From: Hal Levison (hal@gort.boulder.swri.edu)
Date: Tue Dec 17 2002 - 02:13:30 EST
Hi everyone:
I am sorry to send this again. However, I sent it a couple of weeks
ago when there was not much activity on the list and got no replies.
In addition, I am just about to start a large grant proposal which is
going to be written in word. So, I would like to get abi-word to
work. Thanks!
>I just found out about abiword and I think it is a great idea. I
>usually use emacs and TeX, but have found that I need to work on doc
>files more and more. What a pain. However abiword looks like a great
>way to do this.
>
>However, I have two problems:
>
>1) It crashes a lot. Once every 5 minutes. I know that this does not
> tell you a lot, but it makes the code alost unusable. I am running
> Red Hat 7.1, if that helps. The problems seem to be reproducible.
> For example, if I start a number list and change the style to
> `upper case list', the program crashes. The error message is:
>
> /usr/bin/abiword: line 67: 1426 Aborted
> $ABISUITE_LIBEXEC/AbiWord_d "$@"
>
>2) It will not start at all in my high resolution mode. I use my
> laptop in two resolution modes: 1400x1050 and 1024x768. Abiword
> works fine in the low resolution mode, but in high resolution I
> get a window that opens and says:
>
> Abiword could not lead that following font or fontset from the X
> Window System display server:
> [-*-Times New Roman-regular-r-*-*-*-0-*-*-*-*-*-*]
>
>Thanks for any help you can give me!
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