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    How to convert pdf to svg

    by  • June 1, 2013 • KDE • 9 Comments

    In a project I’m currently working on I need to display the result of TeX code. So I thought it would be nice and accurate to compile the TeX code to produce a pdf, and then use libpoppler-qt4 to draw the pdf. This works in principal, but there is a licensing problem: libpoppler is...

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    A rich python console and more in Kate editor

    by  • May 31, 2013 • Common, Developers, KDE • 12 Comments

    I have done some improvements in the plugins: python_console_ipython, python_autocomplete, python_utils, js_utils, xml_pretty and django_utils. These plugins I added a month and a half ago (except python_console_ipython) to the kate repository. I have done two improvements and a new feature: Now they work with Python2 and Python3 (except python_autocomplete, this only works with Python2, due pysmell dependence)...

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    Kate D-Bus Interfaces, used at all?

    by  • April 6, 2013 • Developers, KDE, Users • 4 Comments

    I just started to clean up the content of kate.git, moving things around, fixing compile warnings and similar stuff. I stumbled over warnings in our dbus interfaces. The main use of them is to allow Kate to reuse an existing instance for opening files and sessions. This part (e.g. the interface of the application object itself)...

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