Re: Problem inserting images

From: Dom Lachowicz (doml@appligent.com)
Date: Mon Oct 07 2002 - 17:23:47 EDT

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    You might have run into the infamous "incompatible libpng bug" on
    Mandrake. Abi runs fine on Mandrake. Those RPMs you downloaded were
    built on RedHat against a different libpng. That could explain
    *everything*.

    Dom

    On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 17:18, Rob Woodard wrote:
    > Additionally, I was just now able to insert these files into a document
    > with OpenOffice. I'm sure the problem is one with how I installed
    > abiword; but there is no way for me to know what it might be. I
    > installed the abiword rpm's I downloaded from the web site; I remember I
    > had to install with -nodeps because it kept complaining that I didn't
    > have all the dependencies, even after I went through the dependencies
    > one by one and verified they were there.
    >
    > Maybe abiword just isn't compatible with Mandrake?
    >
    > On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 13:08, Rob Woodard wrote:
    > > I have installed abiword 1.0.3 on Mandrake 8.2. It seems to be working,
    > > however I can't seem to import images. Whenever I try to insert an
    > > image into a document, I get an error message:
    > >
    > > Error importing file /home/rwoodard/floater.bmp.
    > >
    > > That's all it says. I can't find any information on *why* it can't
    > > import the file. The image is a screen shot I captured using the GIMP;
    > > I tried installing the GIMP plugin but that didn't help. The image
    > > opens fine using the GIMP so don't think there's anything wrong with the
    > > file.
    > >
    > > Any hints?
    > >
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