| === bluekuja_ is now known as bluekuja | ||
| barbara_ | can someone help me i'm in a real bind for time. I am trying to print a pdf in gutsy to send to someone so they can print it off but when i print it as a pdf it puts the margins wrong so when they print it it cuts off parts of the page.... | 18:55 |
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| HedgeMage | What are you printing it in? | 18:56 |
| barbara_ | HedgeMage, just one of our form programs we use... xournal | 18:57 |
| HedgeMage | barbara_: oh, so it's a problem with pdf generation, not printing the pdf? | 18:59 |
| barbara_ | right | 18:59 |
| HedgeMage | I don't know xournal, but something I often see is the paper size option set wrong -- for example on A4 when you want US letter | 19:00 |
| barbara_ | HedgeMage, how do i set that for the pdf printer? | 19:00 |
| HedgeMage | it should be in xournal's options somewhere -- I've never used xournal | 19:01 |
| barbara_ | HedgeMage, looking at the program and it is set to US Letter | 19:02 |
| HedgeMage | barbara_: I have no clue then, sorry | 19:04 |
| johnny | maybe it's the paper sizing in the pdf printer.. | 19:04 |
| johnny | doesn't cups have it's own pdf printer? | 19:04 |
| barbara_ | johnny, i'm using the cups pdf printer and it's screwing up my margins... | 19:14 |
| johnny | the same that that the internal pdf exporter does? | 19:15 |
| johnny | you can export to pdf and then open it up in evince and then print it? | 19:16 |
| barbara_ | well evince isn't even printing for me right now so i'm using xournal to try to print it. | 19:16 |
| johnny | if evince isn't printing, you have other problems | 19:16 |
| johnny | can you print from gedit? | 19:17 |
| barbara_ | it's weird i had to export it as a pdf then i printed from xournal which fixed my margins then i scanned it in using gscan2pdf and that fixed it... | 19:17 |
| johnny | well if you can't print from evince, you should get that looked into at some point | 19:21 |
| johnny | i just know that it prints for me | 19:21 |
| barbara_ | yeah this ltsp thing is just crazy buggy | 19:21 |
| barbara_ | works fine ootb at my other location | 19:21 |
| barbara_ | johnny, I went in and modified the PDF.ppd file for cups pdf the imagable area was wrong. However this still didn't fix it... do you know if there is another ppf that I need to modify? | 19:35 |
| johnny | no idea | 19:36 |
| johnny | i've never used any of these programs you're speaking of | 19:36 |
| johnny | you might want to check the bug list | 19:36 |
| === juliux_ is now known as juliux | ||
| barbara_ | HedgeMage and johnny thx for the help I figured it out! it was the PDF.ppd file by default has the wrong paper margins for US_Letter. compared to my other printer and it works great now | 20:16 |
| johnny_ | anybody here build packages for ubuntu? | 21:20 |
| Flosoft | hi | 22:16 |
| Flosoft | I want to setup an entire school network using Edubuntu | 22:17 |
| Flosoft | the idea is to have Thin Clients using LTSP, but I also have Fat Clients for the teachers and more load intensive works | 22:17 |
| Flosoft | how do I best sync users? | 22:17 |
| Flosoft | maybe some centralized authentification? | 22:18 |
| das-t | i am only starting with edubuntu too but my idea would be: use a central ldap server for storing the user information | 22:20 |
| Flosoft | hmm | 22:20 |
| Flosoft | that was my first idea too | 22:20 |
| Flosoft | but I want something very easially manageable | 22:20 |
| Flosoft | and maybe also set permissions etc. | 22:21 |
| Flosoft | we need to have class folders | 22:21 |
| das-t | http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/LDAP_Client_Authentifizierung <<< a quick research. i don't know, how usable this is. | 22:22 |
| das-t | that could be done via nfs and group settings imo. though again i believe that ldap would help. | 22:22 |
| Flosoft | hmm | 22:23 |
| Flosoft | my idea was to have a shared /home via nfs | 22:23 |
| Flosoft | and then maybe kerebros? | 22:23 |
