Re: abisuite

Eric W. Sink (eric@postman.abisource.com)
Tue, 4 May 1999 15:36:39 -0500


> I reecently downloaded abisuite/abiword. I was able to compile
> it under Redhat 5.2 with gtk1.2.

Good.

> There were lots of warnoings,
> but it compiled in full,

Yep -- when we switched our default recently to non-debug builds,
we ended up with a LOT more compiler warnings. We'll be taking care
of these.

> and was able to convert a word document
> to text and html. However the pictures were lost.

Our word importer right now is pretty weak. We're in the process of
replacing it. You're correct, it doesn't do pictures.

> I also noticed
> that there is no way of adding pictures into abiword, or the
> functionality is not there.

Look under the Insert menu to insert an image. Right now, the
image must be in PNG format.

> I have not yet looked at the source
> code, but am wondering, does the gtk text widget support images?

I don't know if it does or not, but I don't think so.

> Are you using the gtk text widget or are you using gtk canvas
> widget?

Neither one. AbiWord is written using a very cross-platform design.
By simply using a plain window into which we do all of our own
drawing, we get a drawing model which is basically identical on
all our supported platforms.

-- 
Eric W. Sink, Software Craftsman
eric@abisource.com


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