Cool. Thanks for the info. I was wondering if any Office type apps had PDF capabilities. Any others? John <p>--- William DePierri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <em>> The new version of Word Perfect has the PDF <em>> capability built into it. <em>> <em>> Bill <em>> <em>> -----Original Message----- <em>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <em>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On <em>> Behalf Of John Hebert <em>> Sent: 10 July, 2001 09:01 <em>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <em>> Subject: Re: [brluglist] WINE <em>> <em>> Hey John B., <em>> <em>> This is a pretty good idea. Since the PDF spec is <em>> now <em>> open, there is no reason why it couldn't happen, <em>> except for the fact that there would be an extra <em>> step <em>> to convert it to PDF as M$ would never include this <em>> function. <em>> <em>> John <em>> <em>> --- john beamon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <em>> <snip> <em>> > Know what would be good? Is there a really good <em>> way <em>> > to export <em>> > Abiword/HTML/Gnumeric docs to PDF? It occurs to <em>> me <em>> > that if the world used <em>> > Acrobat to send pictures of docs instead of <em>> 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 <em>> 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 <em>> 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 <em>> 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 <em>> 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>> > ================================================ <em>> <em>> <em>> __________________________________________________ <em>> Do You Yahoo!? <em>> Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail <em>> http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ <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>> ================================================ <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> John Hebert: "Re: [brluglist] WINE" <li><strong>Previous message:</strong> john beamon: "Re: [brluglist] WINE" <li><strong>In reply to:</strong> William DePierri: "RE: [brluglist] WINE" <li><strong>Next in thread:</strong> Chopin Cusachs: "Re: [brluglist] WINE" <li><strong>Messages sorted by:</strong> [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] [ attachment ] </ul> <hr noshade>
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