Re: abiword

[Chris Cyll <Christopher.D.Cyll@williams.edu>]

Marcelo,
Actually, I was just on the Abiword (www.abiword.org) web page and I notice 
that they provide deb packages for the recently release 0.7.14.  I love it 
when people do that.  Not to mention that the packages run on both potato and 
unstable.  So, if you want to run a more recent version then is in stable 
(and unstable too, I might add =), you could give them a shot.
-Chris

On Tuesday 24 April 2001 16:40, Daniel Freedman wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2001, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:
> > Hi Christopher
> > thanks for your answer
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 05:03:05PM -0500, Christopher Cyll wrote:
> > > Hi Marcelo,
> > > The Abiword in Unstable reads Word97 just fine (though complicated MS
> > > Word features will not show up).  What version of Debian are you
> > > running?
> >
> > Potato!
> >
> > > Stable is a bunch of revisions behind on Abiword, so if that's what you
> > > run, YMMV.  Does anyone who uses Abiword on Stable know how well
> > > importing works?
> >
> > Sorry about my ignorance, but what does YMMV mean?
>
> Marcelo,
> It means "Your mileage may vary," implying a cautionary note
> in making inductions from one person's experience.
>
> Chris,
> On the rare occasions I'm still forced to deal with .DOC, I've used
> Abiword 0.7.7 (the one in potato) with success in importing MS Word
> documents, but these have generally been quite simple.  From what I
> know, MS Word Import is so hard mainly because .DOC it is not a very
> explicitly defined format, nor does there exist any real reference
> implementation (supposedly documents in MSDN from ~98 timeframe are
> incomplete and quite buggy).  First of all, it is constantly evolving
> through versions of Word, and much worse, it is supposedly very
> dependent upon the overall environment of windows (font settings,
> etc.).  This last point can be empirically verified as many of us
> probably have had past experience with the same document appearing
> quite differently on different Windows machines, even when using the
> same version of Word.
>
> Hope this helps and take care,
>
> Daniel
>
> > Thanks!
> > Marcelo
> > --

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