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  • From: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] reduced icewm for BL2
  • Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 16:57:19 +0000 (UTC)

On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, David Moberg wrote:

----- Original Message -----
From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>

The BL3 Abiword doesn't run on BL2? Even if you have xset?

What is xset? BL3 Abiword requires a rather odd location of fonts
and I don't want to move them around now that I have Xvesa working
in BL2.

Xset is a little tool which lets you change X server settings while
the server is running. The BL3 Abiword uses it to set up its fonts.

I don't have xset in BL2. BL3 xset needs libc.so.5, which I already copied over to BL2 for netpbm.

Since AbiWord_s is statically linked, I could try copying over the whole 11MB of bin/AbiSuite, and xset, to BL2. Will it run without the dictionary and with less than 2.3MB fonts?


What is unusual about the font location? The copy I have here has
them in the /usr/local/AbiSuite/fonts/ directory. When you run the
/usr/local/bin/abiword (a symlink to the actual script) shell script,
that uses Xset to tell Xvesa where the fonts are, and then it's loaded.
What's there to move around? You can just leave them in the AbiSuite
directory.

Steven had to experiment a lot to get this to work because AbiWord somehow expected a full set of X fonts as well, I think. I think the script is his.

I have not actually used Abiword after testing it. I just need
some way to read WORD files and none of the convertors/importers I
tried including Abiword got the format quite right and I need to

I tried wvware, antiword (the latest), catdoc, a DOS everything-convertor, and a DOS office suite. They would preserve the text most of the time, but put things in the wrong places, sometimes with parts interchanged.

preserve formats of what people send to translate. So I am stuck
with Win98 and their viewer, unless I want to ask people to print
and scan the file. Or MS decides to provide a free linux WORD
viewer.

<complaint> The DOC format is big and very complicated. You lose
formatting even when you move files between different versions of
Word. I guess this is to force you to buy new versions of Word or
Office. </complaint>

The current maintainer of netpbm has been really helpful, and has
even added to some of the man pages in response to my questions.
He got into this sort of by accident when one of the programs was
broken. I will soon be posting a collection of the programs I
would like to use from netpbm, unless anyone else has requests.
Mostly just ways to resize and convert and print common image
formats.

Are these from the pbmtox tarball, or is the maintainer building them?

From what you sent, but the maintainer suggested also pbmtext (makes a pbm
of ascii which you can then incorporate into other images or print on the ppa series printer) and pbmpage (used to calibrate printers). Do you have those?

I just got another email from the maintainer. He helped me get 11.69"
scanned output into proper form for the ppa printer (use pamcut) and suggested pnmenlarge to print 200 dpi on the ppa (600 dpi only).

Besides pbmtolj pbm_file > /dev/lp0, could I pbmtolj pbm_file > lj_file and then cat lj_file > /dev/lp0? If so, is there a DOS way (type?) to send the same preformatted file to a printer? Netpbm can be compiled for DOS (someone did it for me) and that would give me a DOS 'Windows' printer with which to impress the friend who does his taxes on a Commodore.

David
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