Re: reliable editting of any PDF file

However I see from http://www.bxlug.be/en/articles/128 that I can use "debian-marillat" sources - does anybody use acroread from there for *editting* PDFs? Yes, I do. As I said in my previous posting, PDF file needs to be enabled first for annotation. In our lab we have a copy of the Windows

Re: reliable editting of any PDF file

On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Micha wrote: Doesn't Acrobat (adobe) let one add notes to a PDF? That feature sounds familiar. Acrobat yes (although I found it hard to work with). Acrobat reader AFAIK, no. You can annotate PDF files in free *Acrobat Reader* (I am using Debian package, version 8.1.2

Re: concatenating pdf files

On Fri, 21 Dec 2007, ISHWAR RATTAN wrote: I have scanned related pages of a document as jpeg (limitation of software), converted to pdf using imagemagick::convert. Now is there a way to concatenate the pdf files (or jpeg files and then conver to pdf) to collect the complete document. Probab

Re: Changing screens

On Sun, 20 May 2007, Mumia W.. wrote: On 05/20/2007 01:38 PM, Matthias Brennwald wrote: [...] Another option would be to have both "1440x1024" and "1280x1024" in the modes list and to use Control-Alt-Plus to switch between the modes. You can also use the ServerLayout

Midnight Commander in Gnome Terminal

Hi, When using MC in a text mode (console) the Ctrl-J copies the highlighted filename into a command line. However, this doesn't work in Gnome Terminal, it seems that the keys combination is captured and interpreted as a new line. Is it possible to disable such behaviour? I couldn't find any

Re: Environment Variables for sudo

Tim, Please have a look at the thread "sudo doesn't set HOME" in this list. Thanks, Tad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sudo doesn't set HOME

On Sun, 5 Mar 2006, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > On Sarge since sudo 1.6.8p7-1.3 it is. Hugo, I am sorry, but I am not sure what do you mean. Does sudo 1.6.8p7-1.3 set the HOME variable on your system, or it doesn't and this is intentional? If the later is the case what is the reason for this? Did

sudo doesn't set HOME

Hi, I was just trying to use pbuilder on a sarge system and during creation of the baze.tgz (sudo pbuilder create) it complained about missing .pbuilderrc file, despite the fact that I have one in my home directory. After some investigation I found that sudo doesn't set the HOME variable. Is this

Re: Shrinking of NTFS partition??

On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Justin Guerin wrote: > On Wednesday 08 September 2004 15:28, Ishwar Rattan wrote: > > System is Debian based Knoppix-3.6 running kernel-2.6.7 > > > > Is there a utility to reduce the size or shrink an NTFS > > partition. It is a 30Gb disk with about 8Gb of data (at [...] > >

Re: nfs-kernel-server and firewalls

On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Tom Allison wrote: > I guess what I should be asking is where/how do I bind specific ports? > > I can't find anything in the man pages (at least the ones I'm looking > at) to set this up. I am running the kernel based server so I may have What I had in mind was to add the o

Re: nfs-kernel-server and firewalls

On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, Tom Allison wrote: > Portmapper sits on one port, but it's redirecting the nfs connection all > over the place. I can't seem to nail it down to one set of ports. The rpc services called by portmaper can be binded to specific ports, see man pages for details. To find out wha

Jigdo files for 3.0r1

Hi, Can somebody explain this to me please? Woody 3.0r1 has been officially released but jigdo files on us.cdimage.debian.org were last modified in July 2002. So I am confused: are these files for version 3.0r0 or 3.0r1? Thanks for your help. -- Tad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Xircom CreditCard Ethernet CE3B-100

Hi, Does anybody know, is the above PCMCIA card supported by Debian Woody kernel? I have found on the net that a special patch is required to make it working. Thanks in advance for any help. -- Tad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: AutoCAD (or similar) for Debian/Linux?

On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Juari Ritter [iso-8859-1] Müller wrote: [...] > success running AutoCAD (through wine?) or any CAD > system capable of opening AutoCAD files. You may want to check QCad: http://www.qcad.org There is also a Debian package. Greetings, Tad

Quota command not working - solved

Hi, My previously reported problems with quota have gone after rebooting. Before I only unmounted/mounted the /home partition and restarted quota script from /etc/init.d. It seems it was not enough... -- Tad

Re: Quota command not working

On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Jordi S . Bunster wrote: > Just to be sure the actual user has user quotas? edquota -u user? Yes. I can see all quotas set properly if I use (as root) the command 'repquota -a': Block limits File limits Userusedsof

Quota command not working

Hi all, System: Debian 2.2r3, kernel 2.2.19. Quota support is basically working because users can't exceed the hard limit. Also the command 'repquota' displays correct settings for all users. However the command 'quota' issued by user or 'quota -u user' issued by root always results in: Disk quo

unlink or kernel error?

