[newbie] pdf editing

2005-01-08 Thread Martin Hardie
Hi All I want to copy from pdf files ... i recall that in Abode Acrobat I could do this sometimes but with KGhostView I cannot at all. Are there and pdf programs out there that let me copy and paste into other formats or is there a way to save as into another format? I see that I can download

Re: [newbie] pdf editing

2005-01-08 Thread JR
This seems to be the best non-Adobe solution. http://applications.linux.com/article.pl?sid=05/01/06/0612209from=rss Adobe has release a brand new beta version of their pdf editor. I dont have a link but they have a linux version too for the first time. Jarlath On Saturday 08 January 2005 04:15

Re: [newbie] pdf editing

2005-01-08 Thread Paul Smith
I want to copy from pdf files ... i recall that in Abode Acrobat I could do this sometimes but with KGhostView I cannot at all. Are there and pdf programs out there that let me copy and paste into other formats or is there a way to save as into another format? Martin, You have Acrobat

[newbie] Back again...Booting slow

2005-01-08 Thread Rhein Christophe
Hello, I'm back to the list after not knowing why I didn't access to the list a few months?!! I have a new ACER Aspire 1680 notebook since 2 weeks and I installed MDK 10.1 community. Of course I had Win XP installed on the machine and MDK installed lilo to boot the system. Then I decided to remove

[newbie] Norton Ghost

2005-01-08 Thread Al Yaemes
Hi all, Is there a freeware app similar to Norton Ghost? TIA Shaz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] acpi / upgrade kernel

2005-01-08 Thread JR
On Friday 07 January 2005 09:19 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 08 January 2005 12:39 am, JR wrote: Greg, thanks. I've just downloaded them and I ran the kde laptop battery program. I tried standby, suspend and hibernate. The screen goes to console with a message saying that it is

Re: [newbie] pdf editing

2005-01-08 Thread Paul Smith
On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 12:05:26 +0100, Martin Hardie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found acroc at in tar.gz at the abode site but i cant find it via urpmi urpmi acroread no package named acroread You can find acroread at:

Re: [newbie] pdf editing

2005-01-08 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
Martin Hardie wrote: Hi All I want to copy from pdf files ... i recall that in Abode Acrobat I could do this sometimes but with KGhostView I cannot at all. Are there and pdf programs out there that let me copy and paste into other formats or is there a way to save as into another format? I see

Re: [newbie] Is this possible?

2005-01-08 Thread et
On Friday 07 January 2005 08:09 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 09:00:20 +1100 Stephen Kühn disseminated the following: I end up ripping movies to AVI to view on my network... Quality is high, speed is good. Your TV has an ethernet port?! You *are* good... mine does... you never

Re: [newbie] Is this possible?

2005-01-08 Thread Lanman
JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 09:00:20 +1100 Stephen Kühn disseminated the following: I end up ripping movies to AVI to view on my network... Quality is high, speed is good. Your TV has an ethernet port?! You *are* good... Joe; I realise that you were just kidding with this last post, or

[newbie] USB ISDN TA

2005-01-08 Thread Lloyd Heys
Hi All I am a complete newcomer to Linux and have installed Mandrake 10.1 Official (hoping to move away from windows eventually). The system is up and running reasonably well (I think!) but I am having a problem with my ISDN terminal adapter. (which works fine in Windows). Mandrake detects

Re: [newbie] Is this possible?

2005-01-08 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 08 January 2005 13:14, et wrote: On Friday 07 January 2005 08:09 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 09:00:20 +1100 Stephen Kühn disseminated the following: I end up ripping movies to AVI to view on my network... Quality is high, speed is good. Your TV has an

Re: [newbie] Install Question

2005-01-08 Thread John Bowden
On Saturday 08 Jan 2005 04:00, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Friday 07 January 2005 09:23 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a new Mandrake CD 10.1 Linux and I have XP already on my system. I installed a FAT32 Hard Drive on the Second IDE interface as a Slave since the CDROM is primary. Can

[newbie] Burning disks Q ?

2005-01-08 Thread John Bowden
Hi Gang     I use a program on that other o/s ( the one who's name should never be spoken ) that checks my CD DVD disks after burning them to check for errors , called CdCheck. It will do a basic read every sector, or crc, or compare check and even try to recover data on a damaged disk.

