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On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 00:21 +0530, Sebin Jacob wrote: > Correl Draw is used to design brochures and the like and also in > advertisement release. For regular pagination stuff that we do in news > papers and magazines, the most used s/w are Quark Express, Pagemaker > and Indesign. Yes, but I hav

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About pagination s/w @Sasi Kumar Correl Draw is used to design brochures and the like and also in advertisement release. For regular pagination stuff that we do in news papers and magazines, the most used s/w are Quark Express, Pagemaker and Indesign. @Santhosh Malayalam hyphenation is not done

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On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 21:50 -0700, Santhosh Thottingal wrote: > Yeah, I used the Mathrubhumi weekly for the reference of this demo. It > is with same dimensions and tries to imitate its design that time. That is good. I have seen some artists preferring CorelDraw to do page layout. > Yes. > Ink

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On Sep 13, 10:35 pm, "V. Sasi Kumar" wrote: > On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 22:36 +0530, Santhosh Thottingal wrote: > >  I have done a demo typesetting for Mathrubhumi weekly a few months > > back using Inkscape. > >  You can read more about it from here: > >http://thottingal.in/blog/2008/04/08/dtp-mal

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some problems i found was , vfat paritions were read only for users other than root. umask option helped,I am not sure if a novice will find it very easy. Had tough time with kde 4. So had to remove it completely. since i usr only gnome, usability complaints are against gnome.(Others didnt event

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On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 22:36 +0530, Santhosh Thottingal wrote: > I have done a demo typesetting for Mathrubhumi weekly a few months > back using Inkscape. > You can read more about it from here: > http://thottingal.in/blog/2008/04/08/dtp-malayalam-with-inkscape/ Good work, Santhosh. Did you try

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On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 10:19 PM, V. Sasi Kumar wrote: > done with OpenOffice. Inkscape is another option, but they may not be > familiar with it. Those who do typesetting in CorelDraw should be able > to happily layout pages with Inkscape. > I have done a demo typesetting for Mathrubhumi weekly

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On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 21:36 +0530, stranger in black. wrote: > > But pagemaker is not opening in XFCE environment.. And finally > (), they installed windows XP for this purpose I was totally > help less in that situation Interestingly, I have been able to run Pagemaker u

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On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 8:11 PM, Srihari k wrote: > > i sent a reply..dint show up in the list..so am resending it.. > > @shino and junise > > The topic can be translated as: > > 1.Can you tell me the questions you found tough to answer when you > were telling people about free software? > > 2.Th

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>>> 1.It would be nice if you share your views about the philosophical and >>> technical superiority of free software and people like me (if any) >>> could have a clearer view of things. >>> >>> 2.I would also like to know your own true opinion about the minus >>> points(weak points at least) of v

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aha, thats wasnt the real topic. On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 12:03 AM, stranger in black. wrote: > > > On 9/11/09, Shino Jacob wrote: >> >> quote :"Hi all, >> >> As a novice to Free software movement,I have faced many questions from >> my friends when i shared the ideas,and sometimes i was conf

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On 9/11/09, Shino Jacob wrote: > > > quote :"Hi all, > > As a novice to Free software movement,I have faced many questions from > my friends when i shared the ideas,and sometimes i was confused. > > > 1.It would be nice if you share your views about the philosophical and > technical superiority of

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quote :"Hi all, As a novice to Free software movement,I have faced many questions from my friends when i shared the ideas,and sometimes i was confused. 1.It would be nice if you share your views about the philosophical and technical superiority of free software and people like me (if any) could

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On 9/11/09, Shino Jacob wrote: > > > looks like lots of cross posting. it started off with some thing and > look , ended in completely different thing. and no result. > > there are lot of good and bad things about various destop environments in > use > I user gnome. I like most of it. some parts i

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looks like lots of cross posting. it started off with some thing and look , ended in completely different thing. and no result. there are lot of good and bad things about various destop environments in use I user gnome. I like most of it. some parts i would like to be more user friendly these ar

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On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 17:15 +0530, stranger in black. wrote: > We know scribus is the best application for desktop publishing... > But scribus does not support complex fonts such as indic fonts. So > malayalam desktop publishing is still not good.. :-( You can get reasonably good

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We know scribus is the best application for desktop publishing... But scribus does not support complex fonts such as indic fonts. So malayalam desktop publishing is still not good.. :-( -- .. Junise Safvan www.gnuise.co.cc 9746 283 383 --~--~-~

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On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 09:33 +0530, jinesh kj wrote: > > Someone who can tutor him a little and clear his doubts(for his > questions like "how to give the dimension here? is it similar to > autocad?" i was just not able to answer since i was not even sure what > he is talking about). Thought I a

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Having a freshly installed ubuntu how to format my pen drive? I don't think there is an option to right click and format. And please post solution without having to install tools like G parted or so.. Is there an option from Nautilus itself? And KDE users,Is there such an option in KDE? On 9/11/

