Re: Abiword-Gnome, save as PDF, does not support italics?

2005-11-06 Thread Andy Gower
> From: Patrick Wiseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Do italics print properly? If so, you might try installing cups-pdf and the= > n > "print" to a PDF file. Thanks for the response Patrick. I don't have a printer installed on this machine yet, so I can't check and see if it prints properly. I install

Re: Abiword-Gnome, save as PDF, does not support italics?

2005-11-06 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
On 2005-11-06 21:34:02, Felix C. Stegerman wrote: > On 2005-11-06 12:01:43, Andy Gower wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > I am using abiword-gnome 2.4.1-2 on Debian Testing and am trying to > > save a ABW document as a PDF file. The ABW document has items in > > italicized font. For some reason when I

Re: Abiword-Gnome, save as PDF, does not support italics?

2005-11-06 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 11/6/05, Andy Gower <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi there,I am using abiword-gnome 2.4.1-2 on Debian Testing and am trying tosave a ABW document as a PDF file.  The ABW document has items initalicized font.  For some reason when I view the PDF file, the items are not in italics anymore.  Is there

Re: Abiword-Gnome, save as PDF, does not support italics?

2005-11-06 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
On 2005-11-06 12:01:43, Andy Gower wrote: > Hi there, > > I am using abiword-gnome 2.4.1-2 on Debian Testing and am trying to > save a ABW document as a PDF file. The ABW document has items in > italicized font. For some reason when I view the PDF file, the items > are not in italics anymore. I

Re: Abiword in testing unusable

2003-11-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 10:38:22PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > I've been waiting for Abiword to migrate to testing for a long time. > The fact that it hasn't is blocking seemingly not related upgrades, > like pan. > > Does anyone have any additional info on when or if this will be fixed? $ grep

Re: Abiword in testing unusable

2003-11-07 Thread Ross Boylan
I've been waiting for Abiword to migrate to testing for a long time. The fact that it hasn't is blocking seemingly not related upgrades, like pan. Does anyone have any additional info on when or if this will be fixed? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: Abiword in testing unusable

2003-11-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 08:25:05PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 07:15:44PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > $ apt-cache policy abiword > > abiword: > > Installed: (none) > > Candidate: 2.0.0+cvs.2003.09.25-1.1 > > Version Table: > > 2.0.0+cvs.2003.09.25-1.1 0 > >

Re: Abiword in testing unusable

2003-11-06 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 08:32:51PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 20:25, Carl Fink wrote: > > Same thing as you, as I quoted above. So what's apt-get trying to > > install? > > Dunno. Show us the whole command + all messages. Okay, here's what happens with abiword proper:

Re: Abiword in testing unusable

2003-11-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 20:25, Carl Fink wrote: > On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 08:19:16PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 19:25, Carl Fink wrote: > > > > > $ apt-cache policy abiword > > > > abiword: > > > > Installed: (none) > > > > Candidate: 2.0.0+cvs.2003.09.25-1.1 > > > > V

Re: Abiword in testing unusable

2003-11-06 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 08:19:16PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 19:25, Carl Fink wrote: > > > $ apt-cache policy abiword > > > abiword: > > > Installed: (none) > > > Candidate: 2.0.0+cvs.2003.09.25-1.1 > > > Version Table: > > > 2.0.0+cvs.2003.09.25-1.1 0 > > >

Re: Abiword in testing unusable

2003-11-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 19:25, Carl Fink wrote: > On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 07:15:44PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > Hmmm. Have you done an 'apt-get update' lately? > > This afternoon. > > > $ apt-cache policy abiword > > abiword: > > Installed: (none) > > Candidate: 2.0.0+cvs.2003.09.25-1.1

Re: Abiword in testing unusable

2003-11-06 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 07:15:44PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > Hmmm. Have you done an 'apt-get update' lately? This afternoon. > $ apt-cache policy abiword > abiword: > Installed: (none) > Candidate: 2.0.0+cvs.2003.09.25-1.1 > Version Table: > 2.0.0+cvs.2003.09.25-1.1 0 > 50

