On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Amit Sharma <[email protected]>wrote:
> > > My Questions: > > 1. Can Coreldraw and Pagemaker be used on Linux using Wine? Is it > successful? What about fonts issue? It does work on wine but he probably wouldn't be happy with it since it would be quite slow. I tried it on a machine with over 3 GB Ram and a pretty decent c2d processor, but the performance was still not satisfactory enough to completely move over to linux for the DTP work. > > 2. Can external HDD or one of the computer to be used in such a way > that atleast the data he backs up say one a week, remains uninfected? Not sure what you are asking here, but if you mean that you want his files to be backed up from the windows machine to the linux machine, then it is possible. Install an ftp server on the linux machine. Get cobian backup 8 or 9 and set it to do scheduled backups every day or twice to the linux system and tell it how many previous backups should be saved. Cobian even zips the backups before transferring to ftp. The system will be a bit slow while the backups are going on but cobian has options to reduce the performance hit too. > > 3. Any other solution? One thing I did on my windows machines which reduced the risk of virus infections a lot is this. Open secpol.msc as administrator, set up a software restriction policy with default level as restricted and set specific rules from where programs are allowed to run. For eg, only from c:\program files and c:\windows etc. That will in effect stop any program running from the pen drives and CD drives. Also make sure that the account the user is signed into is a limited user or atleast a power user, definitely not an administrator. I recollect that both coreldraw and pagemaker have issues with running under limited accounts but it is just a matter of giving limited user groups full access to a couple of obscure directories and sections of the registry. If you plan to do this, I could probably help out since 2 of our DTP machines are running with that config. Most print shops expect files in .cdr or .pmd so couldnt move over to foss solutions too. :( oops. long mail. :P _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
