<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 7:07 AM, Paul Cartwright <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ale@pcartwright.com">ale@pcartwright.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Thu January 29 2009, Geoffrey wrote:<br>
> > Are you saying print it to Postscript, and what? I<br>
> > would still need to RUN it to print, which still means windows.<br>
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> True.<br>
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yes, for now, dual-boot is the answer.. for Visio & Quickbooks.. oh yeah, and<br>
my HP all-in-one, to scan docs to PDF..<br>
here's what I do in Winders(business):<br>
1. email (ok, I use thunderbird.. I can do that in ubuntu)<br>
2. bill & create invoices in Quickbooks<br>
3. scan docs (HP 5610) & create a PDF to send out.<br>
4. spreadsheet ( in OO format, for ME only:)<br>
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how do you do 2 & 3 in linux.. my tax lady does Quickbooks..<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br>I think the most compete financial package for Linux is gnucash. But, I don't know if it can export into quickbooks format or even if it has billing capabilities. I've only toyed with it.<br>
<br>#3 can be done with Xsane. ps2pdf is also a good command-line tool.<br><br>Brian<br>