Re: Abiword in testing unusable

2003-11-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 18:36, Carl Fink wrote: > It's impossible to install either abiword or abiword-GTK in the current > Testing. Abiword proper depends on > > libperl5.6 (>= 5.6.1-8.3) but 5.6.1-8.2 is to be installed > > and abiword-GTK depends on > > libpspell4 (>= 0.12.2-5) b

Re: Abiword

2003-10-02 Thread Oki DZ
I'd like to add something. After looking into the ps files, it seems that the print to file feature doesn't embed the fonts into the output; even if the embed font check box was checked. Oki -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAI

Re: Abiword dependency problem in testing?

2003-06-30 Thread Jakob Sandholm
On man, 2003-06-30 at 00:22, Greg Madden wrote: > On Friday 27 June 2003 03:38 am, Jakob Sandholm wrote: > > Hello > > > > Before submitting a bug report (I've never done that before), I want to > > know if I am doing something wrong here. > > > > If this should be reported as a bug, what package s

Re: Abiword dependency problem in testing?

2003-06-30 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 27 June 2003 03:38 am, Jakob Sandholm wrote: > Hello > > Before submitting a bug report (I've never done that before), I want to > know if I am doing something wrong here. > > If this should be reported as a bug, what package should then get

Re: Abiword dependency problem in testing?

2003-06-29 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 13:38:48 +0200, Jakob Sandholm wrote: > If this should be reported as a bug, what package should then get the > report? Not really AFAIU... from time to time packages will enter testing in the wrong order. In this case, you really need to run apt-get update every day

Re: abiword

2003-02-09 Thread Andreas J Guelzow
Rob Weir wrote: On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 05:43:28PM +, florin gheorghiu wrote: Hi, Why I don't can install abiword in sid ? When I try by the synaptic nothing happen. My repositories are http://debian.yorku.ca/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/ uns

Re: abiword

2003-02-09 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 05:43:28PM +, florin gheorghiu wrote: > > Hi, > Why I don't can install abiword in sid ? > When I try by the synaptic nothing happen. > My repositories are http://debian.yorku.ca/debian/ unstable main non-free > contrib > http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/ unstable

Re: abiword

2003-02-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 07:34:49AM -0500, Debian User wrote: > Why I don't can install abiword in sid ? See its bug list. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAI

Re: Abiword ... am I being dense ???

2003-01-09 Thread David Teague
On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Tom Allison wrote: > Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2003 21:34:16 -0500 > From: Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: Debian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Abiword ... am I being dense ??? > Resent-Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 20:4

Re: Abiword ... am I being dense ???

2003-01-07 Thread Tom Allison
Dave Selby wrote: I have dselected abiword, downloaded the source for abiword 1.0.3 and compiled it, AOK and it works a treat ... The spelling is american and I need british ... The abiword FAQ refers me to .. http://fmg-www.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/ispell-winnt.html Which I only half understand. I en

Re: Abiword spellcheck problem

2002-11-23 Thread Brian Nelson
Lars Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am having a problem getting spellcheck to work in Abiword. Spellcheck > works in other applications, but doen not seem to be configurable within > abiword. Does anyone know a solution to this? I'm running sid and > abiword 1.0.2. My spellchecker is ispel

RE Abiword - SOLVED

2002-06-27 Thread Larry Smith
With some very helpful suggestions I was able to hunt down the necessary libraries to successfully compile Abiword. Thanks to all who made suggestions. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com

Re: abiword question

2002-06-27 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Larry" == Larry Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Larry> I've downloaded the 1.0.6 source gzip and tried to compile it. Larry> The compile effort dies because it cannot find something called Larry> glib-config. You'll need libglib1.2-dev (or something like that -- I think Potato com

Re: Abiword

2002-06-02 Thread Dale Hair
> Reading the hint, it seems to indicate all that's needed are the > two files (fonts.dir and fonts.scale) be in /usr/share/Abisuite/fonts > and it should fly. They are already in place. > > But Abi complains that it can't add its fonts to the X fontpath. Which > is strange, because I'd expect X

Re: Abiword font problem. SOLVED!

