Abiword development builds 2.7.X series - 7Jul2009

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technosaurus · #1 Post by **technosaurus** » Sun 07 Jun 2009, 03:49

These are the most recent development releases of abiword. I compiled it with options that minimize the screen real estate used specifically for our netbook & umpc users or others with smaller screens

I have uploaded an "embedded" version to http://puppylinux.asia/members/T/

The last version that would compile embedded is
http://puppylinux.asia/members/T/486_pe ... 2-i486.pet

compiled with puppy 4.2.1 using the following configure options
./configure --enable-menubutton --enable-embedded=generic -enable-builtin-plugins --prefix=/usr --build=i486-t2-linux-gnu

Here is the sfs
http://puppylinux.asia/members/T/apps_s ... 86_421.sfs
(down until july?)
login&password is puppy&linux

also the most recent versions are here as pet or sfs:
http://pupweb.org/desktop/abiword_cut-2.7.5-i486.pet
http://pupweb.org/desktop/abiword_cut-2 ... 86_421.sfs
http://pupweb.org/desktop/abiword_cut-2 ... fs-md5.txt
http://puppylinux.asia/members/T/486_pe ... 6-i486.pet

jakfish · #2 Post by **jakfish** » Mon 08 Jun 2009, 01:49

A very nice addition, but I can't download it. I put puppy/linux, but I'm told it's forbidden.

Jake

technosaurus · #3 Post by **technosaurus** » Mon 08 Jun 2009, 02:48

fixed - I uploaded the sfs last and it timed out before I changed permissions

There are quite a few issues with this release due to Puppy's version of gtk+ ... I will compile it again for Upup (woof alpha 9) to see if this fixes things (it freezes up on some menu options... running from command line almost always references a gtk+ failure of some kind)

jakfish · #4 Post by **jakfish** » Mon 08 Jun 2009, 03:17

Thanks, I'm downloading it now. I'm running 4.1.2 on an eee 900 and will let you know how it goes.

Jake

Libretto100ct · #5 Post by **Libretto100ct** » Wed 10 Jun 2009, 19:48

Downloaded & Testing on a Aspire One D250

jakfish · #6 Post by **jakfish** » Wed 10 Jun 2009, 22:50

i apologize for the delay. I've just started playing around with this sfs. I get it to load okay, but whichever abiword icon I click, I keep bringing up 4.1.2's stock abiword 2.6.3.

How do I actually start this version?

Jake

#7 Post by **ttuuxxx** » Thu 11 Jun 2009, 16:39

technosaurus wrote:This is the most recent development release of abiword. I compiled it with options that minimize the screen real estate used specifically for our netbook & umpc users or others with smaller screens

I downloaded the pet package to check it out and noticed you didn't strip your bins or remove the locales, one bin alone went down 1MB in size, the end result with all English's inc, was almost 2MB compressed smaller. 4653kb pet
other than that really cool, great job

tuuxxx

Ps still has that xorg font issue, Man I wish abiword would wake up to that, the later 2.6 series also has that issue where it doesn't handle xorg fonts, its all the fonts located in /usr/X11R7/lib/X11/fonts/misc
nolonger work in Abiword from about 2.66 onward.
ttuuxxx

#8 Post by **ttuuxxx** » Thu 11 Jun 2009, 17:05

This pet below will change the default font, so it isn't messed up straight away

ttuuxxx

technosaurus · #9 Post by **technosaurus** » Thu 11 Jun 2009, 23:58

Thanks for the font fix ttuuxxx, I did make a stripped version but after having a couple of freeze-ups I decided not to distribute a testing version without debugging symbols so that maybe we can better make the appropriate bug reports. I actually was debating on having it run using "rxvt -e abiword" so that if you had to kill it, you would see the error messages. I would definitely not consider it ready for any release yet, but it has great potential so please support the abiword project by submitting your bug reports to abisource. http://www.abisource.com/support/bugs/

In case anyone is interested in compiling the next release, these were the configure options that I used (some of the plugins failed to build for various reasons, so I removed them...)

./configure --enable-menubutton --enable-embedded=generic -enable-builtin-plugins="applix babelfish clarisworks docbook eml freetranslation gdict gimp google hancom hrtext iscii kword latex loadbindings mif mswrite opendocument openwriter opml paint passepartout pdb pdf s5 sdw t602 urldict wikipedia wml xslfo" --prefix=/usr --build=i486-t2-linux-gnu

In case anyone is wondering why I decided to go with built-in plugins: abiword tries to load all plugins by default (can be changed in the config) and loading plugins actually required more resources and more time to load than just having them built in ... also (when stripped) the package was quite a bit smaller with builtin plugins even than with stripped plugin libs.

technosaurus · #10 Post by **technosaurus** » Fri 12 Jun 2009, 02:01

Ok, I am compiling 2.7.4 now - ./configure's stupid sanity check was keeping me from running it because it was just released in a timezone that made it look like I was trying to compile before it was made... I rebooted and changed the date in my bios and all is going well (slow though since I am now using default 4.2.1 with no smp)

this time I am using --disable-default-plugins as well so that it doesn't get the odf plugin twice

