Re: Newbie questions

On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 22:27 -0400, Barry Wong wrote:

>
> I have read in more than one place that the program will import Word
> files (which makes a lot of sense), but I must be doing something
> wrong. Can anyone help?

I can't help, but I don't think it is something wrong that you are
doing.
It should *just work* (does on Linux, mostly - some weird word files
aren't imported correctly but I really have to try hard to find one now
- stuff people send me just tends to work)

Might I suggest you try the new 2.4.0?
Does it have an OS X build yet?

>
> FWIW, I seem to be able to save in Word format, and those files open
> fine with Word.

When AbiWord saves to word format, what it actually is doing (unless
they have changed it) is creating an rtf file and just putting a .doc
extension on it.

>
> Finally, I did download AbiWord 2.4, but found it somewhat unstable
> on the Mac, so I switched back to 2.2.10. Has anyone else found this
> to be the case?

Ah.
Hopefully 2.4 will get better on OS X.

> --
> No eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor heart conceived, all that God has
> prepared for those who love Him. 1 Corinthians 2:9

:)

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Received on Wed Oct 5 08:11:33 2005