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davids45 · Joined: 26 Nov 2006 Posts: 579 Location: Chatswood, NSW

G'day.

Abiword 2.6.4 is able to open MS 2007 docx format files whereas the Abi older versions in Pup cannot, or the pet plug-in to do it, I can't find.

Abiword seems not to want the lay person (like me) to install it in Linux, but to pass the job onto the "distribution".

Could "the distribution" create a Pup of 2.6.4 and its associated bits, please?

Abiword 2.6.4 is fine in XP, so I could use it in wine I suppose.

David S.

disciple · Posted: Thu 16 Oct 2008, 05:26 Post subject:

2.6.3 supports docx doesn't it?
So you could upgrade your Puppy or try just installing the .pet from the Puppy repository...

davids45 · Joined: 26 Nov 2006 Posts: 579 Location: Chatswood, NSW

G'day,
I thought it did too, but when I tried on a couple of Pup installs, both gave rubbish whereas my full & fresh 2.6.4 XP install read the docx file.
It may be just the plug-in for 2.6.3 I need then?
David S.

ttuuxxx · Posted: Fri 17 Oct 2008, 05:53 Post subject:

heres a free online converter
http://www.docx2doc.com/
ttuuxxx

disciple · Posted: Fri 17 Oct 2008, 19:52 Post subject:

I suspect you just need to install the "Abiword plugins" package from petget... it probably just isn't included in the Puppy iso.

malderson · Joined: 15 Nov 2007 Posts: 45 Location: Wisconsin, USA

I'm using Puppy 3.01 as a full HD install, and since I've got it tweaked the way I want it, I'd just as soon not upgrade. I would like to upgrade Abiword to a version that can handle docx files.

Is there a PET for Abiword 2.6.3 that will work on 3.01? The only one I find in the repositories is for Dingo; will that work in 3.01?

ecomoney · Posted: Wed 29 Apr 2009, 09:49 Post subject:

Do you guys realise the trouble you caused posting this.... Very Happy

trio · Posted: Sat 02 May 2009, 03:32 Post subject:

I got my existing abiword in 4.2 opens docx correctly & also on click..

first docx mime types pet from tuuxx from official 4.2 deep thought official patches&updates thread

and I use this plugin (pet below) also I downloaded the /usr/share/abiword-2.6 from official ubuntu jaunty deb (follow the link from abiword homepage)

that's all I did

trio · Posted: Sat 02 May 2009, 03:44 Post subject:

screenshot below> and I did download plugins from pet get, but somehow it didn't work

ttuuxxx · Posted: Sat 02 May 2009, 04:25 Post subject:

I don't get why your all doing that? have you tried the fix I made like over a month ago?
http://www.puppylinux.asia/tpp/ttuuxxx/puppy420/release/programs/abiword-2.6.3-updated.pet
and
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?mode=attach&id=16845
if you click on a docx file it should open up straight away.
ttuuxxx

trio · Posted: Sat 02 May 2009, 04:30 Post subject:

ttuuxxx · Posted: Sat 02 May 2009, 05:35 Post subject:

ecomoney · Posted: Sun 03 May 2009, 00:29 Post subject:

What Im saying Ttuxxx, is that these were the only guys on here who needed the "Upgrade" of Abiword to get the .DocX support, with the result that no one could open almost ALL Word Docs created on Windoze (except devs)....and a whole heap of trouble besides.

If Abiword had been a .pet, that had been compiled, released through .petget, tested, and the bugs ironed out there before it was included in the main Distro, a lot less people would be smarting now.

Same goes for the the CUPS and Seamonkey that was included having just been compiled.

I do understand that there is no warranty/is free/no responsibility on the part of the programmer etc

Just a thought for the future

ttuuxxx · Posted: Sun 03 May 2009, 00:52 Post subject:

Just a thought for the future, stop saying there is something wrong with Seamonkey when its running 100% perfect, It displays a security warning because a newer version is out. That is how its designed, its not a flaw, it works perfect. Mozilla designed it that way, to remove a security feature because it displays once and you can tick it so it doesn't display again is wrong,thats up to the user and does not warrant a "flaw", So take that out of your bag of complaints on here. Its bad enough with abiword and Cups, no need to add extras that aren't actually faults, I'm actually very proud of that Seamonkey I put into 4.2, a lot of work, effort, time went into it and also made me put Seamonkey on the same level as Firefox for once, it used to be on the bottom of list of browsers I liked, I hated the GUI,look and overall feel, now its just as good, if not better than a default Firefox install.
ttuuxxx

disciple · Posted: Sun 03 May 2009, 06:45 Post subject:

Since we're complaining about abiword again, I'll mention again that Abiword in 4.x has always tended to not display half the text in a document (at least .doc, I'm not sure about other formats). Around here the fact the version you blame Ttuuxxx for worked even less often than usual isn't even an issue, because it was broken in the first place Sad