2002-05-02 Thread Peter De Wachter
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 08:58:25AM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 08:18:58AM +0100, Peter Whysall wrote: > > On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 07:22, Lars Jensen wrote: > > > The problem seemed to be that xfs, the X fonts server, was installed. xfs > > > apparently isn't needed when

Re: Abiword font problem. SOLVED!

2002-05-02 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 08:18:58AM +0100, Peter Whysall wrote: > On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 07:22, Lars Jensen wrote: > > The problem seemed to be that xfs, the X fonts server, was installed. xfs > > apparently isn't needed when running XFree4?! > > That's true. If you load the freetype and type1 mod

Re: Abiword font problem. SOLVED!

2002-05-02 Thread Peter Whysall
On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 07:22, Lars Jensen wrote: > The problem seemed to be that xfs, the X fonts server, was installed. xfs > apparently isn't needed when running XFree4?! That's true. If you load the freetype and type1 modules, and have the appropriate FontPath entries in XF86Config-4, you can

Re: Abiword font problem. SOLVED!

2002-05-02 Thread Lars Jensen
The problem seemed to be that xfs, the X fonts server, was installed. xfs apparently isn't needed when running XFree4?! Thanks for to anyone that replied. Lars. On Wed, 1 May 2002, Mike Alonzo wrote: Lars Jensen wrote this message last Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 02:17:53PM -0700: > Abiword crashes

Re: Abiword font problem

2002-05-01 Thread Mike Alonzo
Lars Jensen wrote this message last Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 02:17:53PM -0700: > Abiword crashes due to a font problem whenever I start it up. It > complains that it is unable to add to the font path. I don't understand > this because I have type 1 fonts, and they are loaded in my > XF86Config-4. > >

Re: Abiword font problem

2002-04-30 Thread Dale Hair
I had this problem and I had '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/' in the Files section XF86Config-4, but to get it to work I had to add '/usr/share/fonts/type1/'. Also if I added it to the beginning of the Files section most of my desktop fonts looked ugly, putting it at the end fixed that. On Tue

Re: Abiword hangs. Have somebody else experienced this?

2002-03-20 Thread Preben Randhol
Link M Dupont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 20/03/2002 (18:39) : > Are you running the CVS version of abiword? I know that unstable has a > cvs version, but i'm not sure about testing. The best work around i've > found is to either manually install abiword 0.9.4 which is a stable > release, or use s

Re: Abiword hangs. Have somebody else experienced this?

2002-03-20 Thread Jim Harritt
On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 11:22, Preben Randhol wrote: > The abiword hangs after I press space and the aspell spellchecker is > invoked. However this only happens on my laptop. On my dekstop it works. > They have the same debian Testing with some unstable package installed. > I'm seeing the same on my

Re: Abiword and TrueType

2002-01-15 Thread christophe barbé
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 03:53:59PM +, Ross Burton wrote: > On Tue, 2002-01-15 at 13:51, christophe barbé wrote: > > > > I try to use TrueType fonts in Abiword but fail miserably. > > I installed the microsoft fonts and configured X to use it (without any > > font server) and it seems to be OK.

