OpenOffice 1.0 Killa Feecha (On Linux, anyhow)

Post #38,230 by pwhysall 5/10/02 12:36:54 PM Reply	OpenOffice 1.0 Killa Feecha (On Linux, anyhow) File->Print Tick "To file", click OK. In the file save dialogue box, choose "PDF" as file type. Peter [link\|http://www.debian.org\|Shill For Hire] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal]
Post #38,233 by acagle 5/10/02 12:57:12 PM Reply	Re: OpenOffice 1.0 Killa Feecha (On Linux, anyhow) Oh man. . . .that would be way cool. I like it so far. The toolbars are a little more cluttered than I usually like, and I haven't figured out how to modify them yet. WordPro/AmiPro is my fave design in that regard. So far, almost everything I've tried to do has been pretty straightforward to accomplish, or at least easy to find how to do in Help. This was one of the BEST things about AmiPro and one of the almost-worst things about WordPro. It might have had one lil' bug so far. I kept getting multiple cursor lines yesterday at work, but it never happened at home and hasn't been doing it today either. I think I'm going to try using it to modify my dissertation to book form. Columns, and lots of figures and tables. That should give it a good workout.
Post #38,286 by Ashton 5/10/02 6:34:08 PM Reply	If you do that - I have a friend who'd be dying to know if it's feasible, so any report will be welcomed! Ashton who hopes that the Linux-version ain't too superior to the toy-OS one (?)
Post #44,384 by wharris2 7/3/02 3:11:37 PM Reply	Quit feeding me nostalgia I loved Ami Pro. Famous last RPG quotes: "I'll just shoot this fireball down the dungeon passageway..."
Post #38,298 by kmself 5/11/02 12:05:10 AM Reply	Not happenin' on Windows I've got XP running under VMWare here. It's nice to be able to swat the damned thing. OO offers no print to file as PDF option here. I wung it and tried giving it a ".pdf" extension to see if it had brains but no guts or glory, no dice. Pity, as that would be an awesome feature here. Otherwise, it seems pretty nice. I've minimized the Footprint of the Evil One by forgoing the Brand X office suite. Got me OO, AbiWord, Mozilla, and K-Meleon (latter's a disappointment -- even Mozilla's better, and K-Meleon's way, way behind Galeon's charms). Natch, also Cygwin, TightVNC (though I haven't tunneled in to my virutual system from Linux yet, just wait though ;-), and RAdmin (not having to walk to another system to provide remote support is really nice). Also GSView and AFPL Ghostscript, natch. They don't do as nice a job on PDFs though as xpdf does under Debian. `-- Karsten M. Self [link\|mailto:kmself@ix.netcom.com\|kmself@ix.netcom.com] [link\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/\|[link\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/]] What part of "gestalt" don't you understand? Keep software free. Oppose the CBDTPA. Kill S.2048 dead. [link\|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html\|[link\|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html\|http://www.eff.org/...a_alert.html]]`
Post #38,397 by tonytib 5/12/02 8:37:10 PM Reply	I'll have to check out TightVNC and the VNC/TightVNC settings since although performance is acceptable (over 100BaseT), I'd still like more speed. Tony
Post #38,400 by kmself 5/12/02 9:18:56 PM Reply	Inflection points TightVNC offers the following enchancements over vanilla VNC: JPG compression -- you can specify levels of compression. Using RAdmin, it appears that it is setting this level automatically depending on the perceived network speed. Local connections tend to have pretty good graphics presentation, while remote sites clearly have a lot of simplification going on. Plain backgrounds/decorations render far better. Map mouse clicks, not movement. How precisely this works I'm not sure as the remote site sees mouse movements, but locally, the mouse is being echoed, er, locally. The feedback lag of having to display a remote tracking of the mouse under VNC is a killer. Makes for much better precision of movement. Otherwise, the products are pretty similar, but the enchancements are significant. `-- Karsten M. Self [link\|mailto:kmself@ix.netcom.com\|kmself@ix.netcom.com] [link\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/\|[link\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/]] What part of "gestalt" don't you understand? Keep software free. Oppose the CBDTPA. Kill S.2048 dead. [link\|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html\|[link\|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html\|http://www.eff.org/...a_alert.html]]`
Post #38,399 by folkert 5/12/02 9:10:08 PM Reply	Re: OpenOffice 1.0 Killa Feecha (On Linux, anyhow) Well, it actually appears to be a KDE feature. As I can print to PDF from most apps that use the KDE envoirpnment. In KDE 3, The Configurator has options to define the default printing... well, "Print as PDF" is an option. Dunno, if we can in GNOME... haven't looked. Been to enthralled with KDE as of late. KDE 3 just feels... well umm... gosh... better. Can't quite put my finger on it, it just IS better, no quantitative reasoning. `greg, curley95@attbi.com -- REMEMBER ED CURRY!!!`

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