[BL] BL3 as 'user' D
sindi keesan
keesan at sdf.lonestar.org
Sat Jan 20 18:01:44 EST 2007
I can download vector linux at the library except it is very complicated
to get their O/S to recognize our USB flash drive, and involves going into
WORD and it took the librarian 15 minutes to figure out. A simpler way is
to shut down Windows and restart it with the flash drive inserted but the
librarian at the local branch said that was forbidden (the main branch
told us to do this), so I doubt we would be allowed to boot from the USB
linux floppy boot disk either.
Back to another suggestion, using pbmtolj to print formatted text instead
of Abiword/gs/lpr.
I found rtf2ps-1.0.tar.gz to convert Abiword rtf output to ps. It is
based on the Ted wordprocessor, which we had for BL2. Is it still around?
It was very slow and heavily mouse-based.
The only pstopnm or pstopbm I could find required gs (and probably lots of
fonts).
xdpf has a pdftopbm that works in BL3 if you give it a minimal set of gs
fonts (without gs itself) and a modified configuration file to point at
these fonts.
I need a pstopdf that is not gs-based, or a wordprocessor that outputs ps
or pdf.
I found TextMaker for Linux 2002, free for linux, 14MB download (source
code? - the power went out as I was investigating), that I could download
at the library. It produces pdf. So does OpenOffice (200MB). TextMaker
can import (export?) WORD .doc files and works in 17 languages. Also
available for Windows and BSD. The downloadable version is a trial/demo
and the cost is $50.
I will report if this is promising.
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, James Miller wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 06:39:21PM +0000, sindi keesan wrote:
>>>
>>> No, you aren't forced to install Windows. You've got
>>> plenty of other options (DSL, VectorLinux, etc.).
>>
>> I don't want to learn another linux just to put on other people's
>> computers. I am trying to share what I already know. BL supports our
>
> Just for the record, Vector, like BL, is based on Slackware. The learning curve would therefore be alot shallower than
> with DSL (which is based on Knoppix/Debian).
>
> James
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