Re: Abiword and TrueType

2002-01-15 Thread Ross Burton
On Tue, 2002-01-15 at 13:51, christophe barbé wrote: > > I try to use TrueType fonts in Abiword but fail miserably. > I installed the microsoft fonts and configured X to use it (without any > font server) and it seems to be OK. > > AbiWord need also to see the font's files in its directory >

Re: abiword coughs on libexpat.so.0

2001-11-15 Thread elawson
- Original Message - From: csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian User Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 9:52 PM Subject: Re: abiword coughs on libexpat.so.0 > Sounds like he needs to upgrade abiword ;-) Self-built (from the > Debian source) 0.9.4.1 here. The feature I lik

Re: abiword coughs on libexpat.so.0

2001-11-15 Thread csj
On Thursday 15 November 2001 04:40, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 07:46:08PM +, joe golden wrote: > > I recently upgraded kernels to 2.2.19. Abiword (0.7.13-0.3) was > > working before the upgrade. Now starting abiword in an xterm gives > > the following: /usr/bin/AbiWord_d: e

Re: abiword coughs on libexpat.so.0

2001-11-14 Thread DvB
DvB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > That what I've got installed and I still got that error. scratch that, libexpat must've upgraded itself after I made the symlink... sorry about the misinformation :-) (read all of the bug for the complete, acurate story).

Re: abiword coughs on libexpat.so.0

2001-11-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 02:47:01PM -0600, DvB wrote: > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 07:46:08PM +, joe golden wrote: > > > I recently upgraded kernels to 2.2.19. Abiword (0.7.13-0.3) was > > > working before the upgrade. Now starting abiword in an xterm

Re: abiword coughs on libexpat.so.0

2001-11-14 Thread DvB
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 07:46:08PM +, joe golden wrote: > > I recently upgraded kernels to 2.2.19. Abiword (0.7.13-0.3) was working > > before the upgrade. Now starting abiword in an xterm gives the following: > > /usr/bin/AbiWord_d: error while lo

Re: abiword coughs on libexpat.so.0

2001-11-14 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake joe golden: > I recently upgraded kernels to 2.2.19. Abiword (0.7.13-0.3) was working > before the upgrade. Now starting abiword in an xterm gives the following: > /usr/bin/AbiWord_d: error while loading shared libraries: libexpat.so.0: > cannot open shared object file: No such file

Re: abiword coughs on libexpat.so.0

2001-11-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 07:46:08PM +, joe golden wrote: > I recently upgraded kernels to 2.2.19. Abiword (0.7.13-0.3) was working > before the upgrade. Now starting abiword in an xterm gives the following: > /usr/bin/AbiWord_d: error while loading shared libraries: libexpat.so.0: > cannot o

Re: abiword font problems

2001-11-11 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Hereward Cooper: > [please cc: me as i'm off list] > > Hi there, > > What's up with abiword? Its complaining that "abiword could not load the > following font or fontset from the X window system display server: > [-*-Times New Roman-regular-r-*-*-*-0-*-*-*-*-*-*]. > I had this problem

Re: abiword unstable in testing??

2001-09-18 Thread David Purton
On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, joe golden wrote: > Is anyone else seeing abiword unstable (version 0.9.0-0.1) cutting off > letters? > > Jeez folks, I'm a debian supporter, but if debian hopes to make inroads on > the desktop it needs a *solid* word processor. Doesn't have to be real > fancy, but it ca

Re: abiword unstable in testing??

2001-09-17 Thread Alan Shutko
"joe golden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jeez folks, I'm a debian supporter, but if debian hopes to make > inroads on the desktop it needs a *solid* word processor. Doesn't > have to be real fancy, but it can't half eat letters. Shouldn't you be addressing this to abiword developers? FWIW, I

Re: abiword unstable in testing??

2001-09-17 Thread joe golden
Is anyone else seeing abiword unstable (version 0.9.0-0.1) cutting off letters? Jeez folks, I'm a debian supporter, but if debian hopes to make inroads on the desktop it needs a *solid* word processor. Doesn't have to be real fancy, but it can't half eat letters. Thanks for all advice from

Re: abiword unstable in testing??

2001-09-16 Thread csj
On Sat, 2001-09-15 at 12:30, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 06:28:42PM +, joe golden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Has anyone tried running the debian unstable version of abiword on the > > testing branch. I know this is not recommended, but I need no > > glitches in outp

Re: abiword unstable in testing??

