<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Geoffrey <<a href="mailto:lists@serioustechnology.com">lists@serioustechnology.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">Daniel Howard wrote:<br>
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> Another key Windoz app brought up as a barrier to transitioning to Linux<br>
> was PrintShop. However, if teacher's PCs are still Windoz, then they<br>
> should be able to print banners, science projects, etc. without any<br>
> problem. I did some playing around and found a great way to do banners<br>
> with OpenOffice and Adobe Reader: Open Impress (presentation), set page<br>
> width to say 22 inches (or multiples of 11 inches), and then make a<br>
> banner using graphics, fonts, and word art ("Fontwork") gallery, and<br>
> then copy the entire page. Then open the spreadsheet Calc and set the<br>
> page format to landscape, and then paste the image into the spreadsheet.<br>
> You can then print the banner and Calc will automatically tile it so<br>
> you can cut and paste the individual pages together. Geoffrey, see what<br>
> your wife thinks of that approach compared to PrintShop, and point out<br>
> that anyone can do this at home as well as at school, students and<br>
> teachers without requiring that they all purchase PrintShop.<br>
<br>
</div>I know what she's going to say. Why go through all that when she can do<br>
it much more straight forward with Printshop. I know this woman, been<br>
married 23 years. ;) Thanks for your efforts, but it's got to be<br>
something that's going to be much less painful. Ideally, getting it to<br>
run under Wine or Crossover office will be the right solution. I'll<br>
likely revisit this in the near future. I'll keep folks updated.</blockquote><div><br>So this person can only buy one car because a different car would have the dash controls differently and thus they would be able to drive.<br>
<br>Granted this is likely a person very close so I'll try and not royally be an ass, but, come on! This is EDUCATION!!! IF THE TEACHERS CAN'T LEARN HOW CAN THEY TEACH!!!<br></mostly ending rant><br><br>The reason it can't done with Printshop is that application doesn't run on the new Mac. They will accept that. But tell them it's a Linux box and they can't run their windows software, the sky just falls down.<br>
<br>The important point here that I need to make is so many people have been sold on the "have a need, buy a software package to solve it" mentality they don't see that the software world has changed around them. <br>
<br>Printshop will run fine on a windows terminal server for those people that just can't get by with out. Linux thin clients can run rdesktop nidely and let those that must, run remote microsoft crap.<br><br>But OK. What are they printing banners for anyway? _HOW_ do they print banner? Do they actually have an ink jet printer that supports roll paper? Or are they printing a pile of single sheets and taping them together? pdftools is easy to use. They may have to have a button made for them but it is better than having a windows system to support.<br>
<br></really ending rant><br><br>Sorry I missed this.<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
> Many thought what made the GOSEF story work for Brandon elementary was<br>
> the combination of buy-in by principal and PTA first, then being ignored<br>
> by the district IT staff, demonstrating the benefits, and luckily having<br>
> the test scores go up. I'd say we just kept meeting whatever obstacles<br>
> arose case by case. Since I'm about to do the whole thing over for<br>
> another school, we'll see what makes it happen this time. But we're<br>
> starting with buy-in up front, and no district IT leadership to battle<br>
> this time.<br>
<br>
</div>I agree completely here. If you can get buy in from the school itself,<br>
that gets your foot in the door.<br>
<br>
Thanks for a great presentation.<br>
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Until later, Geoffrey<br>
<br>
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little<br>
temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.<br>
- Benjamin Franklin<br>
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