Re: Can't open RTF or DOC files in AbiWord Windows

Martin wrote:
> I have tried twice to get Abiword for Windows running
> on two different PCs, one with Win 98SE and one with
> Win ME. When I tried it on Win 98SE, a year ago, I
> remember that if I tried to save a file, the program
> crashed.
>
> Now I have tried to get it running on Win ME, and I
> cannot open any of my pre-existing RTF and DOC files
> created in other programs. If I try to open them, I
> get an "Untitled" file with nothing in it.
>
> I thought maybe I have to install the import plugins,
> so I tried that, and installing the plugins made the
> program crash, and give me a blue screen of death,
> every time I tried to run it.
>
> I installed the plugins by simply double clicking
> them. I don't know if that was the wrong way to do it.
> They weren't in the Abiword folder when I double
> clicked them. Might that be the problem?
>
> Surely there must be a simple answer to this. I don't
> understand why I can't find these problems when I
> search on Google. Can it only be happening to me?
>
> I'm using an old Pentium II laptop, 366 MHz, 196 MB
> Ram, Win ME. I'm using the very latest version of
> AbiWord for Windows which I downloaded a few days ago.
> Don't recall the version number. Okay, I guess it must
> be 2.6.2., as that seems to be the latest version.
>
> But the problems I had with Win 98 happened over a
> year ago, so I guess this is not a new problem.
>
> Thanks if you can solve this for me.
>
> Martin
>
>
>
To be honest this sounds like a hardware/operating system problem to me.

You should be able to open RTF and DOC by default with all versions of
AbiWord. Is it a specific document that causes problems? Can you save
then load a document in .abw format? I would try with 2.6.2 - a couple
days ago the latest was either 2.4.6 (very old by now) or 2.6.0.

Can you try on another computer? If you find it's a specific document
causing problems, please file a bug at http://bugzilla.abisource.com/

Let us know.

Ryan

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