This is my next article in my “perfect” Garuda Linux install. Remember that I’m coming from Ubuntu and was looking for something different. If you haven’t followed along, here’s the articles so far:
In this post, I’m going to go through setting up my computer for my professional work tasks and different productivity apps.
I upgraded LibreOffice the other day and ran into a few issues. Here are my notes. Please comment if you find better fixes or details than what I found.
This is a continuation of my notes on installing Ubuntu 16.04. In this post, I install the programs that I use to work (aside from programming).
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Many times, I find that I need to create a document that includes either code or output from a command-line. I haven’t found that either LibreOffice or Microsoft Word provide good styling to make that code or output look nice in a technical document. Below is how I created some Paragraph styles in both programs to display the code. I would love feed back on how I can improve the look. Please Comment Below.
I ran across the articles on WebUpd8 and OMGUbuntu about the latest version of LibreOffice. I decided to give it a try. New features are always great.
Here’s all I did:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Here is a little script that I put together that installs Office 2007 for me.
Now, this script makes the following assumptions:
Also, just for information, here is my setup
export WINEPREFIX=$HOME/wine/office2007 mkdir $WINEPREFIX winetricks msxml3 dotnet20 gdiplus riched20 riched30 vcrun2005sp1 allfonts ie6 winetricks vista wine /media/cdrom0/setup.exe winetricks winxp
I hope it helps.
I have been looking for a way to convert a PDF to either a Word Document or an Open Office document. Basically, I have some instructions for installing software delivered as a PDF with the software from the vendor. I would like to be able to convert that document to something I can edit and add my notes to it as I install. Currently, I just handwrite the notes on the printed copy of the instructions. If I could convert it to Word or Open Office, the end result would be searchable and I could add screenshots.
I found a great link that will convert documents online:
http://www.convertpdftoword.net/
This worked for a small document, but my instructions document did not work. I am assuming that it is because it was too large.
I found a plugin that says it can import PDFs for Open Office 3.0. I haven’t tried it yet. I will try to do that and report back.
A while back, I found that importing PDFs was on the ToDo list.
I just saw an article from LXF saying that Open Office 3.0 is ready for download. I installed it, but I haven’t used it enough to really comment on it yet.
The download was pretty easy. I downloaded the zip file, uncompressed it, and then I used dpkg -i to install all of the deb files. They installed into the /opt directory, which was great because now I can have both versions.
Linux Format Magazine pointed out that Fedora has released a beta of Fedora 9 and Ubuntu has released Ubuntu 8.04.
These features caught my eye from the Fedora 9 Feature List:
They also pointed out that Open Office 2.4 has been released! Will it be in Fedora 9?
