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Create a Video DVD in Ubuntu 9.10 - the Karmic Koala

Assuming you have created a video file that you want to burn to a video DVD in Ubuntu. A nice and simple tool for this is DeVeDe  - a program to create video DVDs and CDs (VCD, sVCD or CVD), suitables for home players, from any number of video files, in any of the formats supported by  Mplayer . After you have created the .iso dvd image with DeVeDe you can easily burn it to the DVD using Brasero .

Merge multiple PDF files into one PDF file

Recently I needed to combine two PDF documents that I created with the TurboScan App on my Iphone (file sizes 528.5 kByte and 421.9 kByte and was searching for free options I can use with Ubuntu Linux. I found the following options: The web service  http://www.mergepdf.net/ : Usability: Easy; excellent for merging PDF files Functionality: no other functions available File size of the merged file: 950.1 kByte The free online PDF editor PDF Hammer  http://www.nitropdf.com/free/hammer/index.htm . Usability: almost as easy as mergepdf Functionality: other functions available File size of the merged file: 949.8 kByte The Linux command line   pdftk too lkit:  http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/ Usability: follow examples on the webpage; easy if you are comfortable with the command line Functionality: other functions available File size of the merged file:  949.8 kByte The open source PDF editor PDFedit  http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit/  and  http://pdfedit.petricek.net/e