Subject: Re: msword doc bug
From: Elizabeth (elizhg@rmci.net)
Date: Wed Jan 19 2000 - 00:26:19 CST
tried that one also, same error. it only works with an abw extension, at
least on xwindows
sam th wrote:
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> On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Elizabeth wrote:
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> > ah actually its abiword that gives me the error when i try to reopen it
> > after making changes and saving
>
> The problem is what I originally thought it was. Abiword saves the file
> with a .doc extension. However, it saves it in .abw format. Then, when
> another program, be it Abiword or MSWord, attempts to open the file, it
> will think that it is a word document. To solve the problem in abiword,
> when opening the file, change the type from automatically detected to
> Abiword. Then it will recognize the file correctly.
>
> developers - this is a bug