Fwd: Re: Perplexing Problems

From: Hubert Figuiere (hub@nyorp.abisource.com)
Date: Thu Mar 14 2002 - 05:36:59 GMT

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    Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 17:43:40 +1100
    From: Keith Bates <kbates@pastors.com>
    To: abiword-user@abisource.com
    Subject: Re: Perplexing Problems
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    On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 20:38, Keith Bates wrote:
    > I've just got Abiword 0.99 going but it has some distressing problems:
    >
    > 1. It won't maintain my preferences when I quit
    >This is wierd. What sorts of preferences did you change that AbiWord
    isn't saving?

    Stuff like the disable UNIX fonts warnng, a coupe of other minor
    features.

    > 2. It won't keep the plug-ins when i quit (esp. GDKPixbuf)- this may
    > not even load correctly in the first place, I don't know
    >Remove the GdkPixbuf plugin if you're a GNOME user - you don't need it
    >anyway. I don't have any problems loading plugins - it might be an
    >artifact of the packager. What do you mean "won't keep the plugins when
    >i quit"??

    The plugin has to be reinstalled every time I restart.
    Without it abiword will only accept two formats, even though I'm using
    GNOME and put in the gnome option when installing

    4. When i try to load JPEG images it
    > crashes-- shuts down completely.
    >I haven't hat any problems with the JPEG loader, ImageMagick plugin
    >loader, or GdkPixbuf plugin loader.

    It only does this when I have "Automatic detection"- it seems OK when I
    remember to change to "select all GdkPixbuf formats" option...

    > 5. Spell check options are greyed out.
    >Do you have a dictionary installed?
     I think this is now working OK.

    Keith

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