For a recent project I needed to perform document translations from DOC to PNG which requires an essential intermediate step to PDF. The transformations required us to go to from DOC to PDF which can easily be done very nicely using openoffice 2.3 in a headless configuration. The downside is you need a process running [...]
By far the most messy thing on CentOS 5.2 is adding Sun’s Java. I have never found great success from the different packages that are out there for installing java. I prefer to simply use the packages from Sun. Step (1) : Visit Sun’s web site and download the latest version of Java (the *.bin [...]
Today I had a new server running CentOS5 have trouble with a known good authorize.net library using curl. It was producing the following error: error setting certificate verify locations: CAfile: /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt CApath: none After some research I found it was based on the inability for the apache user to access the ca-bundle.crt file. You will [...]
Today I ran across a project need for pdftk (AccessPDF) for CentOS5. Adding pdftk to CentOS5 was more of struggle than I would have guessed because it was not available in most of the repos I normally use. Google did not yield any pre-build RPM files for pdftk for CentOS5 so I built them for [...]
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