@ttuuxxx any idea how to get it to find the spell check stuff ??? --with-?spell=/usr/???? or enchant?? I'm not quite sure, but it seems like they may be in a non-standard location that configure does not look

#11 Post by **ttuuxxx** » Fri 12 Jun 2009, 03:21

get hspell and compile/install it.
get enchant and compile/install it.
get Abiword and compile compile/install it.
I think that was it, The devx doesn't have all the dev files for it. so you need to compile all the actual programs.
ttuuxxx

technosaurus · #12 Post by **technosaurus** » Sat 13 Jun 2009, 04:20

There were a bunch of hildon patches in 2.7.3 that broke the generic embedded build so I built the standard style build for this one ... still had to make one patch for a gtk notebook remove page error... there is a lot of room for code cleanup if anyone needs a cpp project to work on, I only know enough to be dangerous (my first attempt at a quick fix gave me no menus at all - only the icon shortcuts)

If anyone would like to test its only 2.8mb now (same config on everything else though + ttuuxxx's fix)
http://puppylinux.asia/members/T/486_pe ... 4-i486.pet
http://puppylinux.asia/members/T/apps_s ... 86_421.sfs

#13 Post by **ttuuxxx** » Sat 13 Jun 2009, 09:10

I think this version has great potential

It would be nice if in the menu settings you could switch back to the traditional desktop also, That would be real handy for puppy, then we could have say a traditional look and small pc users could tick "compact display" and it would save the setting and switch screens.

ttuuxxx

jakfish · #14 Post by **jakfish** » Sat 13 Jun 2009, 12:18

Most recent pet of this customization installs and runs great on eee 900. No more awkward alt-leftclick-windowdragging. I put it through its paces, no crashes yet.

Abiword developers still determined to do without smart quotes and em dashes, making professional manuscripts an impossibility, but the work here is amazing. Many thanks. Visually, you've created a different word processor for the netbook.

Jake

dawnsboy · #15 Post by **dawnsboy** » Sun 14 Jun 2009, 00:44

Unfortunately this download is temporarily unavailable due to puppylinux.asia being closed.

technosaurus · #16 Post by **technosaurus** » Mon 22 Jun 2009, 01:01

I just uploaded the 2.7.5 build (see first post)- it may still need ttuuxxx's font fix pet installed (no problems here though, but let me know - I may have had leftover files)

built with:
./configure --disable-default-plugins --enable-builtin-plugins="applix babelfish clarisworks docbook eml freetranslation gdict gimp google hancom hrtext iscii kword latex loadbindings mif mswrite opendocument openwriter opml paint passepartout pdb pdf s5 sdw t602 urldict wikipedia wml xslfo" --prefix=/usr --build=i486-t2-linux-gnu --disable-libtool-lock

technosaurus · #17 Post by **technosaurus** » Wed 08 Jul 2009, 01:43

I am uploading 2.7.6 - its only ~2.5MB and a good candidate to go in a testing build for woof
http://puppylinux.asia/members/T/486_pe ... 6-i486.pet

I discovered a strange bug/feature during this compile
I compiled the entire package with normal shared libraries then used --enable-static --disable-shared with the same configure options
since the source had already been built it used the static libraries from the shared build to create the abiword binary which reduced the size from 4kb abiword + 8MB libabiword to just a 6.5MB abiword
I suspect that if I had done that from the start it would be ~20MB based on my past experience using statifier/ermine on abiword

This includes all of the following plugins builtin (Note that the mswrite plugin is now included - for some reason it would not link properly until I switched to static)
"applix babelfish clarisworks docbook eml freetranslation gdict gimp google hancom hrtext iscii kword latex mswrite loadbindings mif opendocument openwriter opml paint passepartout pdb pdf presentation s5 sdw t602 urldict wikipedia wml xslfo"

you will still need to install enchant for (builtin) spell checking if you don't already have it but I did include the other dependencies for the plugin package below

#18 Post by **ttuuxxx** » Wed 08 Jul 2009, 04:52

its missing libwv-1.2.so.3
ttuuxxx

#19 Post by **ttuuxxx** » Wed 08 Jul 2009, 05:40

Now that I've compiled libwv-1.2.so.3 it works

But even better all the freakin fonts are working now, well the linux,cursor,micro aren't but who cares about those fonts, the main ones are working and that whats really matters so excellent Job !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The only issue left is that when I installed enchant, the spellcheck wasn't working, it said no missing deps so maybe its a system link, I haven't looked yet.
ttuuxxx
Ps I spent days messing around with system fonts trying to get this working and you managed to do it with static. man that's good !!!.

technosaurus · #20 Post by **technosaurus** » Thu 09 Jul 2009, 01:01

I forgot that I had installed libwv
Perhaps that is what the mswrite plugin needed. If so I may make it not built in on the next release - just a regular plugin (to reduce the dependencies) Unfortunately the spell check functionality is not a plugin for some reason, so we are stuck with requiring enchant (other programs can and do use it though I guess)

I don't remember where I got that libwv but maybe these will work (I have too much stuff in RAM right now to reboot and test)
http://www.puppylinux.ca/tpp/jb4x4/abiw ... 86-1sl.pet
ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dist ... 5-pup4.pet

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