Highlighting changes in latex documents

I find it a lot easier to write my papers in latex, but sometimes collaboration can become tricky.

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How to export Google Spreadsheet Charts as SVG

Online office tools like Google Docs are very helpful when collaborating on a project with other people. Recently I wanted to export a figure and put in to a report after slightly modifying it. However the only export option available is in PNG, which is hard to edit if you are used to working with vector files in Inkscape or Illustrator.

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GAMMA data2geotiff GDAL error

Today I noticed that I was not able to run the data2geotiff command from the GAMMA package. The error message indicated that it was not able to find the GDAL libraries even though they were installed on the system.

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Notes on Torque Portable Batch System

This article simply holds my notes on the Torque Portable Batch System, a process manager that I use daily to balance the load on the my computers.

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Embedding fonts to PDF with Kile

The University of Miami Dissertation Editor told me that they require all fonts to be embedded in my dissertation. I used Kile under Ubuntu to write my dissertation, and a quick Google search guided me how to embed all the fonts in the document.

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