12-08-2008
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Despite that this is a Unix forums I am going to say that Windows XP is a better option. Power control works a lot better in windows and so you will get better life from your battery. Also Microsoft office is the de-facto standard for word processing and spreadsheets so you will probably interoperate better with most people in office formats.
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gsf-office-thumbnailer
GSF-OFFICE-THUMBNAILER(1) GNOME GSF-OFFICE-THUMBNAILER(1)
NAME
gsf-office-thumbnailer - office files thumbnailer for the GNOME desktop
SYNOPSIS
gsf-office-thumbnailer [OPTIONS] infile outfile
DESCRIPTION
This manual page briefly documents the gsf-office-thumbnailer command.
gsf-office-thumbnailer is used internally by GNOME applications such as nautilus to generate thumbnails of several types of office applica-
tion files. While it is possible to invoke it manually, it is usually invoked automatically by nautilus.
OPTIONS
This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with single letter options starting with a single dash (`-') and longer options
starting with two dashes (`--').
Main options
-i, --input=filename
Name of file for which to create a thumbnail
-o, --output=filename
Name of the file in which to store the thumbnail
-s, --size=N
Size of thumbnail in pixels; the thumbnail will be at most N*N pixels large.
Help options
-?, --help
Display a brief usage message
LICENSE
gsf-office-thumbnailer is licensed under the terms of version 2.1 of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) as published by the Free
Software Foundation. For information on this license look at the source code that came with the software or see the GNU project page
<http://www.gnu.org/>.
AUTHOR
gsf-office-thumbnailer's primary author is Federico Mena-Quintero <federico@novell.com>.
The initial version of this manpage was written by J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <jdassen@debian.org>.
gsf August 17, 2005 GSF-OFFICE-THUMBNAILER(1)