On Sunday 31 Oct 2004 09:45, John Layt wrote: > > I run Win4Lin for 1 reason only, and that's the Genealogy program I use, > none of the Linux programs come close to the features I need. I > occasionally mess around with designing a KDE replacement for it, I have a > database schema and some screen mock-ups, but time is too limited at the > moment to build the actual working bits in-between :-( > That's a project I put aside, but would love to get back to one day.
> I know there was a lot of politics inside Lotus against either releasing > the Wine version (support issues, "diminished" user experience, etc), or > properly porting to Linux (Windows bigots). But then Lotus didn't really > seem to know what they were doing with anything, like releasing a Linux > Notes server but not a client. Shame really, waste of a good product, they > could have gotten a head start on Star/OpenOffice. I'll have a poke around > to see if I can find any more information about it, shame I had to delete > my copy when I left :-( > My son-in-law used to curse it if he tried to do anything on my box - a M$O user, naturally - but I watched the contortions he went through on his own, thinking that to be good, and thought how easily I could have done the same thing on mine. So many things seemed to be handled better in the Lotus package, but of course you are always up against the fact that people want to stick with what they know, no matter how bad it really is. > I find it strange nothing in Linux does booklet printing, that's just > criminal! It's just the sort of thing DTP was created for. > Agreed > As for the photo printing, you should try Digikam and its Print Wizard. > You select a bunch of photo's, then start the wizard, tell it the page size > (currently only A4 or letter) and the required image size, and Digikam > arranges them on the page(s), then lets you adjust the cropping for each > image by dragging an outline box. It's not perfect, but handy. You need > to have the digikam and digikam-plugins rpms installed, it has some other > great tools like calendar printing, mpeg movie encoding or slideshow to > CD/DVD, web-page generation, batch effects processing, etc, etc. Of > course, there's always a catch, and the current 0.6.2 version of Digikam > has poor album management: it doesn't allow for nested folders, and leaves > album data files all over the place. This is solved in the 0.7 version, > currently in beta testing (compile only, no rpms available yet) and due out > Real Soon Now. And even better news is that all those cool plugins are now > a shared library between several of the KDE image programs like Gwenview > and KimDaBa, so if you prefer those for image management/viewing, you can > still get all the cool stuff (or will when the next versions hit the > streets). > That's certainly worth looking at. Thanks for that, John. It sounds as though it will already do most of what I want. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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