I dunno about Canadian, but for US address correction right from USPS, all you need is the ability to send and receive/parse XML. I've done it in other languages, but should be quite doable in something cross platform like perl. You need an account, which is free to set up, and are limited to 5 addresses at a time.
-----Original Message----- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Allan Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 3:42 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [users] Re: http://www.saveXP.org/ [WAS: Wrong OS or OS Version] John Boyle wrote: > To ALL: I have found that there are, already, all the programs needed on > Linux for anybody's computing needs, except a viable voice dictation > program! And how have you found this out? There may be almost everything needed for your needs, but you aren't everybody. Again, where is the high-speed printer mail-merge support? Where is the Canadian address correction software? Is there even any US address correction software? Where are the Linux programs that support the advanced features of OpenType, like InDesign and other Adobe program do? (Yes, I understand that this is coming in Scribus. But it isn't there yet, and I can't really expect it to be fully up to InDesign's standards on its first appearance in Scribus.) Are these ligatures and alternate glyphs in fonts currently available in any program in Linux? I know that the operating system itself purports to support them. But does, for example, Artstream yet support them? Others have different things they use in Windows, that they don't yet find conveniently available in Linux (or at all available in Linux), and have stated so in this discussion. They use particular features of some Windows programs in their businesses or hobbies, which they believe aren't available under Linux. Maybe we are all wrong. But provide information about why we are wrong rather than a blanket statement, unsupported, that you have found out that we are wrong. Note: I am NOT in any way anti-Linux, rather the opposite. But it does not do Linux any good to post things about it that aren't true. Jim Allan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
