Wrong page sizes on opening .doc file

2002-02-06 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
I have just installed the abiword-gnome-0.9.6.1-1.i386.rpm and other supporting packages on my RedHat Linux 7.2 box. On opening an MS Word .doc file for viewing and printing (using abiword as an application helper in Netscape), I notice the following: 1. Warning message: Invalid seek 2.

Re: Wrong page sizes on opening .doc file

2002-02-06 Thread Jesper Skov
On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 10:55, R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar wrote: I have just installed the abiword-gnome-0.9.6.1-1.i386.rpm and other supporting packages on my RedHat Linux 7.2 box. Please get the latest 0.99.1 release. Jesper --- To unsubscribe

Re: Wrong page sizes on opening .doc file

2002-02-06 Thread Dom Lachowicz
1. Warning message: Invalid seek Fixed in 0.99 2. Warning message: Could not load the dictionary for the _none language (this probably arises from a login set command that has not assigned an environment variable?) I'll fix this. Text in the -none- language shouldn't be spellchecked 3.

Re: Wrong page sizes on opening .doc file

2002-02-06 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Thank you for your suggestion Dom. I tried it and got this: # rpm -ivh abiword-0.99.1-1.i386.rpm error: failed dependencies: libpng.so.3 is needed by abiword-0.99.1-1 libstdc++.so.4 is needed by abiword-0.99.1-1 I tried installing libpng so: rpm -Uvh

Re: Wrong page sizes on opening .doc file

2002-02-06 Thread Dom Lachowicz
Funny, because this was built on a clean redhat 7.2 machine. In any case, if the binary doesn't work for you and you can't work around RPM's (many) limitations, you can always rebuild from source. Dom On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 09:30, R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar wrote: Thank you for your suggestion

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2002-02-06 Thread Kingly kongo
Hello, Does anyone know were i can get the french and spanish dictionarys for abiword .9.6-1 for the windows version phillip http://greetings.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Greetings - Send your Valentines love online. --- To unsubscribe from this list, send

Re: Wrong page sizes on opening .doc file

2002-02-06 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Dom Lachowicz wrote: Funny, because this was built on a clean redhat 7.2 machine. In any case, if the binary doesn't work for you and you can't work around RPM's (many) limitations, you can always rebuild from source. Dom Where do I get the source for version 0.99? (the RPM was from

Re: Using AbiWord for HTML

2002-02-06 Thread F J Franklin
I want to use AbiWord (version 0.9.6-1) to create and maintain simple HTML web pages (few graphics, no spinning gifs). I've tried some simple tests cases and AbiWord seems to save (save as HTML 4.0) a new .html file OK. IE5 can display the page. However, when I try to open (open All

Some desired additions and comments

2002-02-06 Thread ntholman
Wednesday 2-6-02 Hej - I am using AbiWord 0.9.6.1 for Windows 98. I have some suggestions and comment... Please add right-click capability for Save As/Save. It's quick and one doesn't have to hunt for the menubar above. (Saw this feature in Prolix32 text editor and it is handy.) Please add

Feature for saving files with a default string

2002-02-06 Thread scz
I propose that a little string preference is added so that the advance user can set a default way to save his files for example say in the Menu File I click on Set Save Line an input dialog comes up describing what vars are set to be what and what my current line is with ok and cancel

Re: Wrong page sizes on opening .doc file

2002-02-06 Thread Jesper Skov
On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 16:19, R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar wrote: Dom Lachowicz wrote: Funny, because this was built on a clean redhat 7.2 machine. In any case, if the binary doesn't work for you and you can't work around RPM's (many) limitations, you can always rebuild from source.

Re: Some desired additions and comments

2002-02-06 Thread Jesper Skov
On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 18:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wednesday 2-6-02 Hej - I am using AbiWord 0.9.6.1 for Windows 98. I have some suggestions and comment... Please... Please open Bugs describing each of these requests for enhancements. Thanks, Jesper

Re: Some desired additions and comments

2002-02-06 Thread Martin Sevior
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wednesday 2-6-02 Hej - I am using AbiWord 0.9.6.1 for Windows 98. I have some suggestions and comment... Please add right-click capability for Save As/Save. It's quick and one doesn't have to hunt for the menubar above. (Saw this feature

Re: Some desired additions and comments

2002-02-06 Thread Hubert Figuiere
According to Martin Sevior [EMAIL PROTECTED]: clicking on an icon is too hard? Don't laugh, but I have seen a user that was using a laptop with touch screen (and a specific pen for that) using Word. His behaviour was that he either used the pen to pull down the menu or too click on the icon,