Here's the thing about ImageMagick: it looks complicated because it's built for power users who need flexibility. When you ...

I've spent a lot of time in my column talking about text processing and analysis, with the basic assumption that if you're using the command line, you're focused on text. That's not always true, and ...

Let's start with some homework. Go to Google (or Bing) and search for "privacy is dead, get over it". I first heard this from Bill Joy, cofounder of Sun Microsystems, but it's attributed to a number ...

I have a number of PDF documents containing scalable vector art and text, that need to be saved to bitmap (BMP and/or TGA format). I'm working on a bash script to convert them all from PDF to bitmaps ...