[PLUG] Easiest way to get printing going (ideally on Debian)?

Robby Russell matchboy at tearitalldown.com
Sat Dec 7 01:22:06 UTC 2002


Oh yeag
AbiWord is nice too

here is a good link for this question

http://www.cbbrowne.com/info/wp.html


<?echo Robby Russell managed to take the time to type out the following:
> www.openoffice.com
>
> You can use MS Office files...and when you go back to windoze you can
> install it on the windows machine too if she likes it. :-)
>
> otherwise, kword is coming along as well.
>
> openoffice is not kde dependant so you can avoid installing kde if you
> haven't already.
>
> I've been using it for a few years now... me likes.
>
> printer... what type of printer do you have?
>
> -Robby
>
> <?echo Eric House managed to take the time to type out the following:
>> My girlfriend has an IBM laptop that used to be dual-boot: she ran
>> Win98 and I had a small Debian (stable) partition for checking email.
>> Then she got a Windoze virus that seems to be fixable only by a
>> complete reinstall, and so she's living in the Debian partition until
>> we figure out which of her DOS files needs saving.
>>
>> Unlike me, she needs to print.  And I've never set up printing from
>> Linux before.  Specifically, she needs to do formatted wordprocessing
>> and print the results in such a way that they look "professional",
>> i.e. as if they'd been done in Word.
>>
>> Any suggestions on 1) what word processor to set her up with; and 2)
>> what print system to attempt to install?  Does the answer to #2 depend
>> on the answer to #1?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> --Eric House
>>
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