GIFS and DATA BASES and [Fwd: [REDHAT] Re: OT-picture from text file]

2002-01-10 Thread Ted Hilts
David Thank you. I tried your suggestion as you recommended per the attached. It works fine. The only problem I will have to work around that I might not have with some of the other suggestions is that I will be converting MS Office Word tables to pictures and some if not most are too large,

Re: GIFS and DATA BASES and [Fwd: [REDHAT] Re: OT-picture from text file]

2002-01-10 Thread Brian Ashe
Ted, Anyway, I have a follow up question, which applies to both Linux and databases. I currently work with MySQL and Postgres with PostgreSQL being my favorite. The project I am working on involves language dictionary creation and as high as 100,000 web pages many of which can incorporate

Re: [REDHAT] Re: OT-picture from text file

2001-12-29 Thread Ted Hilts
David I will give this a try - sounds good - I'm running Win95B and will let you know how it works. I dislike MS Windooze (and NT) with a passion but there are applications I must make use of for the web site I have in the USA and these applications are not available on Linux. So I do

Re: OT-picture from text file

2001-12-29 Thread Ted Hilts
Chad and Doria Skinner wrote: Covert the Word documents to PDF. You can either buy the tools from Adobe, or, if you have a Linux box available on the same network, you can setup a workaround. Setup a printer on the Windows box that uses the one of the HP Laserjet PS drivers.

RE: OT-picture from text file

2001-12-20 Thread Moke Tsing Moh Lim
Hi, Usually, I'll do a print for the documents to be converted to PDF. Thanks and regards Moke Tsing -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ted Hilts Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 10:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: OT-picture from

Re: OT-picture from text file

2001-12-19 Thread Ted Hilts
Dave I need more detail. Also, will not I have to invest over $200.00 US, which comes to over $300.00 Canadian dollars just to have a package that will generate PDF files? Will a PDF formatter accept mixed language fonts and maintain their appearance? Would I just cut from the MS document and

Re: OT-picture from text file

2001-12-19 Thread Bret Hughes
Anthony E. Greene wrote: Ted Hilts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This may sound dumb but there is a good reason for asking and so far I cannot find an answer. I need to convert MS word documents to pictures. [snip] Covert the Word documents to PDF. You can either buy the tools from

Re: [REDHAT] Re: OT-picture from text file

2001-12-19 Thread David Kramer
On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, Anthony E. Greene wrote: Ted Hilts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This may sound dumb but there is a good reason for asking and so far I cannot find an answer. I need to convert MS word documents to pictures. [snip] Covert the Word documents to PDF. You can either buy

Re: OT-picture from text file

2001-12-19 Thread Dave Ihnat
On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 09:02:21AM -0700, Ted Hilts wrote: I need more detail. Ok. You can create a self-contained PDF file that encapsulates your document. There are a number of converters that come installed with Linux, and others can be downloaded. Anthony Greene wrote details of one

RE: OT-picture from text file

2001-12-19 Thread Chad and Doria Skinner
Covert the Word documents to PDF. You can either buy the tools from Adobe, or, if you have a Linux box available on the same network, you can setup a workaround. Setup a printer on the Windows box that uses the one of the HP Laserjet PS drivers. Configure the print settings to Print to

OT-picture from text file

2001-12-18 Thread Ted Hilts
This may sound dumb but there is a good reason for asking and so far I cannot find an answer. I need to convert MS word documents to pictures. They contain fonts of other languages. The picture gets around the fact that those receiving the information do not have to install the appropriate

Re: OT-picture from text file

2001-12-18 Thread Dave Ihnat
On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 07:51:59PM -0700, Ted Hilts wrote: This may sound dumb but there is a good reason for asking and so far I cannot find an answer. I need to convert MS word documents to pictures. ... PDF files. -- Dave Ihnat [EMAIL PROTECTED]