Re: sending mails to list...

2003-03-30 Thread Dom Lachowicz
Hi Chris, Try to explain in words what the problem is. If it turns out that it is a bug (and isn't a duplicate of another bug), I'll ask you to file it away at bugzilla.abisource.com You aren't blacklisted, you just sent too large of a message to the list, and your message got dropped. Dom ---

Re: abiword, problems with tab stopps...

2003-03-30 Thread Dom Lachowicz
Well, the 1.1.x releases are unstable so you assume all risks and liabilities for using them... Also, using tabs to achieve this type of layout should be discouraged. With that said, upgrade to 1.1.4 or CVS HEAD - I think that this problem is fixed. Dom --- Chris Joelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Referenced directory

2003-03-28 Thread Dom Lachowicz
What i think is bothering him is that Abiword is not very good about rememberin that last directory you used. For example the file open dialog might be more useful if it reopened in the last reused directory. Similarly the clipart dialog is way more useful if it when it opens it starts

Re: EPS support

2003-03-28 Thread Dom Lachowicz
http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2462 Dom --- Alan G Isaac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of the real irritations using Word was that it pretended to be a high end document production tool but it never supported a core graphics format: it offered no EPS display except for files

Re: some troubles about 1.1.4

2003-03-26 Thread Dom Lachowicz
Hi Stefano, It's great that you tried this out. However, posting bugs on the user list is counter-productive. I recently wrote the following on gnomedesktop.org: We appreciate your trying it out, but comments like this in gnomedesktop.org are useless to us and ultimately to your own cause.

Re: no configure script ?

2003-03-26 Thread Dom Lachowicz
I forgot to generate the configure script. Run ./autogen.sh and then configure Dom --- Parrenin Fr�d�ric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, Excuse-me if my question is basic, I am not an expert. I want to compile abiword-1.1.4 from sources. I have made that with version 1.1.3 without

Re: abiword-1.0.5 build failed

2003-03-25 Thread Dom Lachowicz
2 choices: 1) Don't use expat (you probably have libxml2 installed anyway, and that's much better than expat) 2) Use the CVS stable version which has a patch/fix that corrects this problem. Dom --- Albert Wagner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Running LFS-4.0 with gcc-3.2, installing

Re: gnumeric's toolbars

2003-03-21 Thread Dom Lachowicz
--- ephemeron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gnumeric's toolbars are functionally better than abiword's. In Gnumeric (1.1.6) when a toolbar has too many icons, a rightward pointing triangle appears at the right edge of the toolbar. Click on the toolbar and the hidden icons pop up. Since both

Re: preserving magnification from session to session?

2003-03-13 Thread Dom Lachowicz
(1) The tool bar is a bit long for 640x480 displays. I imagine that for the time being this can't be changed, but I thought that I would ask anyway (yes, unfortunately, I'm using a 640x480 display). Sorry, this is a bug in GTK+ that won't be fixed until GTK+ 2.4 (2) Is there any way of

Re: page numbering

2003-03-11 Thread Dom Lachowicz
--- Landy Roman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is an unconfirmed bug in Bugzilla that describes a similar problem: http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4397 Can you please attach your document to this bug (NOT to an email) so we can attempt to reproduce the problem.

Re: Plugin Status Page on TWiki

2003-03-08 Thread Dom Lachowicz
--- Randy Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's an attempt at a page to reflect the status of plugins: http://www.abisource.com/twiki/bin/view/Abiword/PluginMatrix Looking for comments / suggestions, maybe first on the format, although trying to enter some real (or correct) data may

Re: Abiword-1.1.3 on Mandrake 9.0

2003-03-02 Thread Dom Lachowicz
--- F J Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1 the configure told me that wv would not provide wmf to png facility (I compiled 1.0.3 with libwmf and all went well) Please just ignore that warning. This is a meaningless warning for abi. 2

Re: make rpm from abiword source

2003-02-18 Thread Dom Lachowicz
The following is the quote of a response Dom Lachowicz sent to someone else on the same subject a few weeks ago (hmm, maybe I should add this to the FAQ -- let me know if these instructions are sufficient of if something else should be added): You can also build from SRC RPMs