Hi all, Sorry, my problem is probably not Debian specific... I tried to run under slink with the 2.0.36 kernel the following program: #define RUN "/tmp/.rem.run" #include #include #include #include #include main() { open(RUN, O_RDWR|O_CREAT, S_IRUSR|S_IWUSR); printf("File created\n");

Re: MSMail client & scientific plotting/fitting program

On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote: [...] > Microcal Origin? I'd need a program that can create scientific > graphics/plots (no need for 3D plots), do both linear and nonlinear > function fitting (preferrably it should allow the user to enter his own [...] Try Grace: http://plasma-

Re: light spreadsheet for stable?

On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Richard E. Hawkins wrote: > > I need to find as light as possible a spreadsheet that still works > reasonably will for stable. I'll recall Thumper's daddy's advice, and You can try XessLite (http://www.ais.com). Works very well under slink. But it's shareware, not free!

Re: How to install fortify?

On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Brad wrote: > Install them both at the same time. dselect or apt-get should handle this > with no problem. With dpkg, > dpkg --install fortify_1.3.0-2.deb fortify-linux-x86_1.3.0-2.deb > should work... Yes, it works. Thank you very much! -- Tad

How to install fortify?

-- This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. -- Hi, I've just tried to install fortify under Debian 2.1. But fortify 1.3.0-2 and fortify-linux-x86 1.3.0-2 depend on each other, so I can't configure them. How to solve this dilemma? Thanks! -- Tad

Re: Still can't build kernel_image on slink

On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, Stephen Pitts wrote: > Try "make-kpkg clean". It should clear out some old cruft in the > configuration files. Thank you very much, that fixed my problem. Why didn't I think about it? Silly me... Thanks again! :-) -- Tad

Still can't build kernel_image on slink

Hi all, After upgrading from hamm to slink I tried to compile a new kernel. Unfortunately the command 'make-kpkg kernel_image' stopped with the following error: [...] cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage debian/tmp-image/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36 chmod 644 debian/tmp-image/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36 test -f System.map

Slink - kernel compiling problem (2.0.36)

Hi, I've just tried to compile a new kernel in my Debian slink (upgraded from hamm). The command 'make-kpkg kernel_image' finished with the following message: dpkg-gencontrol -pkernel-image-2.0.36 -Pdebian/tmp-image/ dpkg-gencontrol: error: package kernel-image-2.0.36 not in control info make: **

Re: xdvi problem after upgrade

On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, William Park wrote: > Try removing all the old .pk files, and run 'xdvi' again. Thanks for your suggestion. I deleted them, after running xdvi new fonts were generated but unfortunately that didn't fix the problem. Still the text is almost unreadable. > I never had any pro

xdvi problem after upgrade

Hi all, After upgrading the system from Debian2.0 to Debian2.1 (slink) something strange happend to the fonts in xdvi. The letters are colored a bit and look like doubled. Can someone please give me an advice what files should I check? I use the standard Debian tetex. Thanks! -- Tad

XBanner on remote display - solved!

Finally I found it. This is the file /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup: #!/bin/sh # # /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup # # This script is run whenever xdm is asked to manage a display other than :0 exit 0 <-- !!! # XBanner - begin /usr/X11R6/bin/freetemp /usr/X11R6/bin/xbanner -file /etc/X11/XBanner.ad # XBanner

Re: Star Office 5.1 with Slink?

On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Matthew Dalton wrote: > Yes, but potato uses glibc2.1, which is what Star Office 5.1 is meant to > run with. I want to know whether Star Office 5.1 is backward compatible > with glibc2.0 (ie Slink, RH5.2 etc...). I have StarOffice 5.1 installed in Debian 2.1 (slink). I don't

Re: XBanner on remote display?

On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Brendon Baumgartner wrote: > How did you get his windows computer to connect to xdm? I was always > wondering how to do this... Xappeal is a DOS, not Windows program. You can get it from any SimTel mirror, directory: msdos/xwindow. Installation is easy (assuming that the net

XBanner on remote display?

