On Wed, 2002-12-25 at 02:56, Rob Lindsay wrote: > MD8.1 does everything I do on W2K and MacOS except some DTP work and > Net2Phone [important when you are thousands of miles away from family in > Riyadh]. Thought that I might be able to do this with win4lin/Win98SE but W4L > seems challenged when asked to record. Are there any ways under Linux of > doing PC2Phone? > GnomeMeeting, LinPhone, Freewebphone (http://www.angelfire.com/biz/WebWatch/) to name a few...there's heaps of 'e out there - just a matter of finding the right one...
DTP? Well, any application that runs under linux is able to print to pdf - printing to pdf or ps and converting to pdf is rather normal for linux. > I cope with the DTP on MD using InDesign on W4L. However, that's a cop-out! > I'd like to move to a totally MD solution outputting files to PDF so that > they are readable on the other platforms. What should I use? > Scribus, KVivio, Kontour, Kougar, StarOffice, OO - they can do the job. > Word/Excel/Powerpoint are admirably covered by OpenOffice.org both on MD8.1 > and W2K and probably MacOS too. > > Finally, how do I play music direct from CD with XMMS. Have only had success > reading tracks in with X-CD-Roast and then selecting them through XMMS. > gcd, kscd, noatun, xmms (you need to configure it to play audio cd's - which is in preferences) > Hope this doesn't have too many threads under the one cover! > > Rob in Riyadh wishing you a Joyeux Noel > -- Wed Dec 25 07:15:01 EST 2002 7:15am up 1:36, 4 users, load average: 0.10, 0.20, 0.15 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. -------------------------------- | __ __ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | | icq: 5483808 | ;"""/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' " " | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU -------------------------------- Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn "MacDonald has the gift on compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts." -- Winston Churchill
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