Re: [newbie] Back again...Booting slow

2005-01-08 Thread John Bowden
On Saturday 08 Jan 2005 11:55, Rhein Christophe wrote: Hello, I'm back to the list after not knowing why I didn't access to the list a few months?!! I have a new ACER Aspire 1680 notebook since 2 weeks and I installed MDK 10.1 community. Of course I had Win XP installed on the machine and

Re: [newbie] pdf editing

2005-01-08 Thread deedee E
On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 10:15:12 +0100, Martin Hardie wrote: I want to copy from pdf files ... i recall that in Abode Acrobat I could do this sometimes but with KGhostView I cannot at all. Are there and pdf programs out there that let me copy and paste into other formats or is there a way to save

Re: [newbie] konqueror and info

2005-01-08 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 06 Jan 2005 23:48, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Thursday 06 January 2005 20:48, Anne Wilson wrote: snip For some strange reason I can't type *anything* into a konqueror address line under 3.2.3. Is this a problem of my system, or do

Re: [newbie] Install Question

2005-01-08 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks, I certainly appreciate everyone's comments on this thread. I now have a further question. How can I prevent the install of Mandrake Linux from writing a boot record on the Primary drive? Therte is already an XP boot record which permits me to boot from any attached device. Is it

Re: [newbie] konqueror and info

2005-01-08 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Saturday 08 January 2005 19:01, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 06 Jan 2005 23:48, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Thursday 06 January 2005 20:48, Anne Wilson wrote: snip For some strange reason I can't type *anything* into a konqueror address line under 3.2.3. Is this a problem of my

Re: [newbie] Back again...Booting slow

2005-01-08 Thread Erylon Hines
On Saturday 08 January 2005 08:40 am, John Bowden wrote: | On Saturday 08 Jan 2005 11:55, Rhein Christophe wrote: | Hello, | I'm back to the list after not knowing why I didn't access to the list a | few months?!! | I have a new ACER Aspire 1680 notebook since 2 weeks and I installed MDK |

Re: [newbie] Is this possible?

2005-01-08 Thread JoeHill
On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 08:14:06 -0500 et disseminated the following: I end up ripping movies to AVI to view on my network... Quality is high, speed is good. Your TV has an ethernet port?! You *are* good... mine does... you never heard of mythTV? open source personal video recording and

Re: [newbie] USB ISDN TA

2005-01-08 Thread Erylon Hines
On Saturday 08 January 2005 06:15 am, Lloyd Heys wrote: | Hi All | | I am a complete newcomer to Linux and have installed Mandrake 10.1 Official | (hoping to move away from windows eventually). | | The system is up and running reasonably well (I think!) but I am having a | problem with my ISDN

Re: [newbie] konqueror and info

2005-01-08 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 08 Jan 2005 18:28, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Welcome back, Anne. Thanks - but I could have done without this minor heart-attack :-) First thing I would do : boot your install CD into rescue mode, mount your hd and go to /home/Anne.

Re: [newbie] Re: Samba 3.0+ on 9.1

2005-01-08 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 07 Jan 2005 16:15, John Bowden wrote: On Thursday 06 Jan 2005 17:13, Miroslav Skoric wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote (long ago): Has anyone upgraded the standard Samba 2.2.8 on MDK 9.1 to 3.0+? stephen kuhn - proprietor Hi Stephen,

[newbie] need help with /etc/hosts, hosts.config resolv.config files

2005-01-08 Thread Angus Auld
Greetings, I wonder if some kind soul here could instruct/inform me on how I can properly config these files?? What should they contain and how should they look on my 10.1 system? I just setup ADSL broadband, and I fear I messed things up a bit. ;-) My broadband is working OK, but my local

Re: [newbie] konqueror and info

2005-01-08 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Saturday 08 January 2005 20:08, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 08 Jan 2005 18:28, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Welcome back, Anne. Thanks - but I could have done without this minor heart-attack :-) First thing I would do : boot your install CD into rescue mode, mount your hd and go to

Re: [newbie] Problems with ./configure (2)

2005-01-08 Thread Rodolfo Medina
frengoGorgia wrote: My Mandrake 10.1 4-CDs came from LinuxC n.42 http://www.oltrelinux.com/ 8^) Yes, thank you, last month I bought that magazine and got the four CDs: but it's Mdk 10.1 Community, and someone says that community is a BETA version of Mandrake and not recommended for normal use.

Re: [newbie] Problems with ./configure (2)

2005-01-08 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 08 Jan 2005 20:55, Rodolfo Medina wrote: frengoGorgia wrote: My Mandrake 10.1 4-CDs came from LinuxC n.42 http://www.oltrelinux.com/ 8^) Yes, thank you, last month I bought that magazine and got the four CDs: but it's Mdk 10.1

Re: [newbie] batch res reduction

2005-01-08 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 08:49:43 -0800 Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a pile of high res pics to reduce to 800x600 or 640x480 for the website. Anyone have a batch script or prog to do a directory at a time? http://jpgtn.sourceforge.net/ jpgtn -p -f -H -s 400 -q 90 *.jpg

Re: [newbie] need help with /etc/hosts, hosts.config resolv.config files

2005-01-08 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 08 January 2005 19:24, Angus Auld wrote: Greetings, I wonder if some kind soul here could instruct/inform me on how I can properly config these files?? What should they contain and how should they look on my 10.1 system? I just setup ADSL broadband, and I fear I messed things up a

[newbie] Mandrake Linux 10.1 will not install.

