Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[charlie6]

Hi,
(abi2.7.10 installed on a pup_save.2fs and boot on live-cd.)

[technosaurus]

My compiles are heavily optimized for size (as much as is possible with Puppy's old gcc) so giving good bug reports is sometimes difficult (but better if you start abiword from the command line). With that in mind any bug report that is clear, specific and detailed is almost always helpful.

SIDE NOTE: certain options (not sure which) in abiword require higher versions of core libraries like gtk, but it still compiles on older versions. If I compile one specifically for the 2.X series it may make a difference since I think ttuuxxx has upgraded most of those.

@ ttuuxxx
I think abiword was the only program using libgnomeprint and libgnomeprintui as well as libwv

[ttuuxxx]

[technosaurus]

Nope, only inkscape lite does - the newer version of it may not even require libgnomeprint since it is basically deprecated. It would be nice to use that 550k from libgnomeprint... and have abiword set up with the gimp plugin. There is always siag for a spreadsheet program, its about 500k, but it is old and definitely needs an icon upgrade.

[technosaurus]

OK I finally compiled the entire libboost just so I could get one small library for the openxml plugin. The binary is still smaller than the 2.6 version even with an extra 2MB of builtin plugins, enchant (spell check), libwv libwmf and part of libboost statically linked in (after completely rebuilding them all for size)

Please test openxml

It contains these plugins:
applix babelfish clarisworks docbook eml freetranslation gdict gimp google hancom hrtext iscii kword latex loadbindings mif opendocument openwriter openxml opml paint passepartout pdb pdf presentation s5 sdw t602 urldict wikipedia wml xslfo

Note: the abisource svn has set the next tag to 2.8.0 so consider this the release candidate

[technosaurus]

I recompiled the only version of inklite I could find so it is statically linked with libgnomeprint and libgnomeprintui - now nothing needs those two


tired of files trying to open in vi or getting a blank terminal?

[ttuuxxx]

I was thinking since static apps is your strong point, Maybe a static Gnumeric? is that possible ? That's a very large app for something I never use or need and would reduce some bloat.
Thanks for all your abiword and now inkscape like statics.
ttuuxxx

Middle of last year this guy made up a new inkscape lite but never released it http://www2.bryceharrington.org:8080/drupal/inklite

[technosaurus]

I had difficulty compiling gnumeric development builds before. I think it required later builds of gtk and friends. If memory serves me I even edited the configure file to allow it to try and build anyhow, but I couldn't get it to finish the compile on 3.x or 4.x... maybe if I switch to 2.x now (somehow that seems odd, but thanks for keeping our old frankenstein boxes up to date ttuuxxx)

Note: I compiled the libwmf libraries to get better support for images in abiword but I never added it the corresponding plugin to my build script.

2.8 seems eminent so I may do some practice runs and also build the plugins that abiword won't let you have builtin (at least without hacking) in the mean time. This has been a really good experiment to learn about different gcc related optimizations. It will have to wait till I get back home on Monday though - I am puppyless for the weekend.

[technosaurus]

I had to delete inkscapelite - does anyone still have the latest patched source code?

[ttuuxxx]

maybe these ones?
http://puppylinux.ca/puppyfiles/sources/alphabetical/i/inkscapelite-0.36.3.tar.gz

hmmm another program I would like to see shrinked is Geany, being around 700kb pet or so, is kind of large, Even if features like compile was removed, well I do all my compiling in rxvt and have no need for it in a editor.
I've been using Geany 12 in 2.20 because its 200kb smaller pet.
ttuuxxx

[technosaurus]

The scintilla code highlighting is the biggest size contributor - maybe remove support for some seldom used languages? Barring that I can only get it down to a 650kb pet.

[stevesr0]

I really like abiword.

Today, I came up against the will not print landscape bug and found that it was supposed to be fixed in newer versions.

I installed the pet and voila, it prints landscape.

Thanks.

Steve

[technosaurus]

Just wanted to give an update on the state of abiword. I compiled 2.8.1 and it was horribly unusable so I will only post it if someone wants to help the abisource developers with debugging this new "stable" release - many regressions since the 2.7 development. Looking through the commits I don't see anything that explains the issues, but anything that requires a browser is broken (which is a lot), the pdf filter has regressed and other seemingly random segfaults. I need to check their bug tracker and file some bugs still. The only other difference is that I am now using 4.3X to compile. I need to check if different compile methods make any difference... anyhow at the moment expect the current abiword to remain.

[jakfish]

technosaurus--

I very much appreciate you keeping the puppy community up to date on all things abiword.

Even if the news may not be occasionally the best, it's still great that you're the lead on this.

Jake

[technosaurus]

Here's one to troubleshoot using all possible plugins builtin and upx'd just to make it fit in a forum post - I don't want anyone thinking that this is a usable version. It seems that most issues have to do with loading external programs. (this was working in 2.7.X)

These builtin plugins "should" work

applix babelfish bmp clarisworks docbook eml freetranslation garble gdict gimp google hancom hrtext iscii kword latex loadbindings mif opendocument openwriter openxml opml paint passepartout pdb pdf presentation s5 sdw t602 urldict wikipedia wml xslfo"

These are not supported as builtin so I am not testing them yet:

goffice mht ots wordperfect psion collab wmf aiksaurus mathview gda wpg rsvg