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hi, I am posting an offtopic on top of one :) My Home PC has both Windows XP and GNU/Linux(Debian Lenny). My father is now using the PC and he wants to move completely to GNU/Linux. Only problem he faces is with CAD. I showed him QCad and he was very eager to use it(he draws only 2D and said lik

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On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 07:43 +0530, Adhin D wrote: > Going through the screenshots of FreeCAD, I think it is a better one, > and i'm going to try it. Good. And please post your assessment to this group. > There used to be a Linux version of Pro/Engineer, most popular > mechanical CAD software. B

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On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 8:43 PM, V. Sasi Kumar wrote: > > On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 19:26 +0530, Anoop Jacob Thomas wrote: > > I think we lack CAD softwares. > > Of course, we have Qcad, but it is only 2D. We have Freecad: > http://www.ar-cad.com/products/freecad.html > but I am not sure how good it

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On Mandriva MLO (2009.1?) just tested playing a vcd I bought (the famous Bruce Lee movie) on VLC, it didn't. I also have my old time favourite xine-ui installed = it simply worked!!! best/harish 2009/9/9 Anoop Jacob Thomas > You can use VLC media player to play VCD. Just insert the disc, open v

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On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 19:26 +0530, Anoop Jacob Thomas wrote: > I think we lack CAD softwares. Of course, we have Qcad, but it is only 2D. We have Freecad: http://www.ar-cad.com/products/freecad.html but I am not sure how good it is. Perhaps, someone here can evaluate it. We also have a second Fre

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@stranger Me just tested a VCD on my samsung dvd drive with ubuntu 9.04.I was doing it for the first time. First it did n't mount but vlc worked. As we are facing issue with copy i decided to mount it. (I dont know how you do it, will it auto mount?) I installed cdfs and gave the command. *sudo mou

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@anoop we were discussing about the file format the vob container format not the discs. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm

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I think we lack CAD softwares. -- Anoop Jacob Thomas Trivandrum http://anoop.caremedia.org --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "il

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You can use VLC media player to play VCD. Just insert the disc, open vlc and select open disc and without changing any options just press okay and the VCD will start working. And you can use vcdimager along with K3B to rip video cd. -- Anoop Jacob Thomas Trivandrum http://anoop.caremedia.org

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OK. I don't play cds from pc so i didn't got the right issue. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To post to this g

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2009/9/9 Santhosh സന്തോഷ് VS > > @Junise Safvan > What about using steps here (last command) for dat files. > Include these in repacked dist. > > http://www.thinkdigit.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-36799.html > > > @ Santhosh I dont think there is much innovative information in that link...

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@Junise Safvan What about using steps here (last command) for dat files. Include these in repacked dist. http://www.thinkdigit.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-36799.html -- http://techplex.wordpress.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom

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@Junise Safvan What about the "The Removable Drives and Media Preferences" window. I think it had an auto play option. Seems you are having more experience facing these situations :) We can jointly solve these. post issues even if it is simple. I just told with the short exp. in linux. I think th

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On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Srihari k wrote: > > On 9/7/09, Rajeev J Sebastian wrote: > > >> The most important aspect of a Linux package (whatever be the format) >> is the metadata such as dependency information. It is one of the >> things that makes Linux generally more useful, and better

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On 9/7/09, Rajeev J Sebastian wrote: > The most important aspect of a Linux package (whatever be the format) > is the metadata such as dependency information. It is one of the > things that makes Linux generally more useful, and better than other > OSes. One more stupid question: What else res

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On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Adhin D wrote: >  I think its too late for that option. But there is a possibility of > "package convertors" (i dont know whether such things exist) that can > convert rpm to deb and vice versa. I've opened the packages as archives and > found out that the contents

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2009/9/7 Santhosh സന്തോഷ് VS > > > These are just small issues and I dont think to care much. > This has to be cared from the newbie point of view. An school child who bought the remastered dvd from LBSCE called me (the very first night) and asked how to play/copy VCD's ( he can copy/play the vi

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2009/9/7 Santhosh സന്തോഷ് VS : > > @rajeev > Pardus Linux uses KDE in default distribution, right? > Can't find a Gnome distribution from their site. Pardus is KDE only (thankfully). Regards Rajeev J Sebastian --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ "Freedom is the only law". "Fr

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I think we can make versions like junise's that will help end users work like windows versions. It may be lacking some 'freedom' considering standards like mp3 but as our society is stuck with such formats we will need remastered versions supporting them too. I think all who engaged in distributing

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On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Srihari k wrote: > > Why don't we have a single standard option for installing software > over the wide choices of Distros available? > > Like say, we have .deb .rpm etc.. Why shouldn't there be a standard > Package that we can install in any GNU/Linux system?If i