2001-09-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 06:28:42PM +, joe golden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Has anyone tried running the debian unstable version of abiword on the > testing branch. I know this is not recommended, but I need no > glitches in output. We have a secretary very used to wysiwyg word > processors

Re: Abiword font problem

2001-08-20 Thread csj
On 19 Aug 2001 13:35:55 -0400, Nathan Weston wrote: > I am running debian unstable, and can't seem to get abiword to work. It > complains that it can't find it's fonts -- specifically, Times New Roman. I > checked the shell script that runs abiword, and it adds the abiword font > directory to th

Re: Abiword font problem

2001-08-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 01:35:55PM -0400, Nathan Weston ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I am running debian unstable, and can't seem to get abiword to work. It > complains that it can't find it's fonts -- specifically, Times New Roman. I > checked the shell script that runs abiword, and it adds the

Re: abiword: can't load fontset

2001-08-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 03:11:50PM -0500, DvB ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I can't seem to get abiword to work on one of my machines, it always > gives me a dialog about not being able to find the Times New Roman > fontset and then exits. Even after upgrading to the version in unstable, > I still g

Re: abiword

2001-08-06 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 12:38:11AM +0530, harshu wrote: > Hi, > > > try installing the xfonts-75dpi package as well. Some > > packages look for 75dpi fonts toomaybe that's > > what's causing the problemin either case both > >thanks for the suggestion. will check it out. below a

Re: abiword

2001-08-06 Thread harshu
Hi, > try installing the xfonts-75dpi package as well. Some > packages look for 75dpi fonts toomaybe that's > what's causing the problemin either case both thanks for the suggestion. will check it out. below are the error messages that i get if i try to run xpdf and similar stuf

Re: abiword

2001-08-06 Thread Jatin Golani
Hi Harsha, I'm relatively new to Linux however I think u should try installing the xfonts-75dpi package as well. Some packages look for 75dpi fonts toomaybe that's what's causing the problemin either case both 100dpi and 75dpi versions of fonts can co-exist on the same machine so no harm

Re: abiword testing on stable system

2001-07-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 06:04:57PM +, joe golden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Anyone running abiword testing version on a stable platform? > > I'd like the better version on the stable platform. Alternative suggestion: download latest (or desired) version from AbiWord, and install it under /

Re: Abiword and xset don't work

2001-07-06 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 06:10:56PM -0500, George Fischer wrote: > > $ xset fp+ /usr/shared/abisuite/fonts > > in a terminal, and I got: > > X Error of failed request: 86 > Major opcode of failed request: 51 (X_SetFontPath) > Serial number of failed request: 9 > Current serial number in

Re: Abiword and truetype fonts solution.

2001-06-10 Thread ha shao
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 04:21:58PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > How to get truetype fonts working under Abiword? > - Copy the truetype fonts > ... > It works for me, even though there will be certain issues, like duplication > of ttfonts on the system. Comments appreciated, especially if t

Re: Abiword and truetype fonts solution.

2001-06-10 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 04:21:58PM +0200, Hans uttered: > from http://hell.hell.pl/baran/tek/linux/debian/ttmkfdir/ as it is not in > unstable), this will create a new fonts.dir file with the truetype fonts ttmkfdir not in unstable? You must have missed something. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache se

Re: Abiword and ttf

2001-05-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, May 20, 2001 at 10:59:46PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 04:45:47PM +0200, Hans wrote: Incidentally, I tried the trick of copying over files from my truetype fonts directory, but found that the fonts were sorted in an arbitrary order. This

Re: Abiword and ttf

2001-05-20 Thread matlads
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 04:45:47PM +0200, Hans wrote: > Could you please explain what aspects of xfs you had to tweak? I have xfs > installed. --Hans http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/FDU/ Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Abiword and ttf

2001-05-20 Thread Hans
Could you please explain what aspects of xfs you had to tweak? I have xfs installed. --Hans At 01:01 PM 5/20/01 +0200, Martin Würtele wrote: >On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 10:04:42AM +0200, Hans wrote: >> Who succeeded in getting Abiword to recognize TrueType fonts? Their FAQ >> says to symlink fonts in

