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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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