Paul Lussier wrote:
[...]
I'm more inclined to blame AbiWord... It sounds like it's generating
bad postscript. Especially since it sounds like you can't even export
to PS and open it with a ps application (incidently, did you try using
gv or ghostview rather than xpdf?).
I'm inclined to blame AbiWord, too, now. I'm not the only one to have a
problem with AbiWord's PostScript output.
http://www.abiword.org/twiki/bin/view/Abiword/FaqPostscriptOutputProblems
Now, the question is, do I go to the bother of installing Open Office
just because I occasionally need to print some word processed
document? Or, do I just redo everything in TeX?
Depends upon what you want? If you know TeX pretty well, it may well
be a lot faster. I find OO to be a pain when you need to do any
heavy-duty formatting. I keep my resume in text and in PDF. I use
LyX to create the PDF from the LaTeX which LyX exports. I tried
migrating to OO, and it didn't pass my 30-min. test (after 30 min. of
fighting with OO, I still didn't have a decent layout of my resume!).
I know TeX well enough. I reformatted the letters that I was working on
yesterday to get more than desireable output. Printed with no trouble,
too. Think I'll stick to TeX from now on.
Of course, LyX isn't without it's frustrations either. It's often
difficult to change a default template without knowing how to hack the
LaTeX code...
Y'know, I actually tried LyX about 6 or 7 years ago, before I tried
AbiWord. I should probably give it another go. It was a niftly little
program back then, and I imagine it hass improved. It had some rough
edges as I recall.
I was actually pondering writing my own TeX editor or giving LyX another
try even before reading your message. (The world really doesn't need
another text editor or word processor, does it?)
Right now, I'm inclined to ask, along with Jamie Zawinski, "What year
is this?" Why is this stuff such a pain, and do I really want to put
up with this?
One solution is to not print. I find I waste significantly less paper
and ink that way :)
I really don't print that much personally. At home, I mostly print stuff
for my wife by plugging her iBook into my LaserJet via USB. I have it
connected via Parallel Port to my workstation and mostly just send it
postscript or plain text on the rare occasion that I print something for
myself.--I actually had a working Samba config for it, too, and could
print from my Windows gaming PC before that PC bit the dust.....That,
however, is another story.
Well, I guess I'm off to reformat my resume in TeX!
Cheers!
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