Watching this thread, I am reminded of my "current" problem...

Having "converted" from Windows completely to Knoppix/Debian, I am "constantly" looking for the "Open Source" versions of programs that were written specificaly for Windows.

Current one is, I bought an "off the shelf" Clip Art program will tons of clip art images, only to find the program (get this) runs on Win98 ONLY ! Figured there is NO WAY I am going back to M$'s OS, I viewed the CD-ROM for images to scavenge off the program. I found more than a thousand images, some in JPEG format, thats good, and more than 98% of them in "Windows Media Format", or WMF - I used GIMP to view a few of them, simply to test that I can read and view these "Windows" specific image files, but would like to know if I could get the same "hover" ability I get with the other "known" image formats, with the WMF images as well...

You know what I mean by "hover" - open a Konqourer window, hover the mouse over a JPG, or other known image format that Knoppix knows about, and you get a nice "thumbnail" view of the image without having to open the image. Very cool if you are search a thousand images for "just the right" image for that publication. Can I make Knoppix "smart" enough to do the same "hover" thumbnail view of a WMF image?????

Also, getting into publications with the currect church I am working for, I am now getting into the monthly newsletter -=- The person I am working with has WinXP, and is currently using Quark Xpress for the publications, does Linux/Open Source/GNU have a "package" that can read/write and work with these formats, in its arsenal already???

Sorry to "piggy-back" this thread, but, the discussion is pretty close to the lines I need answers on -=- merging a WinXP system with a Knoppix/Linux system, and getting it to work, without either party having to "throw away" what they already have.

Thanks tons,
Cuddles