Hey John B., This is a pretty good idea. Since the PDF spec is now open, there is no reason why it couldn't happen, except for the fact that there would be an extra step to convert it to PDF as M$ would never include this function. John --- john beamon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> <em>> Know what would be good? Is there a really good way <em>> to export <em>> Abiword/HTML/Gnumeric docs to PDF? It occurs to me <em>> that if the world used <em>> Acrobat to send pictures of docs instead of sending <em>> the binaries around, <em>> we could **READ** them on any OS we wanted. When <em>> you think about it, <em>> sending the editable copy of a company doc around to <em>> people who have to <em>> use the editor to read it is just silly. <em>> <em>> -- <em>> -j <em>> <em>> On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Dustin Puryear wrote: <em>> <em>> > Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 13:18:22 -0500 <em>> > From: Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <em>> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <em>> > To: BRLUG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <em>> > Subject: [brluglist] WINE <em>> > <em>> > I thought I'd share a good experience. I use <em>> Quicken to keep track of my <em>> > finances and usually run it under VMWare. <em>> Unfortunately, this is a bit <em>> > tedious since I have to boot Windows under Linux, <em>> and to be honest, in <em>> > general it's just a pain. So this weekend I <em>> downloaded WINE, installed <em>> > Quicken 2001 on my Windows drive, booted into <em>> Linux, and ran: <em>> > <em>> > $ wine qw.exe <em>> > <em>> > And guess what? It worked. Even the sound worked! <em>> I have found that the <em>> > network functionality doesn't work for Quicken <em>> 2001 (which is a pain if <em>> > you track your portfolio with Quicken), but hell, <em>> it works good enough <em>> > for me. <em>> > <em>> > Regards, Dustin <em>> > <em>> > <em>> <em>> ================================================ <em>> BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group <em>> Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. <em>> Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change <em>> your subscription information. <em>> ================================================ <p>__________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================ <!-- body="end" --> <hr noshade> <ul> <li><strong>Next message:</strong> Tim Fournet: "Re: [brluglist] WINE" <li><strong>Previous message:</strong> Nathaniel B. Klumb: "Re: [brluglist] WINE" <li><strong>In reply to:</strong> john beamon: "Re: [brluglist] WINE" <li><strong>Next in thread:</strong> Tim Fournet: "Re: [brluglist] WINE" <li><strong>Reply:</strong> Tim Fournet: "Re: [brluglist] WINE" <li><strong>Reply:</strong> William DePierri: "RE: [brluglist] WINE" <li><strong>Messages sorted by:</strong> [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] [ attachment ] </ul> <hr noshade>
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