Re: make rpm from abiword source

2003-02-18 Thread Dom Lachowicz
--- Rob Woodard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: He was replying to me. I got stuck at the point of just grab the spec file out of the RedHat RPMs. I don't know how to do that. Rob, Go grab one of the SRPMS. rpmbuild --rebuild abiword.src.rpm Anything beyond this can be found in 'man rpm' or

Re: AbiWord Weekly News #131 (2003, week 07) released

2003-02-18 Thread Dom Lachowicz
I think that your WOOT! tag needs some blink or marquee action, Zen ;-) Dom --- ericzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this will be automated some day...maybe this month if something magical happens, Layfolk here: http://www.abisource.com/news Community reporters here:

Re: Segfault Bug

2003-02-12 Thread Dom Lachowicz
Hi Tom, ./abiword: line 67: 3395 Aborted $ABISUITE_LIBEXEC/AbiWord_d $@ This by itself is extremly un-useful. I'm not a c programmer, just someone who really likes this program and wants to help get this bug fixed before version 2. Since I do have the source for 1.0.4,

Re: Type on top of a PDF?

2003-02-06 Thread Dom Lachowicz
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many many times, I have gotten a PDF form that I have had to fill in. I always have to resort to printing the form out and filling it in by hand with a pen. This sucks. I am wondering, what is the feasibility of something like Abiword rendering (using

Re: Type on top of a PDF?

2003-02-06 Thread Dom Lachowicz
At the moment these are your only alternatives. It amazes me that nobody has identified this need and filled it yet. Many have identified this need. It's a difficult and problematic problem space, and one that Adobe is very fierce about protecting, traditionally. Importing PDF will be

Re: How to document for html and Word

2003-02-01 Thread Dom Lachowicz
Hi Jeremiah, If you wouldn't mind, please type this up as an AbiWord document (all of our documentation is in our native format). I'll then include it in our documentation module and generate Text or HTML as-needed using (what else? ;-) AbiWord. Thanks again! Dom --- Jeremiah Foster [EMAIL

Re: Lotus Wordpro

2003-01-27 Thread Dom Lachowicz
Hi Paul, I'll join the developer list, and repost there, what I may do, is build a simple filter, and then expand on it as I need to expand it, I have the AbiWord 1.0.3 source (I'll see about getting a CVS copy before I do this), is there sample filter code there, and if so where?

Re: Lotus Wordpro

2003-01-25 Thread Dom Lachowicz
Hi Paul, No such filter exists for AbiWord. This is something that can be done, provided you have enough sample files and some documentation on the file format. I've written or helped write most of the current AbiWord filters, so I could help you construct an importer for this format. But all in

Announce: 1.1.3 released

2003-01-22 Thread Dom Lachowicz
We're very proud to announce a new development release of AbiWord- 1.1.3 represents a huge number of bugfixes and new features over previous versions of Abi. Users aren't encouraged to use this in production settings, but it could be useful in day-to-day type environments and for testing. Win32

Re: Paras

2003-01-21 Thread Dom Lachowicz
Please see bug 4467 and in particular bugs 2115,2832, 3366 http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4467 http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2115 http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2832 http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3366 Dom --- charles smyth [EMAIL

RE: Paras

2003-01-21 Thread Dom Lachowicz
to be the only WP that does this directly. Textpad will too, once you know the character code. ^p for word \n for textpad. Yours Charles. -Original Message- From: Dom Lachowicz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 21 January 2003 21:02 To: charles smyth; '[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: insert / overwrite mode

2003-01-19 Thread Dom Lachowicz
Hit the Insert key on your keyboard again. On my keyboard, it's above Delete and to the left of Home. Dom --- Lee Harr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi; This may be related to a bug in an older version, but maybe someone can help me work around this... Sometimes abiword gets in to a weird

Re: Gnome 2

2003-01-18 Thread Dom Lachowicz
http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4468 (There's not much there so far, but it may be useful in the future -- I'll put that URL on the TWiki page There's quite a bit there, actually, just below the surface. This bug blocks other META bugs which cover quite a large range of

Re: Bugzilla not available?