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On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 5:42 PM, Syam Krishnan wrote: > > On 09/07/2009 05:19 PM, Ershad K wrote: > > Dunno whether it's foolish, how would it be if there is a distro which > > supports all kinds of packages like .deb, .rpm, .tar.gz ? ;) > > Debian has a tool called Alien that can convert

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On 9/7/09, Santhosh സന്തോഷ് VS wrote: > components like mp3 decoders will made change in the license , but as it is > a repacked one we may include all like multimedia support. Dont know if > Junise Safvan's ubuntu disk had these components. Yes it does.Currently i am using junise's remastered

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Ershad, thanks --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To post to this group, send email to ilug-tvm@googlegroups.com T

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> > Debian has a tool called Alien that can convert other package formats to > deb. > http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/alien/ > http://wiki.debian.org/Alien > Ok, that's solved now :) APTonCD can help us to distribute debian packages hence solving the net-issue

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On 09/07/2009 05:19 PM, Ershad K wrote: > Dunno whether it's foolish, how would it be if there is a distro which > supports all kinds of packages like .deb, .rpm, .tar.gz ? ;) Debian has a tool called Alien that can convert other package formats to deb. http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/ali

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this will not be ending :D --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To post to this group, send email to ilug-tvm@google

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Dunno whether it's foolish, how would it be if there is a distro which supports all kinds of packages like .deb, .rpm, .tar.gz ? ;) 2009/9/7 Santhosh സന്തോഷ് VS > I saw in many forums people are demanding in making the distros a single > standard. But then how the OS license will imply.

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I saw in many forums people are demanding in making the distros a single standard. But then how the OS license will imply. One can copy the source,modify it and create a new version so a new linux. :) so I think this cannot be stopped or controlled after all this is meant by open. What we have to d

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don't like it. Nobody even the FOSS team is well versed with the display > issues (in all distros). GUI is not the power of linux. But for a common > man it is. Yes i didnt got reply fro the post. :) OpenSUSE Live CD issue --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ "Freedom is the

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One thing is there should be standardisation in linux. It is the base of all. But it appears that slightly linux is deveating from standardisation. For example the configuration file formats and directories are differenet on different distros. Commercial linux clones have thereown view about thi

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@rajeev Pardus Linux uses KDE in default distribution, right? Can't find a Gnome distribution from their site. -- http://techplex.wordpress.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this messag

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On 9/7/09, Rajeev J Sebastian wrote: > Yes, this is what most distro teams do ... they make packages. I > recommend the use of Pardus's pisi system because of its major ease of > creating new packages (not to mention a new IDE thats in the works). > Why dont you start making lots of pisi package

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On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Srihari k wrote: > Why dont we discuss some philosophy here so that someone finds this as > a study material? Because its entirely pointless. People do things for many reasons which may not at all have anything to do with any philosophy. > Let me put the questio

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And about net free, Yes i think now I uses net for many reasons to fix OS like mp3 support etc. But i think zyxware will be having repacked distributions which contains all the needed packages , If not there, what about thinking for one. I think components like mp3 decoders will made change in the

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I dont this updates are must. * I dont think --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To post to this group, send email

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> I dont this updates are must. In windows/ any other OS update is a usual > case and it will not be avoided as fixing continues after releases. @santosh Thanks!! And there i have my answer. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged"

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i couldn't convince him terminal is my favorite in Linux]] This may made him confused thinking if terminal is the interesting stuff in linux :) -- http://techplex.wordpress.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug

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.I CANT download 350MB of updates my Ubuntu is asking me to do.And I like many Indians cant afford a high speed connection. I dont this updates are must. In windows/ any other OS update is a usual case and it will not be avoided as fixing continues after releases. -- http://techplex.wordpress.

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> No offense to you, but your words and requests seems to be > contradictory. You seem not to be confident about your knowledge on > the so-called "philosophical" aspects of FLOSS. At the same time, you > want to form a uneducated opinion about it via second or third hand > experiences which may o

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>> One weak point that I have noted is the playing of VCD's In windows, > if we double click the .dat file inside the mpeg folder, the video will be > played. But here we have to open some player and give the link to the vcd. > It is tediaus work a newbie... > > These are just small issues

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On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Srihari k wrote: > > I would also like to know your own true opinion about the minus > points(weak points at least) of various GNU/linux Distros in general > or any one of them in particular. > > One weak point that I have noted is the playing of VCD's In wind

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"I have faced many questions from my friends" - but you did n't told what it is :) --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" gro

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Iam a .NET developer , but still I like opensource and want to support or learn opensource projects / products . I think this is a must for the society. I think each one is attracted by their own spirit on the context. I quit phtoshop using gimp, using ubuntu (early fedora) in home. Its a spirit of

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On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Srihari k wrote: > > Hi all, > As a novice to Free software movement,I have faced many questions from > my friends when i shared the ideas,and sometimes i was confused. > > I humbly request you not to: > Reply me with links to articles,so that i can know it myself.P