Not happenin' on Windows

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]]`

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