2003-01-17 Thread Dom Lachowicz
The IP address for *.abisource.com and *.abiword.com is 137.48.69.6 We're trying to work out the DNS issues, but the problem is out of our control. Patience is appreciated. Dom --- Alan Horkan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: some people have been having problems connecting to the various abiword

Re: Gnome 2

2003-01-15 Thread Dom Lachowicz
--- ephemeron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are there any plans of doing a Gnome 2, or at least GTK 2, port of abiword? AbiWord is probably the only remaining Gnome 1.X/GTK 1.X userware in my system. Our CVS version is based on GTK+2.0. You can either grab CVS or the 1.1.2 release. I recommend

Re: Placing digital photos in a document

2003-01-15 Thread Dom Lachowicz
AbiWord only natively handles PNG images. If you have one of the following plugins, JPGs will work too: ImageMagick GdkPixbuf JPEG Plugins available from www.sourceforge.net/projects/abiword/ Dom --- Rich Shepard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to put some digital photos on a page and

Re: Hello all, I got a little problem with Abiword (also applies to Gnumeric). The space between two letters is too much. I checked all preferences, and honestly can't find anything. I woudn't mind that not all fonts seem to get regognized, I (would) use Abiword for letters and Openoffice for the real big (20 pages +) stuff, so I don't mind the fonts. But right now, I can't use the programm at all for the space problem above. I use Abiword 1.0.2, the packages provided with my RedHat 8.0 Thanks for any help

2003-01-12 Thread Dom Lachowicz
Same as this problem: http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-user/2002/Oct/0059.html Solution here: http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-user/2002/Oct/0080.html Dom --- Georg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Text format problem Content-Type: text/plain;

Re: UI language and default 'save as' option

2003-01-01 Thread Dom Lachowicz
1. Is it possible to save as a Word document (.doc) as default 'save as' action? No. It is not possible. We don't write .doc at all. Well, we can save as RTF, which will be close enough. In your AbiWord.profile file, you'll need to add the following line to your custom profile:

Re: problem installing on Mandrake 9.0

2002-12-13 Thread Dom Lachowicz
In other words Bernard, the answer is Yes. If you have Mandrake, you either have to hunt for an unsupported compilation (thank you Hal Curtis for the pointer) or use OpenOffice.org (my solution). In the meantime we Mandrake users just have to wait. I don't know how to make a Mandrake

Re: is this list active

2002-12-05 Thread Dom Lachowicz
--- Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't seen any new messages since the first It's certainly active. Our server was down for about 24 hours at least now. Dom __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now.

Re: cvs head doesn't seem to like gcc-3.2

2002-11-28 Thread Dom Lachowicz
CVS Head works fine for me compiling under GCC 3.2 (RedHat 8 on X86). This sounds like a GCC issue and not our problem. I guess keep on using 2.95 if it works for you. Dom Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I built abiword cvs head for the last couple of days ending up a littledisappointed

Re: Styles

2002-11-27 Thread Dom Lachowicz
In google, search for normal.awt . Specifically, this might help you: http://www.abisource.com/help/en-US/howto/howtonormaltemplate.html Dom --- alastair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is it possible to set a default font/format for all documents in AbiWord? And, a further question: If I

Re: problem with abiword-1.1.2 and recent gnome

2002-11-19 Thread Dom Lachowicz
The --enable-gnome flag doesn't work in CVS HEAD. We have no GNOME 2 port/build as of yet. What we have is a GTK 2 port. Dom --- Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm, --enable-debug seems to cause really weird things when building ... Any idea on that? BTW: I'm on ydl2.3 (linux-ppc) compiling

Fwd: Release: 1.1.2

2002-11-17 Thread Dom Lachowicz
Note: forwarded message attached. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your site http://webhosting.yahoo.com ---BeginMessage--- I'm *very* happy to announce the latest installment in the AbiWord development cycle, 1.1.2, aka

Re: Request bug confirmation

2002-11-13 Thread Dom Lachowicz
Hi Steve, This works for me on RH8 using the development version (CVS HEAD) Dom --- Steve Blackwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Can anyone confirm this bug. a) Start Abiword. b) Format-Bullets/Numbering c) Select Type = Numbered d) Select Style = Lower case roman e) Click on the

Re: Norwegian aspell dictionaries do not work with abiword

2002-11-05 Thread Dom Lachowicz
PROTECTED] wrote on 05/11/2002 (16:52) : Dom Lachowicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 05/11/2002 (16:46) : Your abiword is probably built with ispell support and not aspell/pspell. It's just a guess, but probably a good one. I have aspell set up, and de_DE, en_US, and da_DK working fine. I uninstalled

Re: AWN 116 updated.

