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Linux Office Application HintsOffice suits in LinuxHow to write a pdf file in LINUX OO program fonts Answering machine OpenOffice.org Quickstarter Backup system Some Equivalent Linux Applications Enabling spell checking in OO.o Print manager Office suits in Linux Open Office.org koffice Further one can use for word processing abiword and for spreadsheet gnumeric also. Top How to write a pdf file in LINUX Openoffice print to file -> pdf gives the ps file and then i convert it to pdf with ps2pdf htmldoc can convert html pages to pdf Also one can configure PDF as a destination (use spadmin and configure it in the printer section), and print directly to a PDF file instead of ps, in effect, eliminating the ps2pdf step that you've mentioned above. Top OO program fonts Use spadmin to add/delete fonts. Use Options to choose the default fonts for text documents, and font substitution if required. BTW, font handling is much better in the latest verison - it will detect resident fonts automatically. See also http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/fontguide.html#9 Top Answering machine Vgetty turns your voice modem into an answering machine. It adds voice capabilities to mgetty. This means, that you can handle data, fax and voice calls on one telephone line. How good all this works depends strongly on the modem you have. There are many modems with bad voice implementations and quite a few more expensive ones with a good hardware and firmware. Look at http://alpha.greenie.net/vgetty/ Top OpenOffice.org Quickstarter for kde, look at http://segfaultskde.berlios.de/index.php?content=oooqs for gnome, look at http://ooqstart.sourceforge.net/ Top Backup system Amanda, the Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver, is a backup system that allows the administrator of a LAN to set up a single master backup server to back up multiple hosts to a single large capacity tape drive. Amanda uses native dump and/or GNU tar facilities and can back up a large number of workstations running multiple versions of Unix. Recent versions can also use SAMBA to back up Microsoft Windows hosts. http://www.amanda.org/ Mondo backs up your GNU/Linux server or workstation to tape, CD-R, CD-RW, NFS or hard disk partition. In the event of catastrophic data loss, you will be able to restore all of your data [or as much as you want], from bare metal if necessary. http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/about/about.html drakbackup It is in the drakxtools RPM. Performs incremental backup to ftp, ssh, CD, tape or NFS Top Some Equivalent Linux Applications Pagemaker can be replaced by Lyx, which is a GUI frontend for TeX (this is a little bit more powerful than pagemaker). Photoshop can partially be replaced by GIMP (but not fully, since some stuff in photoshop is patented). See the site http://linuxshop.ru/linuxbegin/win-lin-soft-en/ Top Enabling spell checking in OO.o with MySpell dictionary and hyphenation dictionary installed (en_US/en_UK as you please), in OO.o writer, open: Tools > Options > Language Settings >Writing Aids and then check the first box in the top section (turning on MySpell spell checker). One can use edit to select language. In other sections of that window, you can set the options, including automatic spell checking (incorrectly spelled words will be underlined in red). Top Print manager You can add an "special button" in the systray (i'm using KDE as my current desktop) called "printing system" or so (sorry, i've got the spanish KDE localized version and i don't know exactly how it's called in english). By clicking in one of the little up-arrows in the KDE "task menu", select pannel menu > add > special button > printing system. A menu-button (button that expands a menu) with a printer in it will be placed in the kde bar, and you can easily administrate your printer jobs clicking in the menu entry with your printer name --and even configure it through "preferences" or "printing administration". You can also start the printer jobs administrator by typing kjobviewer in the console. You can access, as derek says, to a web browser interface using the URI he posted. But using Konqueror -and only Konqueror- just type print:/ to access to different printer related services, or print:/jobs to see your printer jobs status, although you're using LDP instead of CUPS. Top |