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Offline curaga

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Abiword
« on: April 30, 2009, 11:02:04 AM »
So, here it is, the light word processor everyone's been waiting for ;)

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Title:          abiword.tce
Description:    Abiword word processor
Version:        2.6.8
Author:         Various
Original-site:  http://abisource.com
Copying-policy: GPL
Size:      3.1M
Extension_by:   Curaga
Comments:       Abiword is a light-weight but featureful word
      processor. For additional functionality see the
      abiword-plugins.tce extension.
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      PPI compatible
Change-log:     
Current:        2009/04/30 Original

Here's a screenshot of a PDF exported from this Abiword, viewed in Epdfview:

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Offline alu

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Re: Abiword
« Reply #1 on: April 30, 2009, 01:39:54 PM »
THANK YOU!!! it's great, thanks a lot
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Offline meo

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Re: Abiword
« Reply #2 on: April 30, 2009, 02:54:11 PM »
Hi curaga!

Tkank you for doing what I was unable to accomplish! Abiword with it's plugins works just fantastic! I'm truly amazed. This makes TC a very good option for most of your everyday tasks and makes it more enjoyable to do what you have to, as far as writing docs etc. Thank you again!

Have fun working with TC,
meo
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Offline mcewanw

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Re: Abiword
« Reply #3 on: April 30, 2009, 03:33:01 PM »
This is great and the 2.6.8 version as well. I'm very happy to see this and concur with the other sentiments about how important an addition this is. Thanks greatly.
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Re: Abiword - NO problem reading Office 2007 docx format
« Reply #4 on: April 30, 2009, 09:33:10 PM »
I know that the Puppy Linux developers have had a lot of trouble with Abiword not reading docx format files (from Office 2007); something to do with Abiword changing stuff to do with fonts and not informing developers.

[EDIT] This Abiword IS opening docx files! I had thought it wasn't working but discovered that I hadn't in fact installed the Abiword-plugins extension. With that installed my docx file opened perfectly. Great job Curaga!
« Last Edit: April 30, 2009, 10:56:19 PM by mcewanw »
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Offline curaga

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Re: Abiword
« Reply #5 on: May 01, 2009, 12:55:26 AM »
Heh, I didn't do anything special with regards to the OOXML format :)
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Offline grjack

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Re: Abiword
« Reply #6 on: August 11, 2009, 06:45:02 AM »
I cannot for the life of me get Abiword to open ANY downloaded documents. Even downloaded files using Xandros that are fine in Xandros Openoffice.

TCL Abiword won't  open downloaded.DOC, .RTF, .TXT ....nothing.

When I cat the files they contain the text and are the correct size.

I have downloaded the Abiword plugins. Am on TCL 2.2

Only document files I can use with Abiword are files that are created new with text inserted and then saved.

What am I missing ?

Thanks
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Offline Juanito

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Re: Abiword
« Reply #7 on: August 11, 2009, 08:51:11 AM »
Is it a permissions error maybe- i.e. that the files need to be owned by tc:staff and are owned by root:root?
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Offline grjack

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Re: Abiword
« Reply #8 on: August 11, 2009, 09:21:34 AM »
No , tried tc:staff and root.

Downloading openoffice (all 105mb) to see if that works. Not too optimistic since Siag PW also did not wwork.

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Offline Juanito

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Re: Abiword
« Reply #9 on: August 11, 2009, 09:29:15 AM »
If you start abiword from a terminal window, does it give any useful error messages when you try to open a file?
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Offline grjack

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Re: Abiword
« Reply #10 on: August 11, 2009, 10:07:53 AM »
Openoffice(soffice) works OK.



Abiword gives following when started from command line and a file opened :

Xlib:  extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0".



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Offline ^thehatsrule^

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Re: Abiword
« Reply #11 on: August 11, 2009, 10:22:10 AM »
That warning is safe to ignore
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