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Printing a book
by Ian Douglas 05 Dec '04

05 Dec '04

Hi Folks, I have been asked by a friend to print a book of his for Christmas. The book will have 40 A5 size pages. I have created a text file from his had-written manuscript and now want to print about 5 copies to pass to friends for proof reading and suggestions. My problem is that I would like to find a Linux Desk Top Publishing (or Word Processing) program into which I can import the text file and print it out on landscape orientation A4 sheets with the first sheet automatically having A5 page 40 on it's left half and A5 page 1 on it's right half, the second sheet having page 2 on it's left half and page 39 on it's right, the third sheet having page 38 on it's left and page 3 on it's right etc (those of you who have printed booklets will hopefully know the problem I am trying to explain)... Have any ALUG members had any experience of printing books like this, and if so what DTP package did you use? Ian.

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Linux: Watching satellite TV when from home via DSL on the laptop (fwd)
by MJ Ray 04 Dec '04

04 Dec '04

I know a couple of ALUGgers have DVB cards now, so I'm forwarding the following from alt.tv.satellite.europe - I assume this will work for cable connections and both satellite and DTT. I'd love to hear of success stories and maybe a demo if we're ever somewhere with fast enough internet access. Might have potential for home distribution too, if you're not in the room with your MythTV system. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: 2004-12-03 19:01:16 +0000 From: Jan Panteltje <pNaonStpealmtje(a)yahoo.com> Subject: Linux: Watching satellite TV when from home via DSL on the laptop If you have a DVB card, a fast DSL connection, and run Linux, then it is possible to watch on a remote PC. For example you are far away for your work, and want to watch some TV station live (maybe game or anything). This is possible, with reasonable quality, I have put some scripts and an explanation on my site http://panteltje.com/panteltje/dvd/ just below the penguin picture. Basically the system (in real time) converts mpeg2 to mpeg4, reduces bitrate, and sends the compressed stream as TCP packets to where ever you are. It is a one to one secure link, with full control from you. Experiment, this was just the result of a few hours tinkering. JP -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only and not of any group I know Creative copyleft computing - http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ Unsolicited attachments to the pipex address deleted Will HLF fund tree-killings? http://www.thewalks.co.uk/

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RAM search
by Ted.Harding＠nessie.mcc.ac.uk 04 Dec '04

04 Dec '04

Hi Folks and Junkhoarders, To upgrade an old m/board, I'm looking for: Three 128MB DIMMS 66MHz 3.3v RAM sticks either non-ECC (64-bit) or ECC (72-bit) but all the same. (M/bd is Intel AL440LX). If anyone has any going spare, I'd be happy to contribute a few quid, and collect. Thanks, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding(a)nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 [NB: New number!] Date: 04-Dec-04 Time: 17:27:01 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------

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RE: [ALUG] Ubuntu
by Keith Watson 04 Dec '04

04 Dec '04

I've installed it twice on my spare box, from the CDs I picked up on Sunday, using various combinations of other OSs and it's loaded perfectly and set up a working multi-boot configuration each time. I like the fact that it gives the option of using grub. A colleague tried to install it on his WinXP laptop and it loaded perfectly and ran ok but WinXP objected. But we now think that was a grub + hardware issue and nothing to do with ubuntu. Regards, Keith ____________ CLAIRVOYANT, n. - Persons who have the power of seeing that which is invisible to their patrons, namely, that they are fools. - Ambrose Bierce - The Devil's Dictionary > From: Elisabeth Sent: 02 December 2004 22:47 > > bjsamuels(a)beenthere-donethat.org.uk writ: > > > > Looking on usenet I see that some people have managed to install it. > > It's living happily on my pc. > > e

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Apologies
by John Seago 03 Dec '04

03 Dec '04

I do apologise for not making the subject specific to the question. -- John Seago Linux User #219566 (http://counter.li.org) AFFS http://www.affs.org.uk/

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Re: main digest, Vol 3 #373 - 13 msgs
by John Seago 03 Dec '04

