From: John Manko (jmanko@monkeynet.org)
Date: Mon Sep 16 2002 - 17:24:45 EDT
Does Abi require an extension on the file?
Try opening it in vi or some regular text editor.
If the file is complete, you will see your story surrounded by
a bunch or formatting characters and such. myabe you can extract it
from there.
John Manko
Pat McMahon wrote:
>Hello!
>
>Can anyone help me?
>On Saturday I spent several hours on a piece of creative fiction. I was very
>pleased with my effort. By Saturday evening I had one of the best short
>stories I have been able to put together in a long time. I saved the
>document as I went along.
>However, at around 9.00pm, just before going to the pub to have a quiet
>celebration over a pint of Guinness I opened the document..........I found
>that
>it only opened as a complete page of question marks.......like this:
>????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
>?????????
>
>Is it possible for me to retrieve my work in any way.
>
>The document was over 1,000 words, and I just will not be able to recreate
>the
>piece from memory..........
>
>I saved it either to AbiWord (.abw) or to Microsoft Word (.doc) I am not
>sure which, but it was one of these.
>
>It would be great someone could help me retrieve it. I have tried all the
>usual things, searching files and folders etc.
>
>Pat McMahon,
>Galway,
>Ireland.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: José Rodrigo Sanjurjo Amado <josesan@udc.es>
>To: abiword-user@abisource.com <abiword-user@abisource.com>
>Date: 16 September 2002 18:37
>Subject: Abiword doesn't work
>
>
>
>
>> Hi,
>> When I run abiword I obtain this message: "The font metrics file
>>[/usr/share/AbiSuite/fonts//n021003l.pfb.afm] could not be opened for
>>parsing, nor was it possible to retrieve the needed information from the
>>X server; this is a fatal error and AbiWord will terminate". The AbiWord
>>finishes.
>> I have installed abisuite-1.0.1-1.ximian.2, and I have Red Hat 7.0,
>>with XFree86-4.0.1-1. My machine is a PC Pentium III 500 MHz.
>> Could anyone help me? Thanks in advance.
>>
>> José Sanjurjo.
>>
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