Re: [Sheflug] Abiword

[Harvey Kelly <nospam [at] kelly.uklinux.net>]

Hello Richard,

On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Richard wrote:

 
> I've finally been able to get the Abiword download page to let me have
> the Abiword 0.7.10 rpm.
> 
> http://www.abisource.com/dl_linux_intel
> 
> and very nice it is too :-)  

Extremely nice isn't it?  I've been using it for a few days now.  

> * The site claims that Abiword can save in MS Word 97 format.  How do
> I do that ?  If I do   "save as"  it comes up with "automatically
> detected "  is this the right one ?

No, that gives it a .abw suffix, I think.  But, so far... it reads .doc
files better than either WordPerfect or StarOffice, if that's any use. 

> * How about adding more fonts ?  Do I need to get the senior
> programmer at the Bell labs to do this for me ? 

Yeah, I wanted to ask that as well.  Is it like StarOffice, i.e. it uses
it's own?

Sorry I can't help more, but I will say that I've been using it pretty
non-stop for a few days now, and I am VERY impressed.

Harvey




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