Re: 1.0.3 crashes/weird fonts on Windows XP Professional

From: Chris Stovall (calvinist2000@hotmail.com)
Date: Sat Dec 14 2002 - 11:39:38 EST

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    I am running AbiWord 1.0.3 on a WindowsME machine and I am experiencing the
    exact same issue with the box character showing up in files I have brought
    into AbiWord from Word or from Microsoft Works (saved as RTF files). It
    seems to have something to do with formatting because if I try to manually
    delete the box characters and the numbers next to them, text that did look
    fine suddently turns into gibberish.

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Richard Thomas" <rt@siroyan.com>
    To: <abiword-user@abisource.com>
    Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 11:34 AM
    Subject: 1.0.3 crashes/weird fonts on Windows XP Professional

    > 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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