From: Ryan Pavlik (abiryan_at_ryand.net)
Date: Sat Mar 13 2004 - 23:18:55 EST
Marv Waschke wrote:
> I am running abiword 2.0.3 on my personal notebook where I do my
> personal writing-- a journal, the great american novel-- the usual. I
> don't like Times New Roman, don't know why, don't care why. Palatino
> Linotype looks good to me and kerns well on AbiWord, a program that I
> love.
>
> But there are problems. I think they derive from my choice of fonts,
> but I could be way off base. Lines disappear from my display. Very
> bad. I am never sure if the damn flaky piece o' crap has dropped data
> or what. I am not kidding that I love Abiword, but I understand
> people who dump Abiword.
>
> I remember when the evil empire, MS Word, was flaky in the same way.
> When MS Word was floundering against WordPerfect and several other
> competitors whose names I have forgotten, it had the same kind of
> problems and MS learned a lesson: they started paying attention to
> problems that made users soil their underwear.
>
> OK. Enough crap.I opened an issue, but no one responded.
> Understandable. Everyone has priorities. I can work it myself. Can
> anyone point me in the right direction, give me hints, to help fix
> this? I am an experienced C++ programmer, more on UNIX than Windoz,
> even though the most convenient systems I have for development are
> Windows. Any advice will be appreciated.
>
> Marv
>
>
Get 2.0.5. The word on the street is that it fixes this elusive line
disappearing bug. I've experienced this bug too, but as I'm not
skilled with this code, I couldn't fix it myself. The other developers
haven't been able to reproduce it as far as I know. However, like I
said, apparently it's fixed in 2.0.5. It's working fine for me so far,
knock on particle board.
Try to be a bit easy on the developers: nobody is getting paid for this,
all this is volunteer. They want a workable, useable product just as
much as you do, if not more. However, if they can't reproduce a bug
(and this is common for odd Windows bugs, and speaking as the owner of
one Windows machine that seems to expose all of them, as well as one
that exposes none, I know...), they can't fix it.
I doubt fonts have anything to do with it, I've seen this bug in older
versions in Times New Roman as well. If anything, I think it's a
graphics card and driver issue, as the only machine that acts oddly for
me is also the one with the lousiest, flakiest video card. Laptop video
cards may be more prone to exposing this sort of thing.
If you felt daring, you could join the chat (irc.gnome.org #abiword) and
try to get up to speed on the codebase enough to go bug hunting, as long
as you have a machine that shows it. However, none of this really
matters if 2.0.5 really fixes it!
And now I'll send this email before I type any more.
Thanks for being an active user of AbiWord!
Ryan
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