2002-11-04 Thread Dom Lachowicz
Yup, it's all cool. I'm not mad. Just don't call anyone a bunch of p*ssies in the weekly news again, please :) It's not the press that we deserve, and the KOffice folks don't deserve it either. Dom On Monday, November 4, 2002, at 09:26 PM, ericzen wrote: Editorial disclaimer added. Dom, it is

Announce: Weekly Patch Prize

2002-10-31 Thread Dom Lachowicz
Eric has a breakdown of the AbiWord fund as of last Monday. We've received some considerable donations since then, and the fund currently stands at about $1420 US. That's quite a bit of money for a project with no appreciable expenses. So Martin and I were thinking of some ways to spend our

Re: Spell Check Won't Work

2002-10-30 Thread Dom Lachowicz
Phil, On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 11:01, Phil Dibowitz wrote: 3. Perhaps.. a note Note Debain users, debian abiword is compiled with pspell support, you'll need the aspell-en package... and maybe if you want to be extra verbose a word on how aspell and pspell are connected Debian is actually a

Re: CRASHED file question.

2002-10-30 Thread Dom Lachowicz
Hi Steve, On Wednesday, October 30, 2002, at 02:14 PM, Steve Blackwell wrote: 1) Is there an archive of the abiword-user list and if so where is it? http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/ Google will also show you the archives, in searchable format. 2) Abiword crashed when I was playing

PayPal update

2002-10-28 Thread Dom Lachowicz
A very nice and polite woman named Heather from PayPal called my home number this morning in order to resolve this dispute between AbiWord and PayPal. She emailed me 2 affidavits that I must sign, notarize, and then mail via post back to the PayPal headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska. The $581

Re: temp file used by AbiWord?

2002-10-28 Thread Dom Lachowicz
When AbiWord crashes, it can save a temporary file for you. Looked for filename.CRASHED Also, I might suggest things like enabling the auto-save feature, and hitting the Save icon from time to time (or Control-S). We will continue to keep adding features. Sorry that AbiWord crashed on you.

Re: Announce: AbiWord Fund Robbed

2002-10-27 Thread Dom Lachowicz
On Sunday, October 27, 2002, at 11:26 AM, Carla Schroder wrote: On Friday 25 October 2002 07:09, Dom Lachowicz wrote: I'm duty bound to let you all know that the AbiWord Fund/Tip Jar has been robbed approximately three weeks ago. I'm telling you this now, rather than sooner, since I believed

Announce: AbiWord Fund Robbed

2002-10-25 Thread Dom Lachowicz
I'm duty bound to let you all know that the AbiWord Fund/Tip Jar has been robbed approximately three weeks ago. I'm telling you this now, rather than sooner, since I believed that Paypal would do something about my complaints during the interim, and that this would all be resolved quietly.

Re: Announce: AbiWord Fund Robbed

2002-10-25 Thread Dom Lachowicz
I would also like to take this opportunity to again thank all of you who have contributed to making the AbiWord fund what it is today, regardless of the recent robbery. We've been very lucky in terms of user's contributions to our cause, both monetarily and as a general support group. You guys

Re: Problem inserting images

2002-10-07 Thread Dom Lachowicz
In addition to FJF's suggestions, you could also try out the ImageMagick or GdkPixbuf plugin. The gimp plugin doesn't give us access the the Gimp's filters, it gives you the ability to spawn the gimp on a given image inside your document, edit it, and then have that image magically replace the

Re: Problem inserting images

2002-10-07 Thread Dom Lachowicz
You might have run into the infamous incompatible libpng bug on Mandrake. Abi runs fine on Mandrake. Those RPMs you downloaded were built on RedHat against a different libpng. That could explain *everything*. Dom On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 17:18, Rob Woodard wrote: Additionally, I was just now able

