Re: [SLUG] WORD (.doc) to PDF under Linux

Matt Hyne wrote: Does anyone know of a reliable way to convert a directory containing MS Word files to PDF files under Linux. There appears to be plenty of Windows tools but I cannot find many for Linux. I do it by opening the file in OpenOffice, print to a postscript file and use ps2pdf. I want

Re: [SLUG] Docbook with XML examples

Thanks Carl. Unfortunately that doesn´t do it so I did a global substitute of the XML example changing to lt; and to gt; I marked the block as programlisting role=¨xml¨ which worked a treat in the html render. Stu Carl G Lewis wrote: On Thursday 05 June 2003 10:04, Stuart Guthrie

Re: [SLUG] WORD (.doc) to PDF under Linux

quote who=Matt Hyne Does anyone know of a reliable way to convert a directory containing MS Word files to PDF files under Linux. There appears to be plenty of Windows tools but I cannot find many for Linux. You might care to try 'wvPDF' from the wv package (http://wvware.sourceforge.net) It

RE: [SLUG] WORD (.doc) to PDF under Linux

I've played around with wvPS (and then ps2pdf) but wvPS pretty much destroys the formatting of most of the word files. Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quote who=Matt Hyne Does anyone know of a reliable way to convert a directory containing MS Word files to PDF files under Linux. There

Re: [SLUG] WORD (.doc) to PDF under Linux

Windows tools but I cannot find many for Linux. I do it by opening the file in OpenOffice, print to a postscript file and use ps2pdf. grab OO1.1beta2 it does wonderful PDF export... :-), tis stable enough for use also... you could then write a macro I'd say to do it from inside OO... not the

[SLUG] Home for Sun hardware wanted

Hi all, Have you ever wanted to play with linux on non-x86 platforms? Ever wanted an XTerm in your kitchen, your loungeroom, your bathroom ... Look no further! :) For the insignificant price of a case of coopers sparkling[1] you will get: 2 x working sun sparcstation classics[2] Each

RE: [SLUG] WORD (.doc) to PDF under Linux

Is antiword any better? I use it to look at the plain text, but haven't used its postscript generation. On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Matt Hyne wrote: Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 18:16:19 +1000 From: Matt Hyne [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Jan Schmidt' [EMAIL PROTECTED], 'slug' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE:

Re: [SLUG] Linux on a Pavilion, HP's recovery thingy

Chaps, Thanks so much for the useful tips. Yesterday I was feeling optimistic and I tried exactly what I described in my email (that's right, no previous backup apart from used data). What the HP recovery software did is erase my brand new small NTFS partition, then create its own big one. At

Re: [SLUG] data recovery

quote who=Steven O'Reilly The questions I have are is this totaly fatal? and are there any open source tools that I could use to attempt to recover data? If this were me, I would be taking the drive out and connecting it up to a PC with a big disk and then trying to mount the disk there.

Re: [SLUG] WORD (.doc) to PDF under Linux

On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 18:07, Jan Schmidt wrote: quote who=Matt Hyne Does anyone know of a reliable way to convert a directory containing MS Word files to PDF files under Linux. There appears to be plenty of Windows tools but I cannot find many for Linux. I have to do this with

Re: [SLUG] How to Use wget to download all files ?

On Sat, 2003-05-24 at 13:11, Gonzalo Servat wrote: On 24/05/2003 12:22 PM +1000 Louis Selvon wrote: I am transferring a domain from a shared host to my own live server. The easier way I figured is to use wget as root to download all files from another domain in each directory to the

Re: [SLUG] data recovery

quote who=Steven O'Reilly The questions I have are is this totaly fatal? and are there any open source tools that I could use to attempt to recover data? If this were me, I would be taking the drive out and connecting it up to a PC with a big disk and then trying to mount the disk there.

