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On Fri, 21 Dec 2007, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> Message from Steven
> ===================
> Sindi wrote:
> > My problem was that Abiword did not display the
> > difference between grey and black text
>
> Colors?  I never use colors in AbiWord (I'm not even
> sure whether AbiWord does colors).  My printer is a
> dot-matrix so colors in documents are useless to me.

I don't print colored documents either (on the HP Laserjet 6L or the 
dot-matrix) but I HAD to be see them in order to translate this document 
because they only wanted the 'black' parts done, not the grey or red.

I have loop BL3 working on the primary master drive (the slave failed and 
affected CMOS, and it keeps rebooting randomly).  I installed links2 and 
it is not displaying the text colors.

Opera in Win98 is displaying black on black for htm and txt files (as is 
the wordprocessor - something wrong with the video settings?).  Will try 
with opera/linux to see if rtf2html preserved the text colors.

> > Abiword does not display the tables in WORD either.
>
> Are we talking RTF or DOC?  AbiWord only handles simple
> DOCs well; it has problems with more complicated ones.
> However, I've never had problem with RTFs on AbiWord
> (but, of course, I don't do colors).

RTF in this case.  I asked for PDF (which SVP svgalib-based pdf viewer 
displays perfectly). They sent it after hours and then went home.

I usually use antiword on doc files.  I don't know if it would have 
handled this colored stuff if I converted to ps instead of text.
It attempts some formatting when converting to plain text.

It is always complicated stuff that I am sent as WORD files - tables,
colors, little ovals surrounding the text...  MS WORD to PDF convertor 
does this properly.  Ghostscript (SVP uses it) and xpdf do well.

> > So a larger Xvesa cursor would not make opera any more legible.
>
> Opera is not legible for you?  Have you tried magnifying
> the screen?  Opera has a nice magnify feature -- works
> for graphics too.

The X cursor in Opera (or jwm in general) was too small for one of my 
experimental subjects to even find.  Magnifying Opera probably would not 
magnify the cursor.

The cursor is needed by jwm to change focus within Opera.  Alt-Tab seems 
to work outside of Opera to change focus to a new rxvt.  I may replace jwm 
with icewm for her.  Unless you want to try compiling the 
automatic-focus-changing feature from a later version into this one.

My other suggestion was that she get reading glasses to supplement her 
bifocals.

> Cheers,
> Steven