548. A lot has been happening with Kingsoft WPS

Seems like they have been making progress.

I wrote my original post about wps (also see this post) for version 8.1.0.3724, and on this site they are currently at 9.1.0.4244 -- Alpha 12, patch 3. Judging from all the bugs that have been fixed it seems that the devs have been quite busy. The short interval between different alpha version also indicates that the development is very active. Good stuff.

Basically, WPS is the only reasonable (subjective) solution for reading .docx files on linux that I've encountered.

Either way,if you have a previous version of wps installed, remove it

sudo apt-get autoremove wps-office:i386

Then get on with it:

mkdir ~/tmp
cd ~/tmp
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt-get update
wget http://wdl.cache.ijinshan.com/wps/download/Linux/unstable/kingsoft-office_9.1.0.4244~a12p3_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i kingsoft-office_9.1.0.4244~a12p3_i386.deb
sudo apt-get install -f

Missing fonts. Clicking on the link takes you indirectly to bbs.wpn.cn, which is in Chinese.

To sort out the fonts issue above you can join bbs.wpn.cn as shown in this post, then download the wps_symbol_fonts.zip file from this post. Install the fonts by doing

cp ~/Downloads/wps_symbol_fonts.zip ~/.fonts
cd ~/.fonts
unzip wps_symbol_fonts.zip

And start WPS. The 'symbol' issue should be solved. Either way, the look of WPS has been updated, and now it can handle my test file which even MS offerings are struggling with:

See here for a post where I compare different office suites using that file (older post): http://verahill.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/313-which-office-for-linux-users.html

To sort out mime types/file associations do

sudo update-desktop-database /usr/local/share/applications/
sudo update-mime-database /usr/share/mime/

547. NMR on Debian Jessie: gSim

Note: the gsim deb needs glibc 2.14, while wheezy has version 2.13. See here for how to deal with glibc > 2.14 on wheezy: http://verahill.blogspot.com.au/2014/03/562-pulling-in-glibc-214-from-testing.html

gSim is a free program (doesn't appear to be open source -- I can't find the source anyway) for processing 1D and 2D nmr spectra. I don't have much to say about it other than that it seems to provide all the things I require of an NMR processing program, including line fitting (deconvolution).

One neat extra is that gsim has a terminal-like window at the bottom similar to xwinnmr/topspin so that you can control the processing completely via the keyboard. 

gSim can be downloaded from http://sourceforge.net/projects/gsim/

 

installation via gdebi

splash screen

can read bruker files

fid

overview of processing options. I had to select bruker to correct the fid before doing ft

zooming is a bit awkward, but can be done using the mouse

I had some issue with deconvolution

awkwardly it uses ppm for the width too if the x axis is in ppm

you can always switch to hz though

gsim also reads the acqu/s files

It can output the spectrum to eps in case you're too lazy to work in gnuplot

546. NMR on Debian Wheezy: ACD/LABS NMR under Wine

I'm currently exploring options for processing NMR data on linux (see e.g. here for nmrnotebook). There are four categories of programs:
* proprietary/for-cost running natively on linux

* proprietary/non-open source but gratis running natively on linux
* gratis and open source running natively on linux

* windows programs that happen to run ok in wine

ACD/LABS belongs to the last category, and as such is not an ideal solution. However, at this point I'm willing to try just about anything.

So yes, this relies on you having wine installed, but sometimes we need to be pragmatic like Torvalds rather than dogmatic like Stallman (the world needs both of them).

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Either way:

First register at http://www.acdlabs.com/account/register.php?redirect=/account/logout.php

Then download

 

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Installation:

Install by running

wine ~/Downloads/nmrproc_academia12.exe

Go through the installation steps:

 

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Running the software

For most of the steps below there's little need to provide a commentary:

I could only get it to fit by hitting 'Auto'

However, 'Auto' did respect my choice of function e.g. lorentzian vs mixed.

You can export the data as simple ascii files

 

In conclusion I must say that I'm fairly happy with this piece of software. I haven't used it for production purposes, so I can't vouch for it spitting out reliable data though. It's definitely worth exploring though.