Editing .sce and .sci files on your smartphone

Ok, you have been programming Scilab functions and scripts all day on your favorite desktop computer. You assume it's all you can do for the day and you decide to leave the desk for a little distraction far away Scilab (an Irish pub and a fresh Belgium beer is a very good solution), and suddenly, in the pub, you find the missing algorithm solution for your functions/scripts. Dam ! How I can edit this functions on my smartphone ??!! Once again the solution is right there on your smartphone and it is unnecessary to waste money and time searching for dedicated applications on the Apple store or on the Play store. You're surely a file manager/browser native application on your smartphone, so the only thing to do is to replace the .sce and .sci extension for .txt and then edit the file with your favorite text editor (like Polaris Office or Simple Notepad, ...).

Note: I assume you are using also a cloud-Web solution like Dropbox, Copy, Drive, ... where you upload the Scilab scripts from your desktop computer, so you can download them to your smartphone when you want.

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Labview and Scilab

Labview generates .lvm files. Don't waste your time looking for dedicated Scilab scripts or functions for read this kind of files. You can easily read this files with the function csvRead.sci because the Labview files are just like Excel files in csv format.

If you use the csvRead function directly with only the name of the file as argument, you will obtain a vector or a matrix with NaN (the header and other comments) and the numerical data. With the function thrownan you can obtain a new vector or matrix without the NaN.

If you're looking for interfacing Labview with Scilab during the signal acquisition, you should take a look on "NI Labview to Scilab Gateway":

http://sine.ni.com/nips/cds/view/p/lang/fr/nid/210055

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Converting PDF files into image files with GIMP

Don't waste your time searching "pdf to jpg" on Google. With GIMP (freeware) you can easily convert pdf files into image files.

Whether we're doing a paper, a post for a blog, an article for a newspaper, a web magazine, or an academic report, in editing and formatting tasks, we are regularly confronted with the problem of converting a pdf file into an image file.There are many software on the Internet that allow you to convert pdf files into jpg, gif or png files. In most cases these software are not free. If they are free, there’re severe limitations (watermarks on images, pages number limited, adds, …). Don’t waste your time in searching “pdf to jpg” in Google, the solution is maybe already in your computer. Simply executes GIMP, then open the pdf file (be careful with the file name: avoid spaces and strange characters as è, é, à, … sorry for the French and Spanish people). Automatically GIMP asks you if you want to import the pdf. Take a look in options presented on the opened window and press “Import”. Then you can save each opened page of the pdf as you want. “Save as” jpg, gimp, png or any other option available.

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