Re: [SLUG] Linux on a Pavilion, HP's recovery thingy

On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 19:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Kevin, http://www.partimage.org/ This will be familiar to you. I'm trying to switch my HP Pavilion from Win XP only to XP + Linux. Much like you, I would like to have HP's recovery XP since I don't want to re-install 1000 drivers that

[SLUG] samba NTFS ACLs

Hi.. I'm having trouble getting to grips with NTFS ACLs in samba (2.2.3a-12.3 for Debian) I've set up a samba server with the usual homes and share drives c. Windows 98 clients are no problem. But the win 2k boxes are a different kettle of things. I was puzzled as to why one user would get

[SLUG] XSLT Question

Does anyone know how to strip \n characters using XSL ie stylesheets? I´m trying to get some newline characters out of some iCalendar data to represent the data in PDF format. Cheers big ears Stu -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

Re: [SLUG] Linux on a Pavilion, HP's recovery thingy

I've heard of tools which can create a install cd from a vendors recovery partition. Sorry, no links -- look in the usual places :-) Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] Docbook with XML examples

Does anyone know how to embed an example of XML in a DocBook formatted XML document. CDATA? Stu -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] Apache config (access control problem)

Hi, I'm trying to configure apache so that local addresses just work, and any other addresses need name+password. I have this working from IPv4 hosts. When I access the server from an IPv6 host, the IP address matching seems to fail, and I see error 403. Here's a snippet from the

[SLUG] wine, using windows from another system.

I have two systems - one Linux (RedHat 7.3) and one using Windows 2000. Is it possible to configure Wine to use the windows installation on the other system to provide libraries and programs on the Linux box? I've mounted the C: from the Windows system on the Linux box using Samba, but trying to

Re: [SLUG] Mounting a second CD device.

At 4:38 pm, Wednesday, June 4 2003, Bill Bennett mumbled: I'm not sure about how to mount this burner. The reader mounts automatically when I put in a disk. But I don't know whether the system will wear a second CD device. Has anybody any experience with this situation? Yes. As long as

Re: [SLUG] wine, using windows from another system.

On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 10:40, Douglas Stalker wrote: I have two systems - one Linux (RedHat 7.3) and one using Windows 2000. Is it possible to configure Wine to use the windows installation on the other system to provide libraries and programs on the Linux box? I've mounted the C: from the

Re: [SLUG] Docbook with XML examples

On Thursday 05 June 2003 10:04, Stuart Guthrie wrote: Does anyone know how to embed an example of XML in a DocBook formatted XML document. CDATA? This may be what you are looking for: http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html/markup.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/

[SLUG] ANNOUNCE: Linux.Conf.Au 2004

THEYYY'RRREEE BAAACCK! - Forwarded message from Michael Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 09:28:46 +0900 From: Michael Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Linux-aus] ANNOUNCE: Linux.Conf.Au 2004 Linux Australia proudly announces that preparation for Australia's

[SLUG] listing imap folders

For those of you who were recently looking for some way to look at imap folders filtered on the server side: http://www.steve.org.uk/Software/imapls/ I just noticed it on the 3rd Jun freshmeat list. Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

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[SLUG] HTTP Error

Hi All, In my local intranet, i run an apache webserver on RH9. The server responds to queries rather slow. When i looked for any warning/errors in log files, I found the following in ssl_error_logs, though I don't run any ssl services. Any suggestions please? [Wed Jun 04 12:20:12 2003] [warn]

[SLUG] RE: IMAP and procmail (Regular Expression Question)

* ^((List-Id|X-(Mailing-)?List):(.*[]\/[^]*)) My understanding of this regular expression. Indulge me: Message must begin with either List-Id or X-(Mailing-)List where the Mailing- part is optional. It must then be followed by a colon then anything up to a / then anything up to another So

Re: [SLUG] RE: IMAP and procmail (Regular Expression Question)

On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Joel Heenan wrote: Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 16:13:59 +1000 From: Joel Heenan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SLUG] RE: IMAP and procmail (Regular Expression Question) * ^((List-Id|X-(Mailing-)?List):(.*[]\/[^]*)) My

[SLUG] WORD (.doc) to PDF under Linux

Folks, Does anyone know of a reliable way to convert a directory containing MS Word files to PDF files under Linux. There appears to be plenty of Windows tools but I cannot find many for Linux. I want to write a script that will run a WORD-PDF conversion nightly so PDF files can be available

[SLUG] test please ignore

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