Re: psion plugin

sum1_lists@yahoo.com wrote:
> --- s k <kon0809a@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>> Dear Abiword,
>>
>> OS: Win XP SP2
>> Abiword version: 2.4.6
>> Download site: www.abisource.com
>>
>> I had been using Abiword about 1 year ago to view edit and print
>> psion
>> documents from my psion series 5mx. This was via a psion
>> importer/exporter
>> plugin I believe. I have had to reinstall programs on my laptop
>> following a
>> repair and I so I have recently installed the latest version of
>> abiword and
>> the importer/exporter plugins from the download section in your
>> website at
>> http://www.abisource.com/download/. The problem is you don't seem to
>> have
>> the psion importer/exporter in the plugins package any more even
>> thought it
>> is still listed in the plugins matrix at
>>
>>
> http://www.abisource.com/twiki/bin/view/Abiword/PluginMatrix#Import_Export_Filters.
>
>> Please could you tell me where I can download the psion plugin for
>> the
>> latest version of abiword if it still exists.
>>
>> Many thanks and season's greetings.
>>
>>
>
> The plug-in was disabled a while back due to a conflict with another
> plug-in (http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=9420).
> Unfortunately, it hasn't been packaged since that report was filed, and
> I'm not sure when it will be packaged again. If you don't mind using an
> older version of AbiWord, I think 2.2.10 included the Psion plug-in;
> you can download it from http://www.abisource.com/downloads/abiword/2.2.10/Windows/.
>
>
At the very latest, it will be packaged for 2.6.0 in the future, since
the bz2abw plugin is going away. I'm not sure if it will resurface in
2.4 - I will probably upload a binary for those who want to manually
install it with the caveat of that bug for the next release.

Ryan

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