----- Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 17:43:40 +1100 From: Keith Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Perplexing Problems Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organization: New Life Christian Fellowship X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.4 (GTK+ 1.2.9; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 20:38, Keith Bates wrote: > I've just got Abiword 0.99 going but it has some distressing problems: > > 1. It won't maintain my preferences when I quit >This is wierd. What sorts of preferences did you change that AbiWord isn't saving? Stuff like the disable UNIX fonts warnng, a coupe of other minor features. > 2. It won't keep the plug-ins when i quit (esp. GDKPixbuf)- this may > not even load correctly in the first place, I don't know >Remove the GdkPixbuf plugin if you're a GNOME user - you don't need it >anyway. I don't have any problems loading plugins - it might be an >artifact of the packager. What do you mean "won't keep the plugins when >i quit"?? The plugin has to be reinstalled every time I restart. Without it abiword will only accept two formats, even though I'm using GNOME and put in the gnome option when installing 4. When i try to load JPEG images it > crashes-- shuts down completely. >I haven't hat any problems with the JPEG loader, ImageMagick plugin >loader, or GdkPixbuf plugin loader. It only does this when I have "Automatic detection"- it seems OK when I remember to change to "select all GdkPixbuf formats" option... > 5. Spell check options are greyed out. >Do you have a dictionary installed? I think this is now working OK. Keith ----- End forwarded message -----
