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Hi, I am attending community college and sometime I use the Microsoft Office to check out my grammar. I was hoping AbiWord comes with grammar checking when I would use it anywhere. Any idea how I have it in AbiWord or how soon anyone can make it happen? Thank you.

I installed a fresh copy of AbiWord 2.6 (english only version) onto my desktop. I opened it and the menu is english cause thats the only language it has. But if I write something, as soon as I hit "Enter", a window pops up and says: "Could nor load the dictionary for the German (Switzerland) [de-CH] language." I use Win XP in german (Switzerland).

The same happens if I install the full version. Then the menu is in german but the popup appears anyhow.

I don't know if thats a bug in AbiWord itself but I guess its something with the way the Portable version handles the language.

EDIT

When typing a text - or even when copying and pasting a text from another application - the signs are transformed into other signs (from a different language?) - making the text unreadable. How can I get rid of this problem?

edit: This problem seems to be linked to the "Times New Roman"- and "Arial"-font. However, the font works flawlessly with Microsoft Word. Any advice?

I run Sunbird from a dedicated data partition and run several XP's from the same HD using bootitng partition and boot manager.

Suddenly Sunbird couldn't remember the hour being set in a new appointment and would always change it to 11:00.

I found that this only happened from one of the XP's.

I narrowed it down to this:

It happens if the Windows Clock's "Automatically Adjust Clock for Daylight Savings" check box is unchecked!

Hard to believe. At least checking it again fixed the problem.

How do I make AbiWord Portable use Firefox Portable or
OperaTor Portable instead of system default browser?
(eg. to check for updates, etc..)

Thanks

Alright, so I spent like 5 minutes trying to figure out what I was doing wrong in passing the command line parameter to change the background colour for SumatraPDF Portable through the AppNamePortable.ini file. Then I decided to try to disable the splash, which didn't work either. I didn't check the source much yet, but I'm thinking that it's not reading the INI file properly, or not properly reading all the variables and applying them.

Thought I'd point that out. Some confirmation from others would be good, too.

This refers to an issue I posted at
https://portableapps.com/news/2008-01-18_-_sumatra_pdf_portable_0.8

John Haller asked to continue the thread here instead.

The last post was by rab040ma:

Are you sure you only have the one copy of SumatraPDF.exe on your hard drive (the one you are testing)? Can you use WinMD5sum on it (and the SumatraPdfPortable.exe) and paste the values, so we can be sure we are on the same page?

So here is the MD5 sum of my SumatraPDFPortable.exe:

81f553dd62c9ec324ec54c1ac5dd502e

This is the sum of SumatraPDF.exe:

Hi @all,

after booting Win/XP from a CD-ROM. I could not use Abiword in this jailed environment, because the menus, comboboxes and even entryfields are not shown
correctly.

If I start Abiword from a full blown installed Win/XP the program behaves normally.

Do I miss some fonts or dll's? I use the ultimate boot cd from windows (UBCD4WIN) Ver. 3.0.6 and an english version of Win/XP Professional. Abiword is the latest one (2.4.6) with german language pack.

Any advice would be very appreciated.

Woke up this morning and not only were all my entries gone but when i click to make a new task nothing happens. Am i screwed or is there a way to get my data back so that i can reinstall Sunbird?

Version: 0.8 Portable Revision 2

The release of SumatraPDF Portable 0.8 (Rev 2) seems to have a bug since there was an extension change on the settings file.

The old launcher for SumatraPDF 7.0 and below was handling a sumatrapdfprefs.txt file, but in the new release [0.8] SumatraPDF stores its settings in sumatrapdfprefs.dat. The new launcher isn't accomodating for the new file type, and therefore sumatrapdfprefs.dat is not being copied to the data directory on close.