| das-t | shared home ... one home for all? i have never thought about that, i just guess it might get a bit strange if several people are using the same home at the same time. | 22:24 |
| Flosoft | no | 22:25 |
| das-t | http://wiki.debian.org/LDAP | 22:25 |
| Flosoft | I mean: the /home/ is shared on the server ... and then mounted on the fat clients via NFS | 22:25 |
| das-t | ok, i have never attempted that. | 22:25 |
| das-t | and isn't kerberos just a way to encrypt the identification process? not to send plain passwords etc | 22:26 |
| Flosoft | you're asking the wrong person :) | 22:27 |
| das-t | ok, then we misunderstood each other regarding the homes ;-) | 22:27 |
| das-t | that is what i remember | 22:27 |
| das-t | i think it is this way: you can use kerberos for identificatin (windows machines with active directory use this) and then ldap as a central user database. so you should as well get a centralized way for access control. | 22:28 |
| Flosoft | hmm k | 22:29 |
| das-t | i am no expert and just guessing from half-burried windows knowledge. i am just about to look into all this again because i want to build a samba ldap server | 22:29 |
| Flosoft | ah | 22:29 |
| Flosoft | https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OpenLDAPServer | 22:30 |
| das-t | yes, kerberos is just an authentication method to prevent man in the middle. | 22:30 |
| Flosoft | https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SingleSignOn | 22:31 |
| Kamping_Kaiser | Flosoft, you want ldap | 22:31 |
| Kamping_Kaiser | and yes, you could do nfs homes | 22:31 |
| Flosoft | is this the thing I want? https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SingleSignOn | 22:31 |
| Kamping_Kaiser | i've abused pam to do that in the past, but i was havving nfs/dns issues :\ | 22:31 |
| Flosoft | it uses OpenLDAP | 22:31 |
| Kamping_Kaiser | libpam-ldap is ultra handy in this instance | 22:32 |
| Flosoft | the thing I need is something easially manageable ... a webinterface? | 22:32 |
| das-t | there are ldap interfaces | 22:33 |
| Kamping_Kaiser | what sort of easily? i find typing 'ldapadduser' fairly painless myself ;) | 22:33 |
| Flosoft | hmm | 22:33 |
| Flosoft | I was at first thinking about using Ubuntu Landscape | 22:34 |
| das-t | well, i am a console guy too, so i don't konw | 22:34 |
| Flosoft | to sync the users between the workstations etc. | 22:34 |
| Kamping_Kaiser | using libpam-ldap+openldap you dont need syncing. it'll look up users as needed | 22:35 |
| Flosoft | yeah | 22:36 |
| Flosoft | what about groups etc? | 22:37 |
| Flosoft | I don't want the users to see all the configuration settings | 22:38 |
| Flosoft | can I hide them for a linux group? | 22:38 |
| Kamping_Kaiser | you can put groups in ldap... is that your question? | 22:39 |
| Flosoft | well what if I don't use ldap for now | 22:40 |
| Kamping_Kaiser | you can try NIS+ (i havent) or some mashup of puppet/cfengine (i have) | 22:41 |
| Flosoft | what do they do exactly? | 22:41 |
| Kamping_Kaiser | !nis | 22:42 |
| ubotu | Sorry, I don't know anything about nis - try searching on http://ubotu.ubuntu-nl.org/factoids.cgi | 22:42 |
| Kamping_Kaiser | bah. nis= network information services | 22:42 |
| das-t | i don't know nis, but as far as i know it is inferior to ldap, i was told it was difficult to manag.e | 22:44 |
| Flosoft | ok | 22:44 |
| Kamping_Kaiser | nis? its effectively superceded by ldap | 22:45 |
| Kamping_Kaiser | sorry, that was agreeing with das-t , not some new point ;) | 22:45 |
| das-t | ;-) | 22:47 |
| Kamping_Kaiser | !puppet | 22:47 |
| ubotu | Sorry, I don't know anything about puppet - try searching on http://ubotu.ubuntu-nl.org/factoids.cgi | 22:47 |
| Kamping_Kaiser | !cfengine | 22:47 |
| ubotu | Sorry, I don't know anything about cfengine - try searching on http://ubotu.ubuntu-nl.org/factoids.cgi | 22:47 |
| Kamping_Kaiser | frigsake ubotu! | 22:48 |
| Kamping_Kaiser | i've needed you to know 3 things in the last few days, and you didnt know any | 22:48 |
| Kamping_Kaiser | wonder if the ops would mind me spamming more suggestions to them | 22:50 |
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