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totolotto

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From: Hungary

Registered: 2012-11-13

Posts: 114

Abiword 3.0 - crash when save as pdf

Recently I have upgraded Abiword to 3.0. When save a document in pdf format Abiword crashes and leaves 2 files in the directory:

.gsf-save-XXXXXX
documentname.abw.saved

Is it an issue with the new 3.0 version or something is wrong with my system? In previous version the pdf conversion worked fine. Thanks!

x33a

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Registered: 2009-08-15

Posts: 4,587

Re: Abiword 3.0 - crash when save as pdf

You should report this upstream.

renegat

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From: Europe

Registered: 2012-12-28

Posts: 95

Re: Abiword 3.0 - crash when save as pdf

Abiword 3.0 is a mess!
I can confirm abiword crashes when trying to save a document as *.pdf on 3.12.7-2-ARCH x86_64 + i686 + 3.8.13.1-1-ARCH armv7l, GNU/Linux, Openbox, LXDE.
Furthermore the top ruler is covered by a grey bar as soon as you click into the text window so you cannot use tabulators nor indentation. (Bugzilla Bug 13582)
The system wide theme and appearance settings are ignored and abiword appears in a very ugly GTK standard theme.

Seems like abiword 3.0 has inherited all the long known bugs from its 2.9.X antecessors.
IMHO it was a bad decision to put abiword 3.0 into the repositorys as it is unstable and buggy.

The only way is to downgrade to last stable 2.8.6-9 version until abiword becomes usable again.

EDIT: Another annoying bug: *.odt files created and saved with abiword 2.8.X cannot be opened with abiword 3.X!!

Last edited by renegat (2014-02-03 00:35:12)

Stefan Husmann

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-08-07

Posts: 1,391

Re: Abiword 3.0 - crash when save as pdf

I wonder why abiword 3.0.0 is in the repos now. I do not see any hint on its homepage that it is stable now. There still 2.8.6 is marked stable.

There also is no maintainer for Arch Linux right now.

x33a

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Registered: 2009-08-15

Posts: 4,587

Re: Abiword 3.0 - crash when save as pdf

If 3.0 isn't the recommended version, one of you should open a bug report on the Arch bugtracker and ask for a downgrade. I would open the bug report, but I don't use abiword, and wouldn't be able to help with any followup questions.

AndyRTR

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From: Magdeburg/Germany

Registered: 2005-10-07

Posts: 1,642

Re: Abiword 3.0 - crash when save as pdf

We couldn't compile old abiword against new libgcrypt. Bumping to the last official release that is also used by Fedora and maybe more distributions was the logical step.

If something is broken please find out if it's packaging issue or an upstream bug and report it then to the proper people.

totolotto

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From: Hungary

Registered: 2012-11-13

Posts: 114

Re: Abiword 3.0 - crash when save as pdf

I sent this bug to Bugzilla and turned out this this issue was already reported and fixed. Anyway, I have downgraded Abiword to 2.8.6-9 for the time being.