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

Thanks for that advice, Ryan. Okay, I installed 2.6.2
on my old laptop.

Not only can I not open RTF and DOC files with 2.6.2
(I just get an empty Untitled window), I cannot save
any files at all. Tried to save as abw, rtf, doc, txt,
Each time, got error message: "Writing error when
attempting to save
file///c:/latest/Abiword%20test.abw" (or rtf, txt,
doc)

Tested practically all save formats, it will save none
of them.

Also there is no cursor visible that you can click and
it stays and blinks, even though cursor blink is
selected in preferences. No cursor at all except when
you move the mouse. Cannot visibly "place" the
cursor in a word.

So...2.6.2 did not make a difference. And I still
cannot fathom what the heck is wrong with this program
and why it seems to only happen to me!

Next day...Now in the internet cafe I have installed
Abi 2.6.2 on the computer here...

and...well, when i open an rtf document, i get that
same "untitled" window but then I see that it is
importing the document and the "untitled" changes to
the name of the document. It takes a hell of a
long time to import the document, I must say.

Also, the cursor is blinking and you can put it where
you want on this computer. And I can save a document.

THis computer in the cybercafe is a Celeron 2.4 GHz
with 512 RAM with Win XP.

Could it be that my old computer (Pentium II 360 MHz,
196 MB RAM, Win ME) is too underpowered to run
AbiWord? Or, considering that it takes a long time to
import the RTF file even on this fast computer in the
cybercafe, could it be that, if I had waited long
enough, Abi would eventually have imported these files
on my slow computer?

But that doesn't explain the lack of cursor and
failure to save any document.

I see that my old system still easily meets Abi's
published system requirements. (486dx or better
processor, At least 16MB RAM
Windows 95b or later)

Martin

--- Ryan Pavlik <abiryan@ryand.net> wrote:

> 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.
>

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Received on Fri Apr 11 15:48:53 2008