Right, I'm familiar with all the utilities that convert to PDF. I meant the office type apps. Which makes me wonder if Open Office has this capability? John --- Tim Fournet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <em>> ps2pdf? part of the ghostscript package <em>> <em>> <em>> On 10 Jul 2001 07:01:05 -0700, John Hebert wrote: <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 <em>> 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. <em>> When <em>> > > you think about it, <em>> > > sending the editable copy of a company doc <em>> 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 <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>> ================================================ <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> Chopin Cusachs: "Re: [brluglist] WINE" <li><strong>Previous message:</strong> John Hebert: "RE: [brluglist] WINE" <li><strong>In reply to:</strong> Tim Fournet: "Re: [brluglist] WINE" <li><strong>Next in thread:</strong> Chopin Cusachs: "Re: [brluglist] WINE" <li><strong>Reply:</strong> Chopin Cusachs: "Re: [brluglist] WINE" <li><strong>Messages sorted by:</strong> [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] [ attachment ] </ul> <hr noshade>
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