Page size vs Section page margins

From: Alan Rowan (arr242@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Oct 29 2003 - 12:49:13 EST

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    Windows Millennium Edition
    AbiWord pre-2.0.1

      In a version 1.99.X I managed to make a .abw
    document that would not open, it would continually be
    busy. I was waiting for version 2 in hopes it would
    fix my problem, but pre-2.0.1 still had the problem.
      The problem seems to be with documents with multiple
    sections, as is the case with the document that would
    not open. In one version of AbiWord I was able to set
    the Page size to less than the margins of the other
    sections, though for that section the page margins and
    page size were valid. I was able to fix the document
    by using a text editor to go into the .abw file and
    manually change the page margins for each section.
      I think the problem with AbiWord is that page
    margins apply to each section, at the time I did not
    realize the changes I was making were only applying to
    that section, while the Page size applies to the whole
    document. I think either Page size should apply to
    each section as does Page margins or there should be a
    check when changing Page size to see that Page margins
    do not leave room for the text in any or one of the
    Sections. It would also be a good idea to have a
    radio button in Page margins to apply them to all
    Sections, I think this should be the default setting
    for that button.

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