It is articles such as this one, and the one yesterday on <A HREF="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/03/22/216233" TITLE="newsforge.com">Video Production with Linux</a newsforge.com> (even though it appeared on OSNews) that enhance and really bring value to Newsforge. I found an application (Audacity) that even though was on my system, I didn't know I had, and didn't know anything about, even though I needed something exactly like it. Not only have I discovered it thanks to the article (and have received leads on other useful apps), but I get a decent explanation of features and flags.
The same applies to this excellent article on ps2pdf. I have been using it regularly since I discovered that pdf files printed through OpenOffice.org fail to open, with an error message, when I send them to a Windows user. So my early attempts at getting documents to a Windows user using OpenOffice.org was failing (and KDE's Kword crashes regularly and is absolutely useless for me). I switched to printing OpenOffice.org's Write files as postscript, then using ps2pdf to convert to pdf, and then sending those pdf files to a Windows user for printing. Works without any problems whatsoever every time. I may not have checked ps2pdf's functionality on Knoppix 3.2, but it works without any problems at all on Knoppix 3.3
As is usual, with a command line that just works, I fail to check --help or the man pages for other options/flags that will allow me to get more use out of the command. It is articles such as this excellent one today that opens my mind, and informs me and other Newsforge readers to the other possibilities out there with these commands.
I want to send a big thanks to Scott for writing this article. I will put it to good use.
Roblimo, OSDN management, you need more articles like this, both here and on Linux.com, to grow the readership, which is one of your goals for this site, right? Do whatever you have to, raising payments, advertising for articles (more than you already are) or whatever else you can to get quality submissions such as this. I have seen the command line articles that have been appearing lately. I haven't been able to read them all, but I know that I can come back to Newsforge (and Linux.com) and find the articles and read them later when I'm able to.
Newsforge, from the posts I've seen, not only has a readership that is technically proficient and familiar with GNU/Linux, but also has a readership (which must be growing) that is on the newbie side as well. We need the tips, help, hand holding, and more. Bringing attention to apps that are useful and replacements to Windows equivalents are always good. Bringing attention to features in those apps that we may not be aware of is even better. This is what will make the difference between someone that barely gets by, and a power user.
Keep 'em coming, Roblimo, Joe Barr, and others behind the scenes. And the same with the writers, Scott, Paul, and everyone else who has written articles such as this, or has submitted links to articles such as the Video article.
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Posted by: Fonze on March 24, 2004 01:45 AMIt is articles such as this one, and the one yesterday on <A HREF="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/03/22/216233" TITLE="newsforge.com">Video Production with Linux</a newsforge.com> (even though it appeared on OSNews) that enhance and really bring value to Newsforge. I found an application (Audacity) that even though was on my system, I didn't know I had, and didn't know anything about, even though I needed something exactly like it. Not only have I discovered it thanks to the article (and have received leads on other useful apps), but I get a decent explanation of features and flags.
The same applies to this excellent article on ps2pdf. I have been using it regularly since I discovered that pdf files printed through OpenOffice.org fail to open, with an error message, when I send them to a Windows user. So my early attempts at getting documents to a Windows user using OpenOffice.org was failing (and KDE's Kword crashes regularly and is absolutely useless for me). I switched to printing OpenOffice.org's Write files as postscript, then using ps2pdf to convert to pdf, and then sending those pdf files to a Windows user for printing. Works without any problems whatsoever every time. I may not have checked ps2pdf's functionality on Knoppix 3.2, but it works without any problems at all on Knoppix 3.3
As is usual, with a command line that just works, I fail to check --help or the man pages for other options/flags that will allow me to get more use out of the command. It is articles such as this excellent one today that opens my mind, and informs me and other Newsforge readers to the other possibilities out there with these commands.
I want to send a big thanks to Scott for writing this article. I will put it to good use.
Roblimo, OSDN management, you need more articles like this, both here and on Linux.com, to grow the readership, which is one of your goals for this site, right? Do whatever you have to, raising payments, advertising for articles (more than you already are) or whatever else you can to get quality submissions such as this. I have seen the command line articles that have been appearing lately. I haven't been able to read them all, but I know that I can come back to Newsforge (and Linux.com) and find the articles and read them later when I'm able to.
Newsforge, from the posts I've seen, not only has a readership that is technically proficient and familiar with GNU/Linux, but also has a readership (which must be growing) that is on the newbie side as well. We need the tips, help, hand holding, and more. Bringing attention to apps that are useful and replacements to Windows equivalents are always good. Bringing attention to features in those apps that we may not be aware of is even better. This is what will make the difference between someone that barely gets by, and a power user.
Keep 'em coming, Roblimo, Joe Barr, and others behind the scenes. And the same with the writers, Scott, Paul, and everyone else who has written articles such as this, or has submitted links to articles such as the Video article.
Once more, thanks!
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