AbiWord 2.2.5 Released

Just point me at an image that exhibts this behaviour for you. If I can't reproduce the bug I can't fix it.

I filed a report for you: http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=8607

Thanks very much for your information.
As this seems to work for most of our users it would be really really helpful if you could provide a trace of AbiWord's callstack. Otherwise it's nearly impossible to figure out what's going wrong.

AbiWord has basic support for the SXW format.
There's a whole slew of reasons why it's not better:
+ AbiWord has excellent support for RTF, which is widely used for document exchange between different apps, SXW is only used by OOo and now KOffice.
+ The OOo and "extended" Open Document format are very complex and therefore a lot of work to implement (over 500 / over 700 pages standard resp.)
+ For what will it be standard? Does that mean everybody will stop using MS Word and send me documents in Open Doc format? Was microsoft's .doc a standard and therefore everybody suddenly started to use it?

That said everyone who would like to hack on our OOo filter is very welcome. (In fact that's also how i joined the project).

- Rob

We're definately in the filling up the corners stage for AbiWord. What features do you miss from OOo that Abi needs?

1. Insert Text Box.
2. Insert Image.
3. Insert Caption beneath image

Now you can move the whole thing about in the document as you wish by dragging the text box.

I can imagine writing a dialog to do all this but it would be just as easy to do the 3 steps above which you'd need to do in a dialog anyway.

If you create a Caption Style you can index it in a Table of Figures
(A modified TOC)

Hmm maybe we need autonumbering so users can number Figures and Equations..

Abiwords support for OOo docs is good enough for viewing then, but you can't collaborate with Ab and OOo users with OOo doc format. OOo has much worse support for doc format, so you've got to use OOo in all of your organization, or mix MSW and AB.

When do we get Abiword filter for OOo? I think the guys working with Openoffice think their prog is so great they don't need to support other OS document formats...

What would benefit even more people and also ensure good interoperability with AbiWord is if OOo had a somewhat working RTF import filter.

- Rob

I know that this is a little late, but you could also look at smartpm.

www.smartpm.org

This is another offering from the developers of Synaptic. Which aims to support a number of packaging formats ie rpm and deb. Handles dependencies like a charm.

I have been using it on Fedora Core 3 for some time now, works a treat.

Cheers.

Except that Abiword packages are available for 10.1, at http://www.eslrahc.com/10.1/. I've mentioned this numerous times to the abiword webmaster, no idea why the link isn't given there.

Fixed. Thanks reinouts.

That's exactly the reason why i created the autopackage. Our small dev team will never be able to provide a great number of distros with native packages but Autopackage really helps out of that dilemma.

- Rob

This is getting really out-of-topic, but nevertheless people should start promoting the use of autopackages. At the moment it lacks a GUI for removal of already installed software etc, but apparently version 1.0 includes just that, they just haven't released 1.0 yet. Installing software with autopackage is even easier than using MSI or Installshield programs under Windozer. Mozilla and Firefox would be cool additions to autopackaged applications list, but there are probably a lot more.
-WareKala

Just installed an autopackage (Fyre), and there is a gui for removal of
autopackage installed software. Look in Footmenu -> System Tools -> Manage 3rd Party Software, or use the command line autopackage-manager-gtk.

RPM and DEB packages are usually made for one single distro only, and as such, there has to be one RPM for every single RPM-based distro and so forth. One single autpackage on the other hand fits for every one. That is already more than enough of a reason. Besides, installing software with an autopackage is even easier than using rpm. And have you even tried the Abiword autopackage? I did. Installed and worked like a charm, automatically inserting correct menu entries and I now even have the possibility to uninstall it with two mouse button clicks...And as a side note for specifically you: open your mouth when you know what you're talking about..
-WareKala

A) Your comment is offensive B) Your comment is hardly constructive C) You clearly never had to provide 10 different packages for a piece of software for all kinds of different Linux distro's out there. Windows and Mac do way better than Linux in this area.

There are other programs that use autopackage too. See http://navi.cx/~mike/autopackage-pdb/index.php

I just checked that list a few seconds before I saw your comments. I'm actually delighted to see that so popular and useful programs such as Gimp, Inkscape, Abiword and even Gaim are included there. I think Autopackage has huge potential, and as the installation of programs is usually the most difficult part for newbies, it helps to lift the barrier to crossing over to using Linux.
-WareKala

That's because of glibc incompatibilities. Binaries compiled on x86 will not work on AMD64 distributions anyway.