[25981] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 9.3.8: abiword
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Mon Aug 23 13:32:11 2004
Message-Id: <200408231731.i7NHVmJ0006015@dit.mit.edu>
To: kchen@mit.edu
In-reply-to: "[25969] in Athena bugs"
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 13:31:48 -0400
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>
cc: bugs@mit.edu
Errors-To: bugs-bounces@mit.edu
Hi again,
>What were you trying to do?
>Attempting to open the "Revised IS&T Plan for staff review
>(8_2004).doc" file with Abiword.
>
>What's wrong:
>Abiword remains fully responsive, but takes up most CPU cycles, and
>does not open the file. If the file is specified on the command line,
>the display area where the file should be remains gray. If the file
>is opened with File->Open, the initial blank page remains blank.
>
>This happens on both Sun and Linux platforms.
I verified the problem. Unfortunately AbiWord isn't perfect at importing
MS formats, especially long documents like this one, are there isn't anything
simple I can do to fix it.
Hopefully a newer AbiWord release will fix this; I'll try to update it
to the latest patch release as soon as I have time. In the meantime, as
you pointed out, you can view it in Open Office.
Alex Prengel
MIT Academic Computing
UNIX Software Support
