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Topic: word processing, abiword, is there any other word process

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amadis

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Posted: April 25 2006,21:07

I need to run any word processor that is compatible with ms-word documents. In my pc where I have DSL (Pentium 166, 32 MB RAM, DSL HD installed) OpenOffice runs too slow.
I tried the abiword version from the DSL repository (Abiword 2.0.1) but that version doesn't seem to open my word documents at all... a lot of extrange characters appears...

Does anybody knows how to install a newer version of abiword? Or any other word processor capable to read and write documents in ms-word format?

Regards from Argentina

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Posted: April 26 2006,22:50

There IS a newer version of abiword available as .dsl. It is version 2.2.7.
You 'll need updated gtk. See the readme for further information.

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Posted: April 27 2006,15:50

Has anyone hacked together working spellchecking for abiword yet?

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amadis

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Posted: May 01 2006,14:25

Thanks for the help!
I've tried abiword version 2.2.7, but a weird problem is going on... When I open any document created with ms-word a lot of "??" symbols appears.
I didn't experience that problem when I open the same file with the latest abiword version for win.
Should I need a newer version of Abiword for DSL? Or might be any install problem with the 2.2.7 version? (I installed the gtk2 for abiword).

Thanks in advance

piccolo

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Posted: May 02 2006,14:59

Also I write from Argentina. That problem was reported several times before:

Abiprobs, utf8/iso-8859-1

Abiword, can't handle documents in ".doc" format

An unrelated question:
Have you problems using DSL with spanish keyboards?
Many people have problems with spanish, italian and deutsch keyboards.

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