Re: Hacking a password protected word doc

2002-09-28 Thread Dom Lachowicz
You can only open the files with AbiWord if you have the correct passwords. This also precludes the ability of just extracting the formatting and ignoring the actual text contents. Dom On Saturday, September 28, 2002, at 12:15 PM, ephemeron wrote: I have a couple (actually more like a

Re: Corrupted document

2002-09-26 Thread Dom Lachowicz
Hi, Please attach the document in question to your email. It'll be easier to actually retrieve its contents and figure out what went wrong from a developer's perspective. If you don't want to send that document to the mailing list, send it to me individually. Also, was AbiWord crashing or was

Forward: Abiword on OSDir.com (new O'Reilly site)

2002-09-25 Thread Dom Lachowicz
I just added Abiword to http://OSDir.com (new O'Reilly site). There is some code here if you'd like your users to be able to vote for and comment on Abiword from the Abiword website: http://osdir.com/ modules.php?op=modloadname=Downloadsfile=indexreq=outsidedownloadsetu plid=64 Also, if

Re: Two profiles ?

2002-09-17 Thread Dom Lachowicz
Hi Uri, Please go to www.abisource.com and file a Request For Enhancement. Dom On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 06:02, Uri Elias wrote: I use AW both for english typing (left-to-right) and hebrew (right-to-left). The change between the two defaults is long: tools - preferences - schemes - bidi

Re: Writing Macros/Shared Libraries?

2002-09-11 Thread Dom Lachowicz
On Wednesday, September 11, 2002, at 12:09 PM, Dr. M wrote: Hello! I am hoping to convert some PALM DOC documents into xhtml for a class. ABI word does this nicely, but I can only do it one document at a time. Are there any macros which expedite this? I can code OK--is there somewhere

POW: convert aiksaurus to GTK+2

2002-09-04 Thread Dom Lachowicz
with any changes made in #2. That should be all, I think. If you want, you can email me for help, or even better - stop bye on IRC so we can work in real-time: irc.gnome.org#abiword Thanks and good luck, Dom Lachowicz, AbiWord maintainer --- To unsubscribe

Re: compiling on BeOS

2002-08-30 Thread Dom Lachowicz
Hi Ignaz, No one has been working on the BeOS version of AbiWord for about 1 year now, so I really don't know how useful it currently is, or even if it still builds or works. That said, you should have these packages checked out from our cvs: abi abidistfiles wv libiconv libpng Inside of

AbiWord Tip Jar Thank You

2002-07-30 Thread Dom Lachowicz
in attendance at the Gnome Summit, at which Martin and Dom participated in and led a discussion session on the future of Gnome Office and AbiWord: Martin Sevior Dom Lachowicz Pat Lam Alan Horkan Will Lachance Sam TH Information can be found here: http://www.abisource.com/~dom/tipjar/paypal_donations.html

Re: Spell checker

2002-06-21 Thread Dom Lachowicz
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[Fwd: commit HEAD: fix bug 3351]

2002-06-06 Thread Dom Lachowicz
Update to bug report by Alex Barta. Dom ---BeginMessage--- files: fv_View.cpp, ap_EditMethods.cpp This should be backported to STABLE Tomas ---End Message---

Re: Please help with bidi support!!!

2002-06-05 Thread Dom Lachowicz
Hi Allesandro, I've looked at your bug, and here's what I have to say on the subject: I think that you've confused paragraph alignment with character alignment. What I want you to do is: View-Toolbars-Extra Toolbar Toward the right on the 3rd toolbar, you'll see 3 icons: abc cba P what you

Re: Please help with bidi support!!!

2002-06-05 Thread Dom Lachowicz
can address your concerns. Dom /who used to get a good feeling from trying to help users/ On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 16:57, Alessandro Baretta wrote: Dom Lachowicz wrote: Hi Allesandro, I've looked at your bug, and here's what I have to say on the subject: I think that you've confused

Re: Passwords in WORD docs

2002-05-28 Thread Dom Lachowicz
Hi Francois, This definitely works in AbiWord 1.0.2 Dom On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 11:50, Francois AUDIBERT wrote: Dear All, I'm unable to open word document with AbiWord 1.01 neither under Windows 98 or under Debian 2.0 when these have a password protection. Under Debian, I'm rejected