Hi all, I have just set up xappeal (the DOS program that change PC into X-terminal) on friend's computer and he can now log-in into my Debian 2.1 box in graphical mode. There is only one problem -- on my console xdm login screen looks nice thanks to XBanner, while his screen is just plain (like xd

Re: User menu problem

On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, G. Crimp wrote: > If you ran update-menus as root user, it won't look in ~/.menu for I ran it as a normal user. > update-menus" or somewhere under /usr/doc/menu. Why not put the entry in > /etc/menu and run as root ? Because StarOffice is personalized for each user,

Re: User menu problem

On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > You also have to restart the window manager. I did. I even logout and then login the user. And still no luck :-(. -- Tad

User menu problem

Hi all, I have just installed StarOffice 5.1 in my Debian 2.1 system. I tried to put an entry into the menu system (I use fvwm2 as a window manager). So I created a file .menu/soffice in my home directory with the contents: ?package(local.soffice):needs=x11 section=Apps/Editors title=StarOffice

Re: pppconfig-1.9beta2.0 uploaded, please test

On 2 Jul 1999, John Hasler wrote: > features, including modem detection, support for seperate nameservers for > each provider, and support for dynamic dns. I would particularly like to Could you explain me please how can I configure separate nameservers for different providers? I'm running Deb

Mattrox Millenium card

Hi, Sorry, its not Debian specific but I am a Debian user :-). I have found that Matrox Millenium G200 is supported by latest XFree86 but I am not sure what version -- AGP or PCI? Or maybe both? Any experience? Thanks! -- Tad

StarOffice and S3V - solved!

Hi, Like several other persons I experienced a problem of crashing XWindows while trying to run StarOffice (yes, I have S3ViRGE card). By using the SVGA server I could solve the problem but unfortunately Netscape icons looks funny at 24bpp. Recently I noticed that VMWare has a couple of optimized

Re: fetchmail crashes

On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, Mark Phillips wrote: > > Fetchmail has been crashing on me recently. The error is: > > > fetchmail: reading message 11 of 120 (2244 bytes) . (log message incomplete) > fetchmail: SMTP error: 501 <@adam.ist.flinders.edu.au> : colon expected after > route > fetchmail: SMTP

WP8 experience

I have downloaded WP8 (from ftp.download.com, file /pub/win95/business/GUILG/GUILG00.GZ) and installed it in my Debian (hamm) system under /usr/local. The whole process was very easy: gunzip, untar and run 'Runme'. However I am a bit disappointed. When I tried to read a RTF file I got some corrupt

How to install tcl8.0.4 ?

Hi all, I have Debian 2.0 (hamm) system running and I wanted to install the new tcl8.0.4 package from frozen. It turned out that it depends on libc6 (>=2.0.7u-6) -- my libc6 is older. There is libc6 2.0.7u-7 in frozen but it conflicts with libstdc++2.8 (<<2.90.29-2). And I can't upgrade to the ne

Re: Linux <--> SunOS connection terminal problem

On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Janos A Csirik wrote: [...] > Is there an incantation involving termcap or terminfo that will make > these SunOS computers be able to use my linux terminal? I have had the same problem. To solve it I created ~/.terminfo/l directory on Sun and copied there the /etc/terminfo

Bug in libc5.4.13

That simple program compiled under Debian-1.2 (libc5.4.13) produces wrong results. #include main() { double a; printf("input: "); scanf("%lf", &a); printf("value = %f\n", a); } $ ./test01 input: 2e-3 value = 0.002000 $ ./test01 input: 2E-3 value = 2.00 The bug is fixed in libc5

Can't install Debian-1.2

Hi all, Hardware: Pentium PCI 100MHz, 24MB RAM, S3 Trio-64/2MB, HDD IDE Maxtor 7850, ATAPI CDROM Goldstar R540C, 1831 sound card (main audio chip ESS1688), Ethernet card SMC Ultra Boot from RESQ (Dec 8) disc: [...] GCCD: Goldstar Interface Adapter does not exist or H/W error $ld: cm206.c, v 0.99

Re: Problem: building kernel-image

> >> dpkg-gencontrol: failure: chown new files list file: Illegal seek > >> make: *** [stamp-image] Error 29 > > You probably issue "make-kpkg" under "script". Yes, you are right. > If so, you may build kernel whithout scripting. It solved the problem. Thank you very much! -- Tad -- TO

Problem: building kernel-image

Hi, After upgrading to Debian-1.2 (it went very smooth, thanks) i tried to build a new kernel. I installed the kernel-source-2.0.27.deb from devel directory and then I did: make menuconfig make-kpkg kernel_image There was no problem with compilation, but at the end I got: cp arch/i386/bo