Re: Abiword and ttf

2001-05-20 Thread Martin Würtele
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 10:04:42AM +0200, Hans wrote: > Who succeeded in getting Abiword to recognize TrueType fonts? Their FAQ > says to symlink fonts in /usr/share/fonts/truetype to > /usr/share/abisource/fonts/. I did that but it won't fly. (Using Woody with > Abiword 0.7). --Hans if you add th

Re: Abiword and ttf

2001-05-20 Thread Hans
At 10:28 AM 5/20/01 +0200, Dr. Guenter Bechly wrote: >Hi, > >On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 10:04:42AM +0200, Hans wrote: >> Who succeeded in getting Abiword to recognize TrueType fonts? Their FAQ >> says to symlink fonts in /usr/share/fonts/truetype to >> /usr/share/abisource/fonts/. I did that but it wo

Re: Abiword and ttf

2001-05-20 Thread Dr. Guenter Bechly
Hi, On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 10:04:42AM +0200, Hans wrote: > Who succeeded in getting Abiword to recognize TrueType fonts? Their FAQ > says to symlink fonts in /usr/share/fonts/truetype to > /usr/share/abisource/fonts/. I did that but it won't fly. (Using Woody with > Abiword 0.7). --Hans Better t

Re: abiword

2001-04-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 05:42:49PM -0400, Daniel Katz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Marcelo Chiapparini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > YMMV. Does anyone who uses Abiword on Stable know how well > > > importing works? > > > > Sorry about my ignorance, but what does YMMV mean? > > > > "Your

Re: abiword

2001-04-24 Thread Brian Nelson
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 05:40:07PM -0400, Daniel Freedman wrote: > incomplete and quite buggy). First of all, it is constantly evolving > through versions of Word, and much worse, it is supposedly very > dependent upon the overall environment of windows (font settings, > etc.). Or my favorite: Wo

Re: abiword

2001-04-24 Thread Chris Cyll
Marcelo, Actually, I was just on the Abiword (www.abiword.org) web page and I notice that they provide deb packages for the recently release 0.7.14. I love it when people do that. Not to mention that the packages run on both potato and unstable. So, if you want to run a more recent version th

Re: abiword

2001-04-24 Thread Alan Shutko
Daniel Freedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > From what I know, MS Word Import is so hard mainly because .DOC it > is not a very explicitly defined format Actually, Abiword does very well at it. The major problem comes from documents with things Abiword doesn't support (mostly tables). -- Alan

Re: abiword

2001-04-24 Thread Russell May
Daniel Katz wrote: > > Marcelo Chiapparini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > YMMV. Does anyone who uses Abiword on Stable know how well > > > importing works? > > > > Sorry about my ignorance, but what does YMMV mean? > > > > "Your Mileage May Vary." It is essentially a disclaimer. > > Th

Re: abiword

2001-04-24 Thread Daniel Katz
Marcelo Chiapparini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > YMMV. Does anyone who uses Abiword on Stable know how well > > importing works? > > Sorry about my ignorance, but what does YMMV mean? > "Your Mileage May Vary." It is essentially a disclaimer. This acronym and much other lore can be found

Re: abiword

2001-04-24 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hi Christopher > thanks for your answer > > On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 05:03:05PM -0500, Christopher Cyll wrote: > > Hi Marcelo, > > The Abiword in Unstable reads Word97 just fine (though complicated MS Word > > features will not show up). What ver

Re: abiword

2001-04-24 Thread Kent West
Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > Stable is a bunch of revisions behind on Abiword, so if that's what you run, > > YMMV. Does anyone who uses Abiword on Stable know how well importing works? > > Sorry about my ignorance, but what does YMMV mean? > > Thanks! > Marcelo Your Mileage May Vary = you

