Wednesday 16 January 2008

Merging PDF files

Assisted by this page, I managed to create a handy pdf file from the six .jpg files of sheet music I'd been sent. First I opened them in showFoto and printed them to six .pdf files, and then merged them on the linux command-line thus:
gs -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOUTPUTFILE=Merged.pdf -dBATCH 1.pdf 2.pdf 3.pdf 3.pdf
etcetera, etcetera, etcetera...

Tuesday 15 January 2008

Keyboard shortcuts for kwrite

As usual, this will be of very little interest to anyone but me, but it's actually made my day. I have accidentally discovered the keyboard shortcuts useful for editing fortran code in kwrite.

Ctrl+I - indents
Ctrl+Shift+I - un-indents
Ctrl + D - comments out code (by ! marks)
Ctrl + Shift + D - un-comments code

How exciting my day is today. I actually could have looked this up in the kwrite menu, so I am stupid too!

Monday 14 January 2008

File I/O in Fortran 95

Can a "unit" be re-used after disconnecting from a previous file?
I believe the answer is yes! Two different units are only needed when trying to access two files at the same time. Once a file has been disconnected, one can re-use the number. Hoorah!

Tuesday 8 January 2008

I can't even remember how to compile!

My previous programs which don't require linking to a NAG library seem to compile thus:

gfortran -m32 program.f90 -o program

If they do require linkage, I compile like this:

gfortran -m32 program.f90 /opt/NAG/fll3a21dfl/lib/libnag_nag.a -o program

Silly me. Won't forget that now, will I?