Marcelo, Actually, I was just on the Abiword (www.abiword.org) web page and I notice that they provide deb packages for the recently release 0.7.14. I love it when people do that. Not to mention that the packages run on both potato and unstable. So, if you want to run a more recent version then is in stable (and unstable too, I might add =), you could give them a shot. -Chris
On Tuesday 24 April 2001 16:40, Daniel Freedman wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2001, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > Hi Christopher > > thanks for your answer > > > > On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 05:03:05PM -0500, Christopher Cyll wrote: > > > Hi Marcelo, > > > The Abiword in Unstable reads Word97 just fine (though complicated MS > > > Word features will not show up). What version of Debian are you > > > running? > > > > Potato! > > > > > Stable is a bunch of revisions behind on Abiword, so if that's what you > > > run, YMMV. Does anyone who uses Abiword on Stable know how well > > > importing works? > > > > Sorry about my ignorance, but what does YMMV mean? > > Marcelo, > It means "Your mileage may vary," implying a cautionary note > in making inductions from one person's experience. > > Chris, > On the rare occasions I'm still forced to deal with .DOC, I've used > Abiword 0.7.7 (the one in potato) with success in importing MS Word > documents, but these have generally been quite simple. From what I > know, MS Word Import is so hard mainly because .DOC it is not a very > explicitly defined format, nor does there exist any real reference > implementation (supposedly documents in MSDN from ~98 timeframe are > incomplete and quite buggy). First of all, it is constantly evolving > through versions of Word, and much worse, it is supposedly very > dependent upon the overall environment of windows (font settings, > etc.). This last point can be empirically verified as many of us > probably have had past experience with the same document appearing > quite differently on different Windows machines, even when using the > same version of Word. > > Hope this helps and take care, > > Daniel > > > Thanks! > > Marcelo > > -- -- Entropy. It's what's for dinner.
