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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 19:25:36 +0000 (UTC)


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.

Thanks.
......

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.
Probably by Steven - it looks like his style.
....

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
Why write a script when netpbm comes with something already?

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.

It may print a test image. The man or html pages are online and I could not understand but I think you were supposed to use it with pbmtoppa to calibrate the printer in case things were not already centered right.

http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/pbmtoppa.html (or maybe docs)


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:

busybox has dos2unix but not unix2dos
dos2unix -d changes unix to dos format


type lj_file >lpt1

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

I will experiment.

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?
He collects Commodores - could be a 128.

David
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