03 Dec '04

On Friday 03 Dec 2004 18:06, main-request(a)lists.alug.org.uk wrote: > Have any ALUG members had any experience of printing books like this, > and if so what DTP package did you use? Disclaimer, I was a compositor/Graphic Designer in the days when we used to set lead type by hand, the printers were that long established we had five cases of swastika border, which for some reason didn't seem to be as popular as it was in 1920's when they bought it. As I understand it you want to print an 80 page (A5) book using 40 sheets of (A4) the formula for working out which sheets go together is each pair must add up to 1 more than the number of pages, 1-40 2-39 and so on and always an odd with an even alternating, middle pages will be 20-21. Also bear in mind that 1and 40 will need more space in the gutter, (the margin between the pages) = twice the margin at the outside edges plus an allowance for the fact that there will be 38 other sheets of paper between them, in my day that would have been about one > one and half leads. (Don't take this as gospel, I joined the Fire Service in 1974 and my memory is not what it was). I've still got my type scale some where if you need it, but, a lead was 3 points and a point was approximately one seventy-second of an inch, but not exactly one seventy-second. but I would have thought if you add half a mm to the gutter for every eight or so pages working out from the middle it will end up looking right. Of course Scribus or something similar may do that automatically for you. -- John Seago Linux User #219566 (http://counter.li.org) AFFS http://www.affs.org.uk/

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Ubuntu
by John Seago 03 Dec '04

03 Dec '04

For those unable to take up the offer of free Ubuntu CD's at next Sunday's, (28th) meeting, today I was given a two disk set at Ottakar's in Norwich, presumably they are available at all branches. From the Computer books dept. one to a customer. -- John Seago Linux User #219566 (http://counter.li.org) AFFS (http://www.affs.org.uk/)

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RE: [ALUG] Printing a book
by Keith Watson 03 Dec '04

03 Dec '04

> From: Ian Douglas Sent: 03 December 2004 14:25 > > I have been asked by a friend to print a book of his for Christmas. The > book will have 40 A5 size pages. I have created a text file from his > had-written manuscript and now want to print about 5 copies to pass to > friends for proof reading and suggestions. > > My problem is that I would like to find a Linux Desk Top Publishing (or Word > Processing) program into which I can import the text file and print it out > on landscape orientation A4 sheets with the first sheet automatically having > A5 page 40 on it's left half and A5 page 1 on it's right half, the second > sheet having page 2 on it's left half and page 39 on it's right, the third > sheet having page 38 on it's left and page 3 on it's right etc (those of you > who have printed booklets will hopefully know the problem I am trying to > explain)... > > Have any ALUG members had any experience of printing books like this, and if > so what DTP package did you use? > Ian, I haven't had to do this under Lunix but I would think the latest version of OpenOffice worth a look. Scribus <http://www.scribus.org.uk/> might be a better match for what you need. Again haven't used it myself but from what I've read it sounds the sort of thing you're after. Keith ____________ Each of us must journey through the dots, - beyond the dots, and to the truth, alone. - Russell Hoban

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RE: [ALUG] Ubuntu
by Elisabeth 03 Dec '04

03 Dec '04

bjsamuels(a)beenthere-donethat.org.uk writ: > > Looking on usenet I see that some people have managed to install it. It's living happily on my pc. e

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Photo organiser and DVD authoring program
by Graham 01 Dec '04

01 Dec '04

For the past 12 months or so I've been working on a skunkworks project to organise my photographs, both digital and scanned from paper. Although far from complete it's now fairly stable and I've recently added a module to author DVD videos, having sampled a few other authoring programs and not been very impressed. I would welcome feedback from anyone able and willing to give it a try. Here's a brief feature list: 1 Photo organiser with 3-level assignable categories (to be extended to multi-way, multi-level categories). 2 Create captioned HTML slideshows from any selection of images, with optimal image sizing for Web use. 3 Screen capture module creates slideshows directly. 4 DVD authoring module acts as a front end to spumux, dvdauthor, etc. 5 Full GUI interface with Linux and Windows compatibility. 6 Built-in help documentation. 7 Open Source license - source available on request. Development assistance would be most welcome. And here's the URL: http://www.eclecity.net/mediacity.html Please bear in mind that the software has only so far been used by three people, so don't expect commercial-standard robustness if you do unexpected things with it. Contact me with any questions, particularly if it won't run for you. -- GT

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