Re: Opening Files


Subject: Re: Opening Files
From: sam th (sam@bur-jud-118-039.rh.uchicago.edu)
Date: Wed Mar 15 2000 - 07:59:45 CST


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On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Desmond Coughlan wrote:

> sam th wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> > > Any ideas ?
>
> > What it looks like you are doing is saving the document and then opening
> > it in text format. If you specify that the document is in abiword format,
> > then it should open correctly.
>
> Nope ... I save it without any extension, and get the code characters.
> I save it with an *.abw extension, and get them, and even when I use
> 'Automatically Detect", I get them ...

Have you tried "AbiWord (.abw)" as the opening format? I know the
autodetect code has gotten lots better (as in it now exists) since the
last public release.

If that doesn't work, then I'm stumped. :-<

PS - i've cc'ed this to the developer mailing list.

           
                                     sam th
                                     sytobinh@uchicago.edu
                                http://bur-jud-118-039.rh.uchicago.edu
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