Re: Some problems Part II and a request

2002-05-23 Thread Dom Lachowicz
On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 12:50, M.W. wrote: Speaking of this preferences file, it contains a setting: DefaultSaveFormat=.abw I have tried to change this to .doc - and it just gets changed back to .abw This is one of my requests for the program - the ability to have a DefaultSaveFormat of

Re: disappearing /usr/share/AbiSuite/fonts/fonts.dir

2002-05-23 Thread Dom Lachowicz
xfs, the X Font server, removes this file and Redhat knows about the problem. chmod -w on the file will fix things. Dom On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 13:57, Bernie Dolan wrote: Greetings: I don't know why this is happening and I'm wondering if anybody else has stumbled across this problem. I've

Re: The opening document

2002-05-13 Thread Dom Lachowicz
Hi Bernard, I don't quite understand what you're saying here. Please rephrase your email, and I will try my best to help. If applicable, please send screenshots too. If you would like to, send me this request in French and English, I will try to have a French friend of mine translate it for me.

Re: libgal.so.7 - again revisited

2002-05-13 Thread Dom Lachowicz
On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 06:00, david thompson wrote: hi I seem to have got some points wrong, or at least one which produced another error - namely that I did not realise that every posting to this forum is open. So to the person-developer who flamed me regarding my crit. of finding this

Re: libgal.so.7

2002-05-10 Thread Dom Lachowicz
On Fri, 2002-05-10 at 05:11, david thompson wrote: A reply to my enquiry and comment about libgal was made yesterday, a copy of which is attached. See how bad tempered it is. My reply is below. In all honesty, I could've been a lot harsher quite easily. I have looked repeatedly in rpm.net

Re: libgal.so.7

2002-05-10 Thread Dom Lachowicz
On Fri, 2002-05-10 at 14:27, Alessandro Baretta wrote: If, for example, instead of flaming Mr. Thompson, Mr. Lachowicz had spent a few seconds reading my--repeated--requests for help on the right-to-left feature of Abiword, now there would be one more happy user of Abiword and a greater

Re: Fwd: a abi-on-Mac OS X question

2002-05-02 Thread Dom Lachowicz
I have an idea of what's going on here. Try this from a terminal: setenv LANG en_US and then run abiword from the terminal Dom On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 11:11, Julian Clementson wrote: Hi Frank, Thanks for offering to help: At 3:54 pm +0100 2/5/02, F J Franklin wrote: On Thu, 2 May 2002,

Re: command line?

2002-04-29 Thread Dom Lachowicz
abiword --to file_format foo.doc eg: abiword --to abw foo.doc abiword --to txt foo.doc ... Try google next time. Dom On Sat, 2002-04-27 at 16:17, der Mouse wrote: I'd expect this to be a recurring question, but it didn't show up in the FAQs on the webpages I want a command-line tool

ANNOUNCE: RELEASE 1.0!!!

2002-04-18 Thread Dom Lachowicz
From the I don't think you're ready for this jelly department AbiWord 1.0 aka. Bootylicious is released upon the masses. Exactly 7 years ago next Tuesday the first AbiWord project started. The project lasted 341 years and 5 days and attracted the interest of developers throughout the world.

Re: Fwd: Questions

2002-04-16 Thread Dom Lachowicz
On Tue, 2002-04-16 at 05:30, Alan Horkan wrote: maybe not StarOffice they follow the RFT standard exactly, but Microsoft does not follow the standard (and we chose to follow MS) so it breaks. http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2244 But besides plaintext, Rich Text Format

Re: Swedish spelling

2002-04-11 Thread Dom Lachowicz
Ok, this is assuming that you grabbed one of *our* release builds. If you got AbiWord from Debian or somewhere else, you're probably basically screwed over by them, so go complain to them. Go here: http://www.abisource.com/~fjf/ Go grab the swedish hash file (sv-SE, svenska.hash). You'll

Re: Unique Words Count [was Re: Hi!]

