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