1.0.3 crashes/weird fonts on Windows XP Professional

From: Richard Thomas (rt@siroyan.com)
Date: Thu Dec 12 2002 - 11:34:10 EST

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    Help! I'm sure there must be something fundamentally wrong with my installation
    of AbiWord as I have seen AbiWord 1.0.3 reported as running fine on XP (Home
    Edition only?)

    The problems
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~

    - wierd fonts: many lines get a mysterious empty square box character added to
    them (usually at the end of the line). Also bullets/triangles usually come out
    as bold letters of the alphabet.

    - extra characters get added to the ends of lines: typically some lines will
    get the empty square box added, plus an ASCII number that was in the line. For
    example the line:

    Address:<tab>32 Hampton Row

    sometimes gets "<square>32" added at the end. Examining the .abw file, this
    does not have the extra repeated text in it.

    - crashes all the time: when doing simple edits on files written from scratch
    in Abiword, or particularly when reading in RTF files generated by Word or
    Framemaker.

    My system
    ~~~~~~~~~
    As delivered, except for the installation of a few commercial audio/imaging
    packages and basic device drivers for CD/monitor/etc:

    Pentium 4
    Windows XP Professional + Service Pack 1
    UK (so it warned about missing "en-GB" language until I installed the
    british.hash file)

    AbiWord installed using setup.exe with the default options.

    -

    I couldn't see anything in the FAQs / bugzilla / mailing list archive, but I
    seem to be having fairly fundamental problems that I expect other users are not
    seeing.. any ideas?

    Richard

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