On 9/21/06, Charles Curley <charlescurley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 08:42:49AM -0500, Steven P. Ulrick wrote: > On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 13:01:21 +0200 > "Trond Danielsen" <trond.danielsen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 9/20/06, Trond Danielsen <trond.danielsen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > In conclusion, on a fully updated FC5 machine running KDE from KDE's > Branch 3.5 (compiled from source), with the Abiword that is currently > in Fedora Extras (version 2.4.5) ODT documents created in Abiword open > perfectly on OpenOffice.org 2.0.3, Abiword 2.4.5 and KWord 1.6 beta 1. > This is all with no tweaking on my part. I just did "yum install > abiword" and everything just worked. > Having just written an article on FOSS tools for technical writers for the Society for Technical Communications' journal, I was a bit disconcerted by Mr. Danielsen's assertion. I concur with Mr. Ulrick: Abiword can save a document in ODF. For a quick acceptance test, I was able to round trip a document with no fancy formatting. Possibly Mr. Danielsen accidentally saved the document in some other format? In Abiword, File -> Save As. In the "Save file as type" widget, select "OpenDocument (.odt)". Saving it this way provides the extension. Open in the ODF app of your choice. abiword.i386 1:2.4.5-2.fc5 openoffice.org-core.i386 1:2.0.2-5.17.2 [ccurley@dragon ~]$ file abiword.odt abiword.odt: OpenDocument Text
Hi Again! I tried to reproduce the error again, but apparently I could not :(. My first document was three pages long and consisted of formulas, pictures (svg and png) etc. Everything appered to be ok when I saved it, but neither abiword nor ooffice could open it again. I unziped the odt file, and verified that the file content.xml was empty. I asked in #abiword at freenode.net, but they did not have any answers. I tried again and created a test document also with some pictures and formulas, but this time it worked out ok. One problem still remains: I have some documents that are created in ooffice writer that include graphics, and they can not be opened in abiword... -- Trond Danielsen
