Re: [Sheflug] Abiword

[José Luis Gómez Dans <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>]

On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 02:54:55PM +0100, Richard wrote:
> I've finally been able to get the Abiword download page to let me have
> the Abiword 0.7.10 rpm.

	Whenever they get equations in!!!!!!

> The early versions didn't really do much for me so I didn't bother
> with them too much.  Looks as though it'll work nicely on a 100MHz
> laptop.  There are two things I'd like to ask, if anyone can answer ??

	Specially considering that it's compiled with the full debugging
stuff (well, the rpm might not be). 

> * 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 ?

	Abiword file format is (if my memory serves) a version of XML
(or it somehow uses an XML approach). I don't think saving as Word works
as of now. However, you can save it as RTF, which should be nicely
loadable into word.

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

	Abiword seems to have its own fonts in /usr/share/abiword/fonts.
However, note that abiword is work in progress, and all this can change
without prior warning. I think you can have your own fonts directory
under ~, though.

	Regards,
	José
-- 
José L Gómez Dans			PhD student
					Radar & Communications Group
					Department of Electronic Engineering
					University of Sheffield UK
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