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  • From: "David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] how to convert from .doc to image
  • Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 20:07:17 -0500

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

> I tried Abiword in BL3 (don't have xset yet in BL2 to set it up
> with) and it displays the file perfectly on screen but I don't have
> BL3 set up to print ps files. So I saved as html. When I try to
> view with lynx I get a lot of garbage.

Why didn't you print it to a PS file? You don't need lpr to do that,
just AbiWord.

> I am about to try DOS wvare next, and will then resign myself to
> translating from the screen between two computers. Nice to have
> Abiword, which is supposedly based on wvware. I wonder why it can
> display images but not save them as images. Maybe rtf?

I tried inserting an image in a document, then I right-clicked on the
image and chose Save Image As... Does it handle Word files differently?

> Abiword just stopped working as soon as I changed the file name to .rtf
> (won't let me choose to save it as rtf) and now it refuses to load
> from rxvt in X. Or from the menu. And when I try to exit X
> (Ctl-Alt-Del) I get a blank blue screen with a few green stripes at
> the top. Fun with Xvesa again.
>
> ps - no X running.
>
> Since it is the weekend they can't send me anything again until
> Monday and someone else wants me to translate two large colored
> jpeg files for Tuesday which were originally a black and white
> 2-page document and are probably now too fuzzy to read since jpegs
> are lossy by default. I long for the good old days when people
> sent everything by FedEx and I had to send back perfect typed copy
> using Whiteout. At least I could read things.

David
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