Re: Newbie questions

On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, Francis James Franklin wrote:

> Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 08:33:42 +0100
> From: Francis James Franklin <postmaster@alinameridon.plus.com>
> To: Barry Wong <bwong@stanfordalumni.org>
> Cc: abiword-user@abisource.com
> Subject: Re: Newbie questions
>
>
>
> On 5 Oct 2005, at 03:27, Barry Wong wrote:
> > Just downloaded AbiWord 2.2.10 for Mac OS X (10.4) from SourceForge.
> > But I am surprised that I can't open Word files. It doesn't work when
> > I drag a Word file to the AbiWord icon, nor does it work from within
> > the app using File -> Open. When I open a file, all I get is a blank
> > document (as if I can tried to create a new document). The Word files
> > were written with the Mac version of MS Word 2001 under Mac System
> > 9.1.
>
> Hi,
> Word import seems to work okay for me with AbiWord 2.2.10 on OS X 10.3.

See also
http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=9601

Hub seems to have figured out the problem:
"Mac problem. Adding .doc to the file works fine."

Sincerely

Alan Horkan

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Received on Fri Oct 7 18:12:24 2005