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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
 
> I tried Abiword in BL3 (don't have xset yet in BL2 to set it up 
> with) and it displays the file perfectly on screen but I don't have 
> BL3 set up to print ps files.  So I saved as html.  When I try to 
> view with lynx I get a lot of garbage.

Why didn't you print it to a PS file? You don't need lpr to do that,
just AbiWord.

> I am about to try DOS wvare next, and will then resign myself to 
> translating from the screen between two computers.  Nice to have 
> Abiword, which is supposedly based on wvware.  I wonder why it can 
> display images but not save them as images.  Maybe rtf?

I tried inserting an image in a document, then I right-clicked on the
image and chose Save Image As... Does it handle Word files differently?

> Abiword just stopped working as soon as I changed the file name to .rtf
> (won't let me choose to save it as rtf) and now it refuses to load 
> from rxvt in X.  Or from the menu.  And when I try to exit X 
> (Ctl-Alt-Del) I get a blank blue screen with a few green stripes at 
> the top.  Fun with Xvesa again.
>
> ps - no X running.
> 
> Since it is the weekend they can't send me anything again until 
> Monday and someone else wants me to translate two large colored 
> jpeg files for Tuesday which were originally a black and white 
> 2-page document and are probably now too fuzzy to read since jpegs 
> are lossy by default.  I long for the good old days when people 
> sent everything by FedEx and I had to send back perfect typed copy 
> using Whiteout.  At least I could read things.

David
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