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Bob Hinds | 3 Feb 15:25
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Re: Question about paths


The Save and Save As menu options default location is based on the
current working directory where Abiword is started.  That is, if you
start Abiword in a terminal window with the current directory being
the "Documents" subdirectory, the Save and Save As menu options will
default to that directory instead of the home directory.

Depending on your desktop environment you may be able to change the
working directory for the menu entry that launches Abiword.  If not
then you can create a Bash script to launch Abiword which changes to
the Documents subdirectory and then executes Abiword.  This script can
be launched by changing the menu command for Abiword or by setting up
a shortcut key for it.

On 1/29/12, Jeffrey Needle <jeff.needle <at> gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> Is there a way I can change this default?
>
> Thanks.
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J.M. Maurer | 11 Feb 15:19

AbiSource.com outage


Hi all,

AbiSource.com and related services where unavailable for the last 5
hours due to a power outage in the Twente University datacenters.

All services should be back up now. We're sorry for the inconvenience.

Regards,
  Marc

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Me Myself and I | 1 Mar 08:08
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Questions about command line abilities and rtf conversion.


-I have learned that abiword comes with a number of command line utilities,
 including its ability to activate the internal implementation for
conversion of Microsoft .doc to .rtf (file formats), and vice versa.

-Where can I find some basic instructions and help for activating these
sorts of abilities from the command line?

-Is it possible to access these without using a command line, but an api
(java, in particular)?
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Hub Figuière | 1 Mar 09:08
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Re: Questions about command line abilities and rtf conversion.


On 29/02/12 11:08 PM, Me Myself and I wrote:
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> -I have learned that abiword comes with a number of command line utilities,
>  including its ability to activate the internal implementation for
> conversion of Microsoft .doc to .rtf (file formats), and vice versa.

Abiword does not support writing .doc anyway, so you can't do from rtf
to .doc.

> -Where can I find some basic instructions and help for activating these
> sorts of abilities from the command line?

http://abisource.com/wiki/Command_line_options

> -Is it possible to access these without using a command line, but an api
> (java, in particular)?

no as is, and unlikely from Java.

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Martin Sevior | 1 Mar 12:50
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Re: Questions about command line abilities and rtf conversion.


Actually you can script abiword using the abicommand plugin.

See:

http://www.abisource.com/wiki/AbiCommand

The advantage of this is that you don't need to unload/reload abiword
to do your document processing.

We use it extensively in our

http://abicollab.net

web service.

Cheers

Martin

On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Hub Figuière <hfiguiere <at> teaser.fr> wrote:
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> On 29/02/12 11:08 PM, Me Myself and I wrote:
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>>
>> -I have learned that abiword comes with a number of command line utilities,
>>  including its ability to activate the internal implementation for
>> conversion of Microsoft .doc to .rtf (file formats), and vice versa.
>
> Abiword does not support writing .doc anyway, so you can't do from rtf
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