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Robert Jalics [Visitor] — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:36:21 +0000

In reply to comment #3: An ebuild for Abiword 2.7 is available in Gentoo bug #272097. Abiword and Anjuta were the last users of libgnomeprint on my system. After upgrading, I was finally able to remove it.

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rt [Visitor] — Thu, 21 May 2009 16:54:46 +0000

Poor support for various file formats makes this office suite almost unusable nowadays. Even one can export their work to PS, convert it to PDF and print it anywhere, it's impossible to open end edit foreign documents. Lack of functionality also cannot be denied.

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Peter Ladik [Visitor] — Thu, 21 May 2009 06:50:42 +0000

Interesting work ! Just stumbled on your post since I'm looking for how-to use siag info because dsl (damnsmalllinux) distribution uses siag and doesnt seem to have any problems running. Siag appears to have been trimmed to fit their 50MB footprint. You might give it a spin. Since it can be loaded from live-cd you can easily fiddle with siag to compare against your build. BTW, DSL can load completely into live memory and it runs really fast in this way. Good Luck !

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Josh Saddler [Member] — Mon, 18 May 2009 19:25:19 +0000

I use Decibel Audio Player: http://decibel.silent-blade.org

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unregistred [Visitor] — Mon, 18 May 2009 19:01:11 +0000

Hi
Its an really great project, maybe there is a developer who would pick up siag. AtM there is no good alternative office-suite for xfce.

Btw.: What music-player are you using? I have exaile, but i found a great app called bluemindo. Maybe i will write an ebuild for it (after i got it to work ^^).
Mfg

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Josh Saddler [Member] — Sat, 16 May 2009 23:50:22 +0000

Thanks for the tip! I'll look into it.

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baaann [Visitor] — Sat, 16 May 2009 23:26:47 +0000

Just a stab in the dark with the font issue, on the ftp server there is a Latin2 folder which contains the following README

"This is a Latin2 kit for Siag Office. It provides replacement fonts
for Times, Helvetica and Courier.

1. Copy all the afm and pfb files to the
/usr/local/share/siag/common/fonts directory.

2. Copy fonts.txt to the /usr/local/share/siag/common
directory.

The Latin2 fonts in this directory come from
ftp.osb.hu:/pub/misc/fonts/local/latin-2
They were created by Peter Soos."

I'm guessing you need these installed?

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Kimmo.H [Visitor] — Thu, 14 May 2009 21:30:37 +0000

Hehe, awesome. :D

It'd be great if XFCE had it's own Office suite and Siag seems to have potential for it. Keep it up!