With that part tracked down I guess we are left with whether abiword should cope better with binary files being parsed as text... Since it can't actually display a binary file that contains text perhaps it would be better if it popped up a warning when such files were opened?
OpenOffice Writer actually pops up a "parse as" list when given a document it can't identify and setting the parse format to text resulted in the document being loaded in 5 seconds (of course it looked a mess and had lots of black diamonds in it). The same document doesn't finish loading in abiword after 5 minutes... -- abiword eats memory (possible OOM) and hangs when opening PDFs https://launchpad.net/bugs/44523 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
