Re: Why are characters not showing?

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>
> On Mar 31, 2005, at 3:43 PM, Ryan Pavlik wrote:
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>>
>> Peter Robson wrote:
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>>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I've just installed AbiWord on W98SE to evaluate it for a friend who
>>> doesn't want to buy MS Word. It looks good apart from no characters
>>> show on screen! I can see table boundaries. I can see space markers.
>>> I can see clip art. I can misspell words and see the red underline.
>>> I can save them as a text file and open it and see them. And, no,
>>> I'm not looking at white characters on a white background.
>>> Highlighting has no effect. I've never had this problem with any
>>> other application.
>>>
>>> Apologies (as an AbiWord newbie) if the answer is blindingly obvious
>>> or if the question has been answered many times before (but I did
>>> look back over the last six months or so in the archive and couldn't
>>> spot anything.)

Very strange. Maybe his system is missing a vital font, like Times New
Roman? I know very little about Windows, can you check to see if "Times
New Roman" is installed? If it isn't I believe it can be downloaded from
somewhere on the web. Try googling for it.

>>>
>>> TIA
>>>
>>> Peter
>>>
>
> Greetings:
>
> Something similar happens when I import a .rtf file containing images.
> The cursor suddenly turns into a white block within the edit area and
> will only turn normal when I click on text, but reverts into a white
> block within a image space or even just the paragraph margins of an
> image.

Sounds like the OSX port is missing a cursor shape. Please enter the bug
in our bugzilla data base.

>
> Additionally, importing an .sxw document in Courier 12 renders in
> AbiWord as Times New Roman 12 font with all paragraph ruler formating
> stripped away, as though rendered just as pure text. Doesn't occur with
> .rtf (virtually perfect), just .sxw. Would like to fluidly use files
> from those using NeoOffice.

What you see is the current limitations of our swx importer. We do a
pretty good job with RTF though, as you noticed and our next release
(2.2.6) has a number of niggly RTF bugs fixed.

On the other hand, try importing an *.abw file with neoOffice and see what
you get. By comparison OpenOffice/neoOffice has over 100 paid developers
working fulltime on the project.

>
> In future AbiWord versions, are you considering a way one can hook into
> Nisus Thesaurus?
>
> Keep up the great work!

I believe our next release (2.2.6) will ship with the excellent Open
Source Theasurus (Aiksaurus) that we've shipped with our Linux port and
Windows ports for a number of years.

Give it a try. I'm genuinely interested to see what people think of it. I
really like it.

Thanks for your kind words.

Martin

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Received on Sun Apr 3 16:23:24 2005