re: sucks CPU when opening unknown file format
It looks a lot like http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=10187
(I'm rather pleased this part had already been reported because I'm
loathe to create new bug tracking system accounts - I'm on enough of
them already...). I'll retitle and reword
I think there is a bug upstream for that. If not, please file one.
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With that part tracked down I guess we are left with whether abiword
should cope better with binary files being parsed as text... Since it
can't actually display a binary file that contains text perhaps it would
be better if it popped up a warning when such files were opened?
OpenOffice Writer act
Hmm after perusing that file some more I found postscript and pdf appear
to be misclassified.
I think you can just about make the case for RTF being a subtype of
text/plain given that you read it when you strip away the markup in a
text viewer like vi. However binary formats like application/pdf a
And lo, after plenty of searching I have turned up
inside
/usr/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml
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> But why is PDF assigned to AbiWord?
This is strange. I poked about in /usr/share/applications and the
abiword.desktop doesn't list pdf. Looking at Open With again also shows
gvim and gedit in the list of programs PDFs can be opened with too.
There is something that all three share in common: in
Perhaps this "feature" should be disabled until it works correctly,
then. Because right now, its abysmal.
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Don't expect miracles for PDF import.
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** Changed in: abiword (Ubuntu)
Status: Unconfirmed => Confirmed
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I can confirm this bug, and abiword-plugins renders PDFs _horribly_ (at
least on AMD64).
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then AbiWord try to open the PDF as text file which is bad. But why is
PDF assigned to AbiWord?
install abiword-plugins as a work around.
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Oops, almost overlooked this.
Hubert:
No I don't have abiword-plugins installed.
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looks like a bug.
Do you have the abiword-plugins installed?
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