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mumpf

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From: Switzerland

Registered: 2006-09-05

Posts: 95

Abiword shuts down opening a file

Abiword 2.4.5 shuts down, when I open a *.doc file, created with Word 2003. I tried different documents, but it's still the same. Abiword closes down without any error message.

When I open the documents with Open Office, I don't have any problem (apart from the ugly font-rendering).

I wondered, whether or not abiword-plugins are needed, so I tried to install them.

pacman -S abiword-plugins

checking package integrity... done.
loading package data... done.
checking for file conflicts...
error: the following file conflicts were found:
  gnome-common: /etc/dbus-1/session.d/gnome.conf: exists in filesystem
  gnome-common: /etc/profile.d/gnome.sh: exists in filesystem
  gnome-common: /opt/gnome/share/aclocal/gnome-common.m4: exists in filesystem
  gnome-common: /opt/gnome/share/aclocal/gnome-compiler-flags.m4: exists in filesystem

errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

I open the documents from different locations: USB-stick (vfat) and hd-partition (ext3). Does anybody have similar problems with the up-to date abiword?

Best regards

mumpf

mumpf

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From: Switzerland

Registered: 2006-09-05

Posts: 95

Re: Abiword shuts down opening a file

I have logged this problem as a bug, because everything works fine, when I compile abiword with the command "bash abiword-2.4.5.x86.package", the package from abiword.com.

However I must say, I have deleted the files, mentioned in the error-message above, beforehand.

Chman

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Registered: 2006-01-31

Posts: 169

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Re: Abiword shuts down opening a file

Yep, same "*.doc crash" bug here...

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It's not a bug, it's a feature. Word documents are evil.
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dadexter

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From: Dorval, QC, Canada

Registered: 2004-09-07

Posts: 274

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Re: Abiword shuts down opening a file

[OSS fanatic]
It's not a bug, it's a feature. Word documents are evil.
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THEY ARE!!!  :twisted:  :twisted:  :twisted:

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stonecrest

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From: Boulder

Registered: 2005-01-22

Posts: 1,190

Re: Abiword shuts down opening a file

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It's not a bug, it's a feature. Word documents are evil.
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THEY ARE!!!  :twisted:  :twisted:  :twisted:

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Pablo_Escobar

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From: Poznan, Poland

Registered: 2005-12-20

Posts: 65

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Re: Abiword shuts down opening a file

Yep, had the same problem on two boxes.
I had to switch to OO to open evil  :twisted: docs :twisted:

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mumpf

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From: Switzerland

Registered: 2006-09-05

Posts: 95

Re: Abiword shuts down opening a file

I didn't have any problems to open the same "evil" word-document with Zenwalk abiword (apart from some special characters which are a bit "changed" now). Is it possible, that -again- a certain dependancy problem exists, which occurs in certain situations (depending on "evil" word-documents)?

brotheris

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Registered: 2006-01-17

Posts: 23

Re: Abiword shuts down opening a file

AbiWord shuts down when opening .doc files here too

Gustavo

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From: Brazil

Registered: 2006-07-04

Posts: 92

Re: Abiword shuts down opening a file

Sorry for the bump but I'm having this problem too. Any hints?

EDIT:

I made a new package with 2.4.6 source and without --with-libxml2 --disable-gucharmap --with-sys-wv flags and it's working fine.

Abecedarian

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Registered: 2006-07-30

Posts: 43

Re: Abiword shuts down opening a file

I was getting the same problem, so I switched to OpenOffice.org. I'd recommend it.

cougar

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From: France

Registered: 2006-06-24

Posts: 93

Re: Abiword shuts down opening a file

The guy who is in charge of the abiword package really should update it to the last version.

Gastrognome

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From: Montreal, QC

Registered: 2006-11-20

Posts: 10

Re: Abiword shuts down opening a file

I too have had this problem. Abiword *and* OO both just crap out if I try to open a .doc document.  The only way I have found around around this is to email it to myself (using gmail) and have it converted to html so I can cut&paste it to abi or OO.

y4mz

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Registered: 2007-06-16

Posts: 16

Re: Abiword shuts down opening a file

I'm having this problem with some .doc files. Same files work fine on Xubuntu's AbiWord.

Preacher

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From: UK

Registered: 2006-09-26

Posts: 46

Re: Abiword shuts down opening a file

I used to have the same problem and resolved it by downloading and installing the app from the Abiword website

http://www.abisource.com/download/

However, have installed most recent package and it seems to work fine.

Hope this helps

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dhave

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From: Outside the matrix.

Registered: 2005-05-15

Posts: 1,112

Re: Abiword shuts down opening a file

Like others, I was able to get Abiword to open .doc files by uninstalling the arch package for abiword and then compiling abiword from source. I don't know whether the problem is that the arch package contains an older version (2.4.6 vs. 2.5.1) or whether it has to do with compiling the app on one's own system.

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