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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com>]

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From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
 
> 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?

I just checked. Removing the ~2MB dictionary didn't change anything,
until I tried to run the spell checker. It popped up an error message,
which is what I expected it to do. Once you close that message, it
keeps running.

The fonts it comes with are about 2.3MB. How much smaller do you want
them? I'm really not sure which ones are necessary. You may need to
try removing one at a time.

> > 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.

Off the subject: I built a little game for BL3. It compiled fine, but
it needed 4 fonts from the Xfonts package to run. I couldn't figure
out how to remove that dependency, until I remembered that AbiWord uses
its own fonts. That script really helped.

The script looks like it was made for AbiWord.

> >> 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'm not sure. Do you want them? I would think that pbmtext could be replaced
by a script that concatenates image files of letters. As for printer
calibration, how does that work? Does it tell you how to adjust the pnm tool
settings for a good image? Wouldn't printing a test image serve the same
purpose? Please excuse my cynicism.

> 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?

Why not? On Unix-like operating systems, you can use devices just like
files.

> If so, is there a DOS way 
> (type?) to send the same preformatted file to a printer?

DOS may not handle the escape codes correctly. unix2dos may be needed
first. Or the equivalent option for dos2unix, which escapes me at the
moment. Assuming it can handle it, though:

type lj_file >lpt1

It's been a while since I've used DOS. Maybe that command isn't right.

> 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.

I'm curious as to what he uses. Is that a Commodore 64?

David
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