Re: Reply to "Can't open Abiword text editor file - any ideas?"

If you could post the web site address and the copy of the file before
you fixed it to http://bugzilla.abisource.com/ that will help us ensure
that nobody needs to do this again :)

Thanks!
Ryan

Koala wrote:
>
> I originally posted this message:
> " Can't open Abiword text editor file - any ideas?
> When I try to open one of my Abiword files I get this message:
> "Parse error loading file ..., mismatched tag at line 184"
> I then get a message
> "Abiword cannot open (name of file). It appears to be an invalid
> document."
> Any ideas as to how I can open the file?"
>
> I've now solved the problem. I made a copy of the file in question so
> I could experiment with it, then used an editor called CPad to remove
> all the code from the offending line 184, and I left that line blank
> ie no code, then saved the file and Abiword opened the file quite
> happily.
> It seems that yesterday I pasted into the file part of a webpage from
> the internet and that was where the offending line 184 code came from
> that Abiword rejected. So if anybody else experiences this kind of
> problem as they probably will, try opening the file with an html code
> editor and deleting the code in the line Abiword tells you is the
> problem line (you need an editor that numbers each line of code so you
> can easily find the problem line).
> Hope this makes sense.
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Received on Sun Apr 15 07:06:03 2007