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[technosaurus]

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]

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_pet/abiword-2.7.6-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

[ttuuxxx]

its missing libwv-1.2.so.3
ttuuxxx

[ttuuxxx]

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]

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/abiword/wv-1.2.4-i486-1sl.pet
ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/puppylinux/pet_packages-4/wv-1.2.5-pup4.pet

[ttuuxxx]

This is the full libwv I compiled, it has the dev files also. Its the same number it was asking for.
ttuuxxx

[technosaurus]

@ttuuxxx in ~/.AbiSuite/AbiWord.Profile
...
<Fonts include="0">
<!--Here you can put a list of fonts to limit the fonts that appear in the font UI:
<Face name="some face"/>
The include attribute of 'Fonts' controls the significance of the list:
include="1" - limit fonts to those listed
include="0" - exclude the listed fonts from the system font list
-->
</Fonts>
</AbiPreferences>

I assume that I can put the blacklisted fonts here or preferably in /usr/share/abiword-2.7/system.profile

[ttuuxxx]

[technosaurus]

This should do it
....

<Fonts include="0">
<Face name="cursor"/>
<Face name="linux8x8"/>
<Face name="linux8x16"/>
<Face name="micro"/>
</Fonts>

</AbiPreferences>

[scheck.r]

I find this bug about fonts interesting.
http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=11953

[technosaurus]

I tried out the latest PyAbiword bindings and included a Sugar (OLPC) style

for some strange reason it won't work with plugins installed, but it is very similar to the other build for small screens

I haven't checked to see if it works with Barry's tinypy yet

[technosaurus]

so now I am manually editing the commands that make spits out to selectively choose which files are statically linked. For now I am just statically linking libabiword and libwv, but may decide to statically link enchant if default puppy doesn't use it for anything else

I also compiled xz today (statically against dietlibc its actually smaller than the shared build in puppy) compression is slower but decompression is faster than bz2 and comparable to gz ... should be the default format for pets in 5 series IMHO.... anyhow long story short I got abiword small enough to fit on the forum... just not as a pet...yet

xz is basically the same program as lzma (I had to do bz2 because the forum won't take .xz - I think it actually got bigger)

[ttuuxxx]

technosaurus man o man, lol you can't just introduce new formats into puppy without supplying a way to extract them, it makes your package 100% useless for about 90% of the people, xarchiver/File-roller on 2.14X can not open this xz extenstion, I think actually the only puppy known to open that extension is slackerpup and thats a very early testing state. a better Idea would either explain what has to be updated etc to use this format and if its the kernel then forget it, lol A nice feature about File-Roller is that you can split packages, maybe something like that might work better. Right now I'm trying to compile xz-utils to see if that will work.
ttuuxxx

[ttuuxxx]

Ok guys if your running 2.14Xv8, Just install this pet which includes the devs and then drag the above file and drop on on File-Roller icon on the desktop, Then it will extract and it this version of abiword works on 2.14X-v8, Haven't figured out the spell-check yet and would be nice if the DocX plugin was included
very nice size
and great work techno
ttuuxxx

[ttuuxxx]

I can get spelling check to work, I even used parts from 4.2.
any ideas? maybe a package ?
Thanks and great work
ttuuxxx