Re: [newbie] ATTENTION all newbies!
There's no need to bother with this. Both GNOME and KDE have their own PDF viewers (ggv and kghostview respectively) which use GhostScript for the translation. There is also xpdf, which can read some files that the others can't (since it doesn't use GhostScript). On Sat, 28 Jul 2001 09:31, Romanator wrote: John, You will need the following: acroread 4.0.5-6mdk and acroread-nppdf 4.0.5-6mdk (for Netscape plugin) Roman Registered Linux User #179293 su is not the root of your problem but the start of a new journey John Rigby wrote: Hi Sridhar, In its default state, my M8 won't recognise PDF format. Guess I'll have to install it - so many people use the silly thing today... :-) But I would have thought it would have been a default. On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 21:21, you manipulated electrons to produce: IBM have just released a great FAQ titled Transitioning from Windows to Linux. I had a look at it and it appears quite Newbie-friendly: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-faq/?openl=2 52,t=grl,p=LinuxFAQ -- Cheers, John http://counter.li.org GO HERE IF YOU SUPPORT LINUX! Fablor is now Webhosting?? What on earth for?? Info here: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (it's only an Autoresponder) :-) -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
Re: [newbie] ATTENTION all newbies!
It _is_ a default. If you use Konqueror, you should be able to open a PDF file inside it.. Otherwise, you can install the xpdf (then run xpdf to execute) and/or ggv (then run ggv to execute) packages. On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 16:05, John Rigby wrote: Hi Sridhar, In its default state, my M8 won't recognise PDF format. Guess I'll have to install it - so many people use the silly thing today... :-) But I would have thought it would have been a default. On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 21:21, you manipulated electrons to produce: IBM have just released a great FAQ titled Transitioning from Windows to Linux. I had a look at it and it appears quite Newbie-friendly: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-faq/?openl=2 52,t=grl,p=LinuxFAQ -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
Re: [newbie] ATTENTION all newbies!
Hi Sridhar, On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 18:55, you manipulated electrons to produce: It _is_ a default. If you use Konqueror, you should be able to open a PDF file inside it.. Otherwise, you can install the xpdf (then run xpdf to execute) and/or ggv (then run ggv to execute) packages. -- I can *see* it in K, but there is no save option to it - even rc or in the Browser. Cheers, John http://counter.li.org GO HERE IF YOU SUPPORT LINUX! Fablor is now Webhosting?? What on earth for?? Info here: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (it's only an Autoresponder) :-)
Re: [newbie] ATTENTION all newbies!
Just like in any other browser (Windos browsers included), you can right-click the link and select Save link as... (the actual name can differ between browsers). On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 20:56, John Rigby wrote: Hi Sridhar, On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 18:55, you manipulated electrons to produce: It _is_ a default. If you use Konqueror, you should be able to open a PDF file inside it.. Otherwise, you can install the xpdf (then run xpdf to execute) and/or ggv (then run ggv to execute) packages. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
Re: [newbie] ATTENTION all newbies!
John, You will need the following: acroread 4.0.5-6mdk and acroread-nppdf 4.0.5-6mdk (for Netscape plugin) Roman Registered Linux User #179293 su is not the root of your problem but the start of a new journey John Rigby wrote: Hi Sridhar, In its default state, my M8 won't recognise PDF format. Guess I'll have to install it - so many people use the silly thing today... :-) But I would have thought it would have been a default. On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 21:21, you manipulated electrons to produce: IBM have just released a great FAQ titled Transitioning from Windows to Linux. I had a look at it and it appears quite Newbie-friendly: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-faq/?openl=2 52,t=grl,p=LinuxFAQ -- Cheers, John http://counter.li.org GO HERE IF YOU SUPPORT LINUX! Fablor is now Webhosting?? What on earth for?? Info here: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (it's only an Autoresponder) :-)
Re: [newbie] ATTENTION all newbies!
Sridhar: Thank you very much for this link. I've forwarded it to several people who are in the thinking about Linux stage. The writer has done an excellent job of balancing all of the FUD about how hard it is to install Linux (it really isn't) with the message that Linux ain't exactly load-it-and-run-it (not to say that Windows actually falls in that category). About the only shortcoming that I could see was that he failed to mention that the installation includes a wealth of applications far beyond anything that you'll get from Microsoft. Thanks also for getting me to the IBM site. I'd never been there before, and I was very impressed with the amount and quality of information that is available. Regards, Carroll Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: IBM have just released a great FAQ titled Transitioning from Windows to Linux. I had a look at it and it appears quite Newbie-friendly: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-faq/?openl=252,t=grl,p=LinuxFAQ -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
