt2pdf.py -m A4 -f fonts/fantasque/TTF/FantasqueSansMono-Regular.ttf -s 10 -v 0 -T 1 -B 1 -L 1.5 -R 1.5 data-workers.txt -o test.pdf`
currently using:
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### PDF2txt miner
The inverted tool of this process
https://www.unixuser.org/~euske/python/pdfminer/
"What's It? PDFMiner is a tool for extracting information from PDF documents. Unlike other PDF-related tools, it focuses entirely on getting and analyzing text data. PDFMiner allows one to obtain the exact location of text in a page, as well as other information such as fonts or lines."
<https://www.unixuser.org/~euske/python/pdfminer/>
*"What's It? PDFMiner is a tool for extracting information from PDF documents. Unlike other PDF-related tools, it focuses entirely on getting and analyzing text data. PDFMiner allows one to obtain the exact location of text in a page, as well as other information such as fonts or lines."*
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## --- commands ---
Generate the publication to PDF:
`$ python3 create_all.py && python3 txt2pdf/txt2pdf.py -m A4 -f fonts/unifont-11.0.03.ttf -s 9 -v 0.05 -T 1 -B 0.9 -L 1.6 -R 1.4 data-workers.en.txt -o data-workers.en.pdf`
Add logos.pdf on last page with PDFTK
`$ pdftk data-workers.en.pdf A=data-workers.en.pdf cat A52 output data-workers.en.backcover.pdf`
`$ pdftk data-workers.en.backcover.pdf multistamp logos.pdf output data-workers.en.logos.pdf `
`$ pdftk A=data-workers.en.pdf B=data-workers.en.backcover.logos.pdf cat A1-51 B output data-workers.en.logos.pdf`
PDFTK in one command:
`$ pdftk data-workers.en.pdf A=data-workers.en.pdf cat A52 output data-workers.en.backcover.pdf && pdftk data-workers.en.backcover.pdf multistamp logos.pdf output data-workers.en.logos.pdf && pdftk A=data-workers.en.pdf B=data-workers.en.backcover.logos.pdf cat A1-51 B output data-workers.en.logos.pdf`
## --- ASCII/UNICODE fonts ---
Unicode art :)
<http://xahlee.info/comp/unicode_ascii_art.html>
<http://qaz.wtf/u/convert.cgi?text=This+is+pretty+fun+too.+Do+something+for+your+group+tag>
<https://coolsymbol.com/cool-fancy-text-generator.html>
<http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/>
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## --- DUMP ---
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