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AbiWord: Open Office compatibility

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on March 28, 2006 - 10:25am

The blurb for AbiWord says:

Portable AbiWord ... has the ability to read and write a number of document types including Microsoft Word, Word Perfect, OpenOffice.org, RTF, HTML, Palm and more.

I've downloaded it, and it doesn't seem to recognise .odt as an extension. I've tried using "open with" on a .odt file, and also selecting "all files" from the "open" menu in AbiWord itself, but both times it just made it crash. How do you make it open .odt files, if it really can? That's what I've downloaded it for.

Thanks!

AbiWord: Associating itself with .abw?

Submitted by Bruce Pascoe on February 15, 2006 - 6:43pm

Is there any way to get Portable AbiWord to stop automatically associating itself with .abw and .zabw files? I keep deleting the association, but it comes back every time I launch AbiWord. I don't particularly like the idea of having files associated with a transient application--especially since the drive letter of the USB drive may change over time, even on the same computer.

AbiWord: DefaultSaveFormat=".rtf" not working

Submitted by albator on February 2, 2006 - 7:04pm

Hi, I wanted to apply a default format saving options to portable abiwords. I have been informed to use the following trick:
//
You can go edit your
AbiWord.Profile file and add the
following line to the _custom_ scheme

DefaultSaveFormat=".rtf"

where .rtf is the
common extension of the format you want.
//

I did, but every time I lauch portable abiwords, the abiword.profile file seem to be restored ? May you help me getting this tweak to work ? I suggest to include the info in the next readme if it possible. Indeed, many people would like to set the default save format.

Tha

AbiWord: WOW!

Submitted by justin on February 1, 2006 - 3:41pm

I just want to say how pleased I am with PortableAbiWord. It runs great off my computer and my USB drive. I recently added alot of the optional plugins from the website (mostly for the OpenDocument plugin), and they work seamlessly as well. Thanks alot!

-Justin

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