2005-01-08 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have Mandrake Linux 10.1 on CD and I also downloded the DVD ISO. On either I boot from teh CD and start the Install. It starts the process, then reboots and the XP Boot Menu comes up, the CDROM (Or DVD) reboots and the process starts all over again. I have removed all drives and

Re: [newbie] Install Question

2005-01-08 Thread mikkel
Thanks, I certainly appreciate everyone's comments on this thread. I now have a further question. How can I prevent the install of Mandrake Linux from writing a boot record on the Primary drive? Therte is already an XP boot record which permits me to boot from any attached device. Is

Re: [newbie] Re: Samba 3.0+ on 9.1

2005-01-08 Thread John Bowden
On Saturday 08 Jan 2005 19:11, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 07 Jan 2005 16:15, John Bowden wrote: On Thursday 06 Jan 2005 17:13, Miroslav Skoric wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote (long ago): Has anyone upgraded the standard Samba 2.2.8 on MDK 9.1 to 3.0+? stephen kuhn - proprietor

Re: [newbie] need help with /etc/hosts, hosts.config resolv.config files

2005-01-08 Thread mikkel
On Saturday 08 January 2005 19:24, Angus Auld wrote: Greetings, I wonder if some kind soul here could instruct/inform me on how I can properly config these files?? What should they contain and how should they look on my 10.1 system? I just setup ADSL broadband, and I fear I messed things

Re: [newbie] need help with /etc/hosts, hosts.config resolv.config files

2005-01-08 Thread Angus Auld
- Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] need help with /etc/hosts, hosts.config resolv.config files Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 23:09:52 + On Saturday 08 January 2005 19:24, Angus Auld wrote: Greetings, I wonder

[newbie] move on internet

2005-01-08 Thread jallan6977
Can a live cd of mandrake move be used to access the net? I was exploring this evening and, actually using the manual for lin 8.2, I sent the command cat/proc/pci as root. It was supposed to return an io port and irq number for my pci modem. What it did do, was tell me there was no such

Re: [newbie] Install Question

2005-01-08 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks Mikkel, I will try subscribing to the expert list and see if someone can help. Cy -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't remember if the standard install offers the option, or if you need to pick expert, but there is an option to have lilo install to the boot partition. I believe

Re: [newbie] need help with /etc/hosts, hosts.config resolv.config files

2005-01-08 Thread Chris
On Saturday 08 January 2005 06:29 pm, Angus Auld wrote: Thank you Derek for the reply. I am really new at this network stuff. :-) I have been using dial-up for all my years of computing, and I just started using braodband now that it has finally come here to the boonies. I edited some of the

Re: [newbie] need help with /etc/hosts, hosts.config resolv.config files

2005-01-08 Thread Angus Auld
- Original Message - From: Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] need help with /etc/hosts, hosts.config resolv.config files Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 20:42:45 -0600 On Saturday 08 January 2005 06:29 pm, Angus Auld wrote: Thank you Derek for the

Re: [newbie] need help with /etc/hosts, hosts.config resolv.config files

2005-01-08 Thread mikkel
On Saturday 08 January 2005 06:29 pm, Angus Auld wrote: Thank you Derek for the reply. I am really new at this network stuff. :-) I have been using dial-up for all my years of computing, and I just started using braodband now that it has finally come here to the boonies. I edited some of

Re: [newbie] Install Question

2005-01-08 Thread mikkel
Thanks Mikkel, I will try subscribing to the expert list and see if someone can help. Cy -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't remember if the standard install offers the option, or if you need to pick expert, but there is an option to have lilo install to the boot partition. I

[newbie] Computer shuts off after a few seconds

2005-01-08 Thread Scott Wagner
Hello Today I put a third hard drive and an additional 256MB of ram (there were already 2 256MB sticks) in my computer, after which it would not boot. I took the new ram out and it booted ok. I took one of the original sticks out then to look at it make sure I had gotten the right kind, and

Re: [newbie] need help with /etc/hosts, hosts.config resolv.config files

2005-01-08 Thread Margot
Angus Auld wrote: - Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] need help with /etc/hosts, hosts.config resolv.config files Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 23:09:52 + On Saturday 08 January 2005 19:24, Angus Auld wrote: