Re: Abiword doesn't work

From: Pat McMahon (pmm@eircom.net)
Date: Mon Sep 16 2002 - 16:27:36 EDT

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    Hello!

    Can anyone help me?
    On Saturday I spent several hours on a piece of creative fiction. I was very
    pleased with my effort. By Saturday evening I had one of the best short
    stories I have been able to put together in a long time. I saved the
    document as I went along.
    However, at around 9.00pm, just before going to the pub to have a quiet
    celebration over a pint of Guinness I opened the document..........I found
    that
    it only opened as a complete page of question marks.......like this:
    ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
    ?????????

    Is it possible for me to retrieve my work in any way.

    The document was over 1,000 words, and I just will not be able to recreate
    the
    piece from memory..........

    I saved it either to AbiWord (.abw) or to Microsoft Word (.doc) I am not
    sure which, but it was one of these.

    It would be great someone could help me retrieve it. I have tried all the
    usual things, searching files and folders etc.

    Pat McMahon,
    Galway,
    Ireland.

    -----Original Message-----
    From: José Rodrigo Sanjurjo Amado <josesan@udc.es>
    To: abiword-user@abisource.com <abiword-user@abisource.com>
    Date: 16 September 2002 18:37
    Subject: Abiword doesn't work

    > Hi,
    > When I run abiword I obtain this message: "The font metrics file
    >[/usr/share/AbiSuite/fonts//n021003l.pfb.afm] could not be opened for
    >parsing, nor was it possible to retrieve the needed information from the
    >X server; this is a fatal error and AbiWord will terminate". The AbiWord
    >finishes.
    > I have installed abisuite-1.0.1-1.ximian.2, and I have Red Hat 7.0,
    >with XFree86-4.0.1-1. My machine is a PC Pentium III 500 MHz.
    > Could anyone help me? Thanks in advance.
    >
    > José Sanjurjo.
    >
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