On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 08:07, George Gambill wrote:
> Craig,
> 
> You may be right.  We (myself included) may not understand the question I am asking.  I think what I am asking (and I need to verify this) has to do with precise print placement of the MICR characters (control of) on the check form.  I was told that MS does not provide this.  Having thought about the fact (as I understand it) that MS does not allow precise placement, makes me thing that I don't understand what the question really was.  
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I doubt that you will get any more granular (or perhaps what is being
referred to as micro placement) in openoffice.org than you would get in
an equivalent Microsoft Office product. It is evident that Office
compatibility is the target that openoffice.org is aiming at and Word is
not as adept at printer specific coding as say Corel WordPerfect. 

Microsoft will default to a generic graphic driver, leaving printing as
a fairly imprecise result and when better quality output is desired,
it's probably better to use HP's PJL or even better yet, install Adobe's
postscript driver and suitable PPD. Once you have a higher quality
rendering system, it's not difficult to script the output with precision
that you would never get from the 'office' product, regardless of
whether it was Microsoft's or OpenOffice.org. It's interesting that the
printing subsystem on Linux is always the postscript markup language,
leaving making it possible to always have precision.
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> A pat on the back:  When I first found PLUG, I (at CGC) was playing with RedHat 7.x.  CGC bought the 6-month support version.  RedHat's response was 2 to 4 days.  Plugs response was 2 to 3 hours.  RedHat refused to help with Samba.  PLUG helped with Samba.
> 
> Ladies and gentleman, without PLUG many of us newbie(s) would not be nearly as far down the Linux/OpenSource path as we are.  There is hope.
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Red Hat has multiple tiers of support. Their support turnaround on most
of their plans is 2-3 days unfortunately and I too have found it easier
to get answers from various open source message bases. I have found it
best to subscribe to the specific project's mail list - for example, the
samba list. While we have knowledgeable people on this list, the
samba@lists.samba.org has many of the developers monitoring and
answering the tough questions. I have gotten information of a level from
that list that I simply won't get on this list - and I don't mean any
disrespect for PLUG list participants...many of which are incredibly
knowledgeable.

I appreciate your involvement with CGC and your efforts to direct them
towards the open source options. It's a fine line when you advocate a
change to Linux from Windows as the tendency is to come off as a
Microsoft hater or something of a zealot. The only real truth is that
there are open source options, some better, some worse, some equal to
the proprietary software options of Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, etc. and
often, all that prevents organizations from exploring those options is
the FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) which is typically disseminated by
those who stand to lose the most.

Craig

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