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Star Office on SCO

From: "Brian K. White" <brian@aljex.com>
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Subject: Re: sco-list: Printing Word doc
Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2001 02:07:31 GMT


"Bill Marcum" <bmarcum@iglou.com> wrote in message
news:3c0eb507_1@news.iglou.com...
>
> rp wrote in message <8rqP7.406$Bf.16772@ord-read.news.verio.net>...
> >More clarification: I want to be able to send a *.doc file sitting on a
> Unix
> >system to the printer via unix lpr command or by cat > device (printer).
> >This doc file is a Windows Word document with all the formatting.
> >
> >
> Have you considered using Star Office?

Pablo, ignore all mention of star office. it's not available for Open Server
5 and I don't know why so many people keep suggesting it other than that
they feel they have to say something even though they have no idea what.

It is just barely possible, by dint of lots of effort, to get an old version
of star office to run on open server, by using a skunkware package called
"lxrun" but it is far from trivial to get it all up and working.
I've done it, so I know. It is no longer possible to get the old versions of
star office, and even if you found a CD or a tar in a backup somewhere, it
is impossible to activate it after install because the registration web site
is no longer there as the company that made it is no longer there. Sun, who
owns it now, is not giving out registration keys for the old versions.

enough destrucive criticism, now for construction,

What exactly would you like to do? you didn't describe your desired printing
scenario enough to really offer an answer.

If you want unix to be able to print word documents all by itself, then I
don't know what converters might be out there to do that. I beleive there is
at least one or two commercial utilities out there that can run on unix,
take a word doc, and render it as postscript pr pcl or maybe html. any of
which can be printed by various more common unix printing and imaging
utilities.
In this scenario, I mean unix must be able to print the doc all by itself,
such as from a cron job or in the background as part of some application.

If you mean that there is one or more directories on the unix box which are
shared and visible to the windows PC's via samba or AFPS or visionfs or
facetwin etc... and the windows machines create and store their word docs
there, and you want the windows users to be able to print these documents
out on a printer that happens to be connected to the unix box (even if it's
via LPD/LPR (network & printserver)) then that is very easy by using samba,
(or afps, or visionfs, or facetwin) to "share" that unix printer. then in
windows you "install" the printer by browsing to the unix box and selecting
"install" or "connect" on the new printer. In this scenario, the document
and the printer both happen to be on the unix box but really windows is
doing the printing.

If you want the first scenario, perhaps you can install something like
PrintWizard (www.anzio.com) or that lpr program someone else mentioned on a
windows PC, and from unix, you send the documents to the PC which can print
them. in this case, the printer can be connected to the PC, or the unix box,
or on a network printserver. Because I don't think tyou are going to find
any unix program that can print or convert word docs. There are a couple gnu
projects out there that try to do this, but the last time I tried them
(admittedly over a year ago) they weren't useful yet except for extracting
text and some (not all) images.


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