Re: Default file format

Bob wrote:
>> At 07:21 AM 3/12/2008, Dick Dery wrote:
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>> Try the procedure described here:
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>> http://www.abisource.com/wiki/WinFaqAlwaysSaveAsWord
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> Dick,
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> As I was writing this reply to you, AbiWord crashed.
> Hmmm, that hasn't happened to me before with other
> word processors. I guess I'm supposed to save the
> file as I'm writing it. I see the asterisk appears
> before the letter's title when it hasn't been saved.
> Now, if I can just remember what I wrote.
>
> Your trick of modifying AbiWord's configuration file
> worked like a charm. Thank you very much.
>
> I may decide to save files in the native AbiWord
> format after all. As I was searching to find out what
> version that AbiWord saves DOC files in (Word 6.0,
> Word 95, or Word 97/2000/XP), I realized that all the
> major word processors use their own file formats.
> Also, I ran across this interesting article on why you
> shouldn't use the doc format:
> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
>
> Now AbiWord just crashed again. Fortunately I had
> just saved this. Is this crashing common? I'm losing
> track of the things I wanted to say.
>
> Now AbiWord crashed a third time when I wasn't even
> typing. Ollydbg (a debugger) gave me an error
> message, but I lost it before getting back to this
> letter. I had Open Office open in another window when
> I was typing this on AbiWord, in case that had
> anything to do with the crashes. I use Windows XP on
> a Pentium 4 with 512 MB of memory, and I'm using
> AbiWord 2.4.6.
>
> I had a couple other points to make, but I've
> forgotten them now. Thanks again for the information
> on how to modify the configuration file.
>
> Bob
>
That crashing isn't common. In cases such as this, I tend to suspect
either a) copying and pasting from weird things (Firefox used to cause
problems as a source for copy/paste, though I think that's fixed) or b)
printer drivers, if we rule out spyware/viruses (very common) and
hardware problems (less so, but still surprisingly). Keep your computer
clean, and update your printer driver to the most recent, perhaps
installing PrimoPDF as your default printer. (For technical reasons,
Windows programs that do any sort of page layout depend heavily on the
default printer, and for some reason some printer drivers just don't
like AbiWord very much - it tends to be easiest to just work around this
by installing a free PDF printer as the default.)

If you can narrow down the sources of your crash (to an action, series
of actions, or document) please file a bug at
http://bugzilla.abisource.com/ after searching for duplicates.

Ryan

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