Re: abiword

2001-04-24 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi Christopher thanks for your answer On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 05:03:05PM -0500, Christopher Cyll wrote: > Hi Marcelo, > The Abiword in Unstable reads Word97 just fine (though complicated MS Word > features will not show up). What version of Debian are you running? Potato! > Stable is a bunch

Re: abiword

2001-04-24 Thread Christopher Cyll
Hi Marcelo, The Abiword in Unstable reads Word97 just fine (though complicated MS Word features will not show up). What version of Debian are you running? Stable is a bunch of revisions behind on Abiword, so if that's what you run, YMMV. Does anyone who uses Abiword on Stable know how well imp

Re: Question re. AbiWord

2001-03-02 Thread kmself
on Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 11:36:13PM -0800, Ross Boylan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Is there a way to give root (or anyone else) permission so this error > doesn't come up? I login to a non-root account (gdm), but sometimes I > open a terminal as root and want to run a graphical application. I > a

Re: Question re. AbiWord

2001-02-16 Thread Ross Boylan
Oops, still learning to read. I have a related problem, but it's with Gnome. Here's the sequence: 1) login as a regular use via gdm 2) open a terminal and su 3) gtop & Leads to this error on the terminal: GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager: Authentication Rejected, reason : N

Re: Question re. AbiWord

2001-02-16 Thread Andrew Perrin
Sure - check out man xhost. If (like me) you're a totally isolated host you can just do xhost + in a terminal window owned by the user running X; that will allow ANY host, ANYWHERE, to display om your machine. If you're connected to the net you might want to refine your xhost command to allow o

Re: Question re. AbiWord

2001-02-16 Thread Ross Boylan
Is there a way to give root (or anyone else) permission so this error doesn't come up? I login to a non-root account (gdm), but sometimes I open a terminal as root and want to run a graphical application. I always get the error message that kicked this thread off. The error doesn't seem to cause

Re: Question re. AbiWord

2001-02-15 Thread Tyler Braun
Are you trying to run it from a terminal that you're currently root in, while you're using X as a regular user? If so just stop being root and it should be ok. Otherwise, try: export display=:0.0 I *THINK* that will do the trick. On Thu Feb 15/2001 @ 10:02:P -0500, Radhika Sambamurti - 718-622-

Question re. AbiWord

2001-02-15 Thread Radhika Sambamurti - 718-622-8304
Hi, I recently downloaded and installed AbiWord for my Debian Potato 2.2r Linux. The exact error message that I got when i tried to run it was: Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0 If anybody c

Re: abiword - new version?

2000-10-10 Thread David A. Rogers
Check www.abisource.com. That's home for abiword. Looks like the latest version is 0.7.11. dar On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Lindsay Allen wrote: > > I'm sure I read about 4-6 weeks ago that a new version of abiword was > being released. But I can't find it. Anyone know the story? > > Running 0.7.

Re: Abiword 0.7.6-1 segfaults

1999-11-11 Thread James Dietrich
On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 04:37:18PM +, Pedro Sanchez wrote: > I installed the abiword package in Potato, version 0.7.6-1, and I get > the following at the prompt: > > $ abiword > /usr/bin/abiword: line 40: 9194 Segmentation fault $DYNAMIC_BIN $1 > $2 $3 $4 $5 $6 $7 $8 $9 > > The wrapper

Re: Abiword space-bar weirdness

1999-06-09 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've just installed abiword 0.5.5-1 > > It works OK till I use one of the pull-down menus (for example the font > point size menu). Therefater every time I hit the space bar, that menu > appears again! > This is fixed in newer versions, which will

Re: abiword troubles: improperly installed fonts

1999-04-18 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > Running an old AcceleratedX 3.1 > Mostly hamm, with slink and potato stuff mixed in, but dpkg is happy. > > abiword complains about improperly installed fonts. > > I tried the following as per the /usr/doc/abiword/unix_fonts.txt.gz file: > xset fp+ /usr/share/abiw