On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Murdock, Matt wrote: >You need to have adobe writer....the simpliest way. Does Star Office have >that capability?
Is it (or any other freeware) able to read/write PageMaker files? (To a level at least that of what OpenOffice can do with Office files.) That'd allow an all-freeware option, the one place it's feasible for me to suggest it. AFAIK, right now the answer is no... D. >-----Original Message----- >From: Burke, Thomas G. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 1:15 PM >To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' >Subject: RE: u.s. government recognizes Linux as > > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >Hmmm.. How do you convert a doc to pdf? > >- -----Original Message----- >From: Anthony E. Greene [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 3:05 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: u.s. government recognizes Linux as > > >Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>As an experiment, I am trying to setup a Linux computer as an office >>computer running ALL FREE software. It doesn't mean I won't pay for >>some software in the office, but I want to see if I can setup at >>least one computer in the network in which there is NO software cost >>and make it powerful and usable for the business. I have a home >>business right now and I am learning Linux and it's software. First >>I want to create a server then I'll work on the desktop idea. > >It depends on what you want to do. > >I used a Linux desktop at work for several years. My work included a >lot of >text editing, email, and web work. I had to read lots of documents, >and >produce memorandums. I had no problem doing this with various >editors, >mailers and browsers, OpenOffice, AbiWord, and Gnumeric. The >showstopper was >the occasional Windows-only custom app. > >That said, if you already own Windows licenses, then there may not be >a need >to switch, especially on the desktop. I've done enough with Linux >servers >that I'd like to have one on my network just because of the abilities >you >get for free; SQL database, development languages and programming >tools, >LDAP, mail, web, and more. Many offices could stand to have an >end-user >maintained shared contact database, or a way to convert any document >to PDF, >or a customizable spam filter/backup MX, or any of a host of services >that >can be setup on Linux without expending any funds. > >Go for it, and don't forget that Google and the Linux Documentation >Project >are your friends. > > --Tony -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
