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Jeffrey Needle | 29 Jan 10:03
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Question about paths


Using abiword 2.8.6 on a Linux Mint system.

I want to change the default directory for saving documents to
Documents, where you'd think it would be.  Instead, it defaults to my
Home directory.

Is there a way I can change this default?

Thanks.

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Andrew - | 21 Jan 20:48
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The formatting toolbar is too long, the drop down menu has items like
Bullet Symbols_text_text_text_text_text_text_text which pushes the
rest of the buttons (bold, italic, etc) out of sight. How can I make
the menu normal size again? Btw I am using Lubuntu 11.04 with Abiword
2.8.6 thank you
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Roger | 7 Jan 21:34
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ODT File Segfault


I get the following when trying to open a ODT file in abiword-2.8.6-r1:

[Thread 0xb76a3b70 (LWP 7041) exited]

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
_______________________________________________________________________________
     eax:4A0393A0 ebx:4A037FF4  ecx:00000013  edx:00000012     eflags:00210282
     esi:4A0393A0 edi:00000012  esp:BF7FFFC8  ebp:BF800038     eip:49F43B09
     cs:0073  ds:007B  es:007B  fs:0000  gs:0033  ss:007B    o d I t S z a p c 
[007B:BF7FFFC8]---------------------------------------------------------[stack]
BF7FFFF8 : Error while running hook_stop:
Cannot access memory at address 0xbf7ffff8
0x49f43b09 in _int_malloc () from /lib/libc.so.6
gdb> bt
#0  0x49f43b09 in _int_malloc () from /lib/libc.so.6
#1  0x49f4671c in malloc () from /lib/libc.so.6
#2  0x4a0e75f8 in g_try_malloc () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
Backtrace stopped: Not enough registers or memory available to unwind further
gdb> 

strace seems to show it's segfaulting in something outside of abiword:

clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {2171, 676328355}) = 0
poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}, {fd=3, events=POLLIN}], 2, 0) = 1 ([{fd=3, revents=POLLIN}])
clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {2171, 676634283}) = 0
poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}, {fd=3, events=POLLIN}], 2, 0) = 1 ([{fd=3, revents=POLLIN}])
brk(0x91b7000)                          = 0x91b7000
brk(0x91d8000)                          = 0x91d8000
brk(0x91f9000)                          = 0x91f9000
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jim | 3 Jan 17:45
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Insert/Overwrite


I think this got a lot of discussion a few years ago.  I 
personally find overwrite helpful or irritating as heck depending 
on what I'm doing.  Do I correctly recall suggestions for a 
switch that disables it?
Jim

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Richard L. Dery | 1 Jan 22:56
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Insert/Overwrite mode


I'm preparing an introductory class on word processing and have a couple 
of questions.

All of the materials I've been using to prepare for the class mention 
that overwrite mode is rarely used, and is typically entered by 
accidentaly pressing the Insert key.

Here are the questions:

What good is overwrite mode?

Why is it included in word processing software?

Happy New Year, everyone!
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Scott Sterrantino | 23 Nov 16:15
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Embedded image size question


I am using the abiword command line on a web server to convert word docs to
email messages in html format.  I need to embed pictures and have used that
command line option.  It works well, but it appears to only work on very
small images (maybe 30k).  Is this a hard limitation, or is there a command
line option I can add to allow for larger images?  

I am using the command line on a CentOS 5.2/Apache web server. Thanks. 

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Thomas Gries | 15 Nov 23:19
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Abiword 2.8.6 and problem or bug: Abiword conversion from pdf to text fails on several installation


(cross-posted to abiword-user and abiword-dev-request)

Recently I filed http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13167 .
It has relevance to a problem with Etherpad-Lite
https://github.com/Pita/etherpad-lite/issues/194
which I try to solve - I am working with the Etherpad-Lite developers.

In this mail I only refer to Abiword command line use,
and only to Abiwords convert functions.

I have three installation on different servers,
but two of the three installations have the

Problem:
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Abiword does _not_ correctly convert PDF to TEXT:
it shows the PDF file's bytes instead.

abiword --plugin=AbiCommand
Abiword>convert x.pdf x.txt txt

x.txt shows the PDF file in bytes, instead the extracted text.

This happens on two of three of my installation running SLES-11 and OpenSuse
11.3 in a headless server environment (virtual machines, hosted servers).

The version on OpenSuse 11.4 is working correctly and converts the text
from the PDF file on the command line as expected.
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350bmonte | 19 Oct 01:10

Return address labels


Can you print return address labels using AbiWord?

I have Avery 8195 Return Address Labels.

Thank you.
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Roger | 18 Oct 01:40
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> On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 01:28:48PM +0200, Benjamin Oppermann wrote:
>> I'm not sure.  I've never had this problem.  What distribution are you using?
>> (As most font problems are distribution related from my experience.)  Haven't
>> seen anybody else follow-up on this either.  Have you tried your distributions
>> mailing list (or support channel) as this seems more font related then Abiword
>> at this point?
>>
>> --
>> Roger
>> http://rogerx.freeshell.org/
>>
>
>
>Can't say yet we have assured it's font related, I guess?
>Like I said, I run Bodhi Linux 1.2, which is Ubuntu based, with
>3.0.0-9 Linux kernel.
>Unfortunately, no one over there (their forums and IRC channel) seems
>to know either.

I would keep pandering the Bodhi packagers as nobody at the Abiword end here is 
responding.  You can also try uninstalling (all) fonts and reinstalling 
specific fonts to try finding the problem.  I use bitstream fonts here.

media-fonts/font-bitstream-100dpi
media-fonts/font-bitstream-type1

>Do different versions of Abiword come with different fonts?
>Thanks again, Ben
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Benjamin Oppermann | 15 Oct 22:38
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Re: Abiword prints weird jumble of letters


2011/10/15 Benjamin Oppermann <bennsn <at> gmail.com>:
> I just found that my problem fits the desription of bug #11872:
> http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=11872
>
> I get the same behavior with various other fonts, just Times New Roman sets
> and prints alright.
> Ben
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Benjamin Oppermann | 15 Oct 22:24
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Abiword prints weird jumble of letters


Hello,
Forgive me if I'm maybe submitting this question a second time, but I
may have sent it before my subscription was confirmed the first time,
and I haven't received an answer since, so I'm trying once more:

 Has anyone else been having problems printing documents from Abiword?
 I tried it the first time on Bodhi Linux: both the print preview and
 the actual printout are just a weird jumble of letters dispersed
 across the page, while in editing view everything looked completely
 normal. I saved the document to different locations and tried a few
 times until eventually I got a fine printout, but I can't reproduce
 what caused the problem. Any ideas?

Thanks, Ben
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