2002-04-11 Thread Dom Lachowicz
On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 14:32, Alan Horkan wrote: This has not been suggested before as far as i know. I suggest you add this to bugzilla as an RFE (request for enhancement) so that is not forgotten about. If you could describe the other methods for evaluting how rich your lexicon is in

Re: Off-line dictionary? [was Re: Loss of enthusiasim for AbiWord]

2002-04-10 Thread Dom Lachowicz
Correct me if I'm wrong. But this implementation chains you to the web. So I have to be on-line just to know the meaning of STFW. If the plugin uses instead the dict protocol, I could use my local dict server from within AbiWord. The dictionary plugin does use the dict protocol - gdict uses

Re: path for usual textes saving

2002-04-08 Thread Dom Lachowicz
On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 14:57, Bernard Lambey wrote: Please, someone is he knowing a way to preserve (in a variable, maybe, or ... somewhere!) the path actually used to save the textes made with AW ? This is in order to be able to have immediately AW prepared to receive in the good folder (or

Re: plain text

2002-03-27 Thread Dom Lachowicz
On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 07:11, Francisco Bornéo wrote: for two weeks i will need write texts, a long one, and they need to be written in .txt, how can I set AbiWord to create a norma.awt that opens and saves in plain text? Well a template plain text. Do I need to edit AbiWord.Profile? Open

RE: Abi and RTF standards

2002-03-25 Thread Dom Lachowicz
On Sun, 2002-03-24 at 18:32, Virgil Arrington Jr. wrote: From the Sane Anarchist, I would like to have perfect compatability with Word, just like when I design a web page I want perfect compatability with Internet Explorer. But not at the loss of complying with the standards that

RE: Atlantis and Abi

2002-03-25 Thread Dom Lachowicz
1.) Actually export in MS Word format, so as not to confuse applications that rely entirely on extention or Patches certainly welcome. OpenOffice has a team that's been working on this for over 3 years now and still hasn't gotten it 100% correct 2.) When saving as a .doc file, make the

RE: Abi and RTF standards

2002-03-25 Thread Dom Lachowicz
On Mon, 2002-03-25 at 14:06, Virgil Arrington Jr. wrote: Can I assume then that the bug I filed (2503) concerning Abi not saving the font size code to blank lines in RTF files will not be addressed? It will be addressed. The font code size should be saved to all lines, and this really is a

Re: Small Aiksaurus Problem

2002-03-20 Thread Dom Lachowicz
On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 02:02, Nicholas Jessen wrote: First, I just want to congratulate all of the people working on AbiWord on a great, much improved release. Great work. I was very pleased to see that most of the problems I was having with the Aiksaurus plugin have been fixed. I have

Re: Styles and Shortcut Keys

2002-03-20 Thread Dom Lachowicz
On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 18:50, Virgil Arrington Jr. wrote: I noticed that the recent version of Abi no longer has an option in the styles dialog box to assign a shortcut keystroke to styles. I realize the previous option never worked, but now it is no longer there at all. Does this mean

Re: A fond Wish for 1.0

2002-03-19 Thread Dom Lachowicz
On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 14:22, Dennis Tuchler wrote: That, when trying to install using red carpet, I got the message: Package abiword needs package libgal.so.7 which cannot be found. In any case, shouldn't abiword take care to be sure that its published software is free of such nonsense?

Re: AbiWord 0.99.3 released.

2002-03-18 Thread Dom Lachowicz
We already have a working English thesaurus on unix and on windows. It's called aiksaurus (http://www.aiksaurus.com) It's working via a plugin. You can grab it from http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/abiword Dom On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 12:25, Reuben D Budiardja wrote: On Sunday 17 March 2002

Re: Fwd: Re: Perplexing Problems

2002-03-14 Thread Dom Lachowicz
The plugin has to be reinstalled every time I restart. Without it abiword will only accept two formats, even though I'm using GNOME and put in the gnome option when installing There's a bug in bugzilla about this. I personally don't like the bug and want to close it - AbiWord on unix looks

Re: Fwd: Re: path in the title bar

2002-03-12 Thread Dom Lachowicz
On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 20:03, Francisco Bornéo wrote: I'm forward this message because I forgot CC Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 21:55:10 -0300 To: Virgil Arrington Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Francisco Bornéo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: path in the title bar At 22:20 11/3/2002 +,

Re: Auto save

2002-03-12 Thread Dom Lachowicz
On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 19:28, Francisco Bornéo wrote: Olá, I checked the box auto save current file each..., and sometimes Abiword saves a file .bak in its home folder and sometimes in desktop. Is it possible to choose a folder or create one to this feature? And if it's possible, how to

