Abiword - which version
 

Which version of Abiword (where should I get it) should I install on the N800 which is reasonably stable. Are there any versions which will read/write word and odt files.

Thanks for any help you can offer.

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I have not seen any that write to word files.

What we need is a port of Open Office.. Open office on the n800 would be great, you could even give mini presentations on the 4" screen!

Now that would be "suite"... HA HA I crack me up :)

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Stick to abw 2.2.7
http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3346

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Does 2.2.7 work with odt files/ is there a version which does?

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Unfortunately not. I asked for such feature, in http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/showthread.php?p=53505#post53505
Hope that the guy porting the app has time and energies to go on!

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Kinda sucks, really need odt support.

I'll have to cope without for now i guess...

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Hey - I'm working on stabilizing AbiWord on N800 - (at least the first) issue is that the current version (2.4.6) is compiled against Mistral, and certain actions (like sleep, etc) have changed in Bora (ABI-incompatible) and so we need a recompile. I know that, and I'm working on it :) All versions of AbiWord should save to MS Doc just fine - I personally use RTF for anything I have to share, ABW for things I keep to myself. The 2.4.6 build (and the later ones I will make to fix the N800 problems) supports ODT.

BTW - As long as you don't let the tablet fall asleep or click to the right of the right-hand margin, Abi 2.4.6 Mistral is actually somewhat usable on Bora/N800 - I'm hoping those two issues, and the difficulty with word import, will work better when I recompile - esp. since I just got a bluetooth keyboard for my N800 so I want to take rich-text notes and create docs on the move. Patience is a virtue :)

Thanks for using AbiWord!

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This sounds great! I can't wait to get a full word processor on my n800. Abiword looks great but with me it's quite unstable, especially when importing .doc or .odt.

Please keep up your great work! :)

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@Megabyte405: your work is much appreciated and nokia should reward you because you are going to make their tablets appealing for work tasks - one thing they should have done when launching such gizmos. Since unfortunately you won't take a dime from that corporation, do remind to setup a paypal account asap, in order to get the donations that I'm sure several people (including me) will be happy to send...
Don't forget pdf output, if feasible :-)

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Thanks for everything you are doing. Let us know how it goes.

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looking forward to it! thanks!

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Me 2 - this is the most important app for the n800 to make it useable for real business.

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Even aside from business use, word processing is the most universal thing people use
computers for at all. This program is vital for the N800 platform. Keep up the good
development work and know that all of our hopes and dreams are riding on you. :)

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really looking forward to a bora version!
thanks for all your work, highly appreciated!

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I read that some users had had no problem with Abiword, so I downloaded it and installed it.

It crashes very easily. If I mark text to delete it crashes. Making a strike on the display may crash it and I have yet to type more than a few lines in before it crashes because of some action or the other that I have made.

Perhaps I have failed to install something that it needs. I am not used to Linex and the method of distribution used although I have run, installed and maintained Unix, SCO Unix and NeXTStep systems.

I got the N800 as a birthday present for my daughter and so tried to get as many useful apps up and running as quickly as I could.

Gerald

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Gerald: Read my post earlier in the thread. Though the AbiWord 2.4.6 is compiled for the 770, as long as you are relatively careful it works so-so on the N800, there are certain things to avoid to make it more stable. I'll work on a new version soon.