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Checking Finances
Could you please do an article about a finance program that would be suitable for the average person? Something not just for accountants.
Gordon Loughnan
Ronnie says: Anyone out there with knowledge of accounts software and wants to write something up? Email it to: articles@fullcirclemagazine.org
Bluetooth Woes
Back in the day (prior to Ubuntu 14.04 I think), I never had a problem connecting a Bluetooth device to my laptop. Since then, no luck at all. I am a dedicated Xubuntu user and I really would like Bluetooth to work.
Downloaded the 15.10 beta, tried it hoping this problem had been fixed. No dice. The devices pair OK but they cannot connect.
Why, with an organization seemingly as adept as Canonical, has there been no progress on the Bluetooth front.
Temporary or permanent fixes abound but that begs the question rather than answering it.
I've tried numerous fixes gleaned from multiple blogs and forums – with no luck. Can you shed any light on this issue?
Dick Smith
Python Jubilee
Thank you very much for the LibreOffice Golden Jubilee Edition. Everything in the same place. Very convenient! Would it be possible to do the same with the Python series, please? A Python Diamond Jubilee Edition would be great!
Sylvain Pelletier
Ronnie says: Brian says he’ll try to make a Python jubilee edition.
EPUB#101 101
A couple of people noticed two minor problems with the FCM#101 EPUB: • The meta data shows it as issue 191 not 101 • The cover image is not marked as 'cover' and so does not show when imported into Google books
Brian says:
Point 1) Guilty as charged.
In mitigation, I can only say that I entered the Metadata by candle light on my laptop and the 9 and 0 are adjacent to each other.
Point 2) piqued my interest. A download from the FCM site looked like this.
And the code for the cover page is:
<body>
<h1 title="Cover">Full Circle Magazine</h1> <p><img alt="OOPS" src="../Images/Cover.jpg" /></p> <h3 class="sigil_not_in_toc">Issue #101</h3>
</body>
Everything looks OK so far.
As I know nothing about Google Books, I decided to open it. Of course the app contains no information on how to get an ePub into it. The device I was using then decided to commit suicide by hurling itself onto a concrete floor.
A search revealed: “As of March 2013, Google Play Books supports third-party ePub or PDF files. You can upload books to your account by visiting https://play.google.com/books/uploads in your web browser (when logged in to your Google account, of course). You are permitted to store up to 1,000 uploaded files on your account at a time, and each file must be no larger than 50 MB in size.”
So the downloaded file is now uploaded to Google Play Books where it appears to undergo some file manipulation.
I can only surmise that the file became corrupted for you during either a download or upload, or its manipulation by Google.
I did notice that there was one additional problem introduced by uploading the file to Google Play – whether or not it is the same under Android as in the browser I can't check right now.
Google removes the blank line between paragraphs. As paragraphs in the ePub are justified, it’s difficult to see when one ends and the next begins.
If you have Calibre installed on your computer, then it is easy to edit the Metadata after importing the ePub.
Right-clicking on the ePub gives you the option to edit the book and indent the paragraphs if you need to. In the left column, under Styles, double-click on FCM15.css and look for
p {
font-family: Ubuntu; font-weight: normal; text-align: justify; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 14pt;
}
and add
text-indent: 30pt;
to make it read
p {
text-indent: 30pt; font-family: Ubuntu; font-weight: normal; text-align: justify; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 14pt;
}
Save and exit.
The modified ePub can now be found in the Calibre Library.
Before:
After: Viewed from Google Books
An indent of 30pt may be too much; you might be happier with, say, 12pt:
text-indent: 12pt;
Hope this is some help,
Brian