Re: new user question

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Thu, 22 Aug 2002, Alan Horkan wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Aug 2002, Maiorana, Jason wrote:
>
> > Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 17:58:29 -0400
> > From: "Maiorana, Jason" <jmaiorana idirect net>
> > Reply-To: dia-list gnome org
> > To: dia-list gnome org
> > Subject: RE: new user question
>
> > > i would like to know how to
> > > integrate a drawing in my document word, for i use it
> > > to write a report, and i need these drawings made
> > > by dia in my document.
> >
> > since hicham brought it up, has anyone considered
> > the feasability of making a dia bonobo-component?
>
> that would not help windows users though would it.
>
> would be pretty cool though, view dia attachments directly in
> Evolution/Nautilus, maybe use plugger so you could see them in Mozilla
> too.  http://fredrik.hubbe.net/plugger.html

There was some work on bonobo support a while back, but I don't think it
ever got finished.

> I have wondered for ages why WMF support in Dia is windows only?
> libwmf is cross platform
> http://www.wvware.com/
> http://www.csn.ul.ie/~caolan/docs/libwmf.html
>
> (Abiword use libwmf too i think, says Alan cheerleader for code reuse!)

I was not aware of that.  Sounds like a good addition.

> > > is there a policy on HTML email?
> >
> > I think the policy is that all html email must include
> > a 1x1 transparent bitmap which is requested from a
> > cgi script on a spam-server, passing it your vital
> > statistics as an argument :)
>
> dont forget to also attach the obligatory virus of the week
>
> Microsoft!
> http://www.satirewire.com/news/0103/outlook.shtml

Preferably, it should add a pop-under ad that transmits your every
keystroke to the FBI.

> > Dia-list mailing list
> > Dia-list gnome org
> > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list
>
> Dia
> http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/
>
> (just doing my bit to help skew search engine ratings by including lots
> of links in my emails for when they get archived).

I'm not going to guess at the article number for this article.

-Lars

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