Re: Perplexing problems

2002-03-12 Thread Dom Lachowicz
On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 20:38, Keith Bates wrote: I've just got Abiword 0.99 going but it has some distressing problems: 1. It won't maintain my preferences when I quit This is wierd. What sorts of preferences did you change that AbiWord isn't saving? 2. It won't keep the plug-ins when i

Re: Auto save

2002-03-12 Thread Dom Lachowicz
Dom, it happens before I save the document. Yesterday I saved a document in a subfolder of My documents and the .bak file is saved in Desktop. Sometimes I find .bak files in home folder of Abiword, and they are not a temp file. According to your answer I understand that it is not

Re: Auto save

2002-03-12 Thread Dom Lachowicz
On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 11:36, Virgil Arrington Jr. wrote: Dom wrote: In my opinion, the folder to save bacup files to should not be configurable. I'm not sure this makes sense to me. Shouldn't a user be able to choose where to keep backup files, say in folder called Backups?

Re: Capitalize first letter of sentence

2002-03-05 Thread Dom Lachowicz
Hi Francisco, On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 17:33, Francisco Bornéo wrote: At 16:37 4/3/2002 -0500, you wrote: Olá Dom, Not everyone is a starving artist who does everything for the most pure and noble of intentions, if such things really do exist. I did not say that and I did not expect it

Re: Never mind capitalize first letter - where's my toolbar (anddictionary)?

2002-03-05 Thread Dom Lachowicz
On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 07:08, John Mellor wrote: I have to say that right now my missing standard toolbar is far more irritating than having to press shift for a capital See my post from Saturday Can anyone help please? And the gdict post on Sunday PS Thanks to Jared Davis for pointing me to

Re: Capitalize first letter of sentence

2002-03-04 Thread Dom Lachowicz
On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 09:56, F J Franklin wrote: I noticed people are requirind features... what about capitalize first letter of sentence. Is it just me? I really hate this kind of feature. Word does it to me and makes me scream and I have to go searching for the box to check that says

Re: Capitalize first letter of sentence

2002-03-04 Thread Dom Lachowicz
I personally hate that feature, but a lot of people apparently like it. They should be able to install the plug-in, from a nice selection in the installation program and thus have it running all the time. I could ignore it and keep my AbiWord fast and slim. I am convinced that it is these

Re: [Feature Request] : insert link not picture

2002-03-01 Thread Dom Lachowicz
Hi, It isn't possible to do this in AbiWord Dom On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 09:15, davbos wrote: Hello, Please excuse my bad english :-) I just have a look in Abiword, version 0992, and did not find if it is possible not to insert directly a picture in the document, but to insert only a

Re: 0.99.2 still having problems with importing xhtml?

2002-02-26 Thread Dom Lachowicz
On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 10:17, Wannes Soenen wrote: I'm using 0.99.2 and still cannot import xhtml-documents. Abiword still says its a 'bogus ducument'. I thought this was fixed earlyer but it seems its not. The document can be found at http://users.pandora.be/wannes.soenen/sociaal_recht.html

Re: AbiWord 0.99.2 released.

2002-02-26 Thread Dom Lachowicz
Looks like an iconv problem. Make sure that you're building against the libiconv from our CVS and NOT NOT NOT Solaris' builtin iconv. Dom On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 10:20, Peter C. Tribble wrote: The AbiWord team is pleased announce the immediate availability of AbiWord 0.99.2, our second beta

Re: 0.99.2 still having problems with importing xhtml?

2002-02-26 Thread Dom Lachowicz
On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 10:28, Jesper Skov wrote: On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 16:17, Wannes Soenen wrote: I'm using 0.99.2 and still cannot import xhtml-documents. Abiword still says its a 'bogus ducument'. I thought this was fixed earlyer but it seems its not. The document can be found at

Re: Help please - how to attach an abw file to a bug report?

2002-02-26 Thread Dom Lachowicz
See the attached picture Dom On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 16:43, John Selby wrote: Hi folks, I've used bugzilla before to file and check bug reports but this time I need to send an Abiword document with the bug report to allow the bug to be checked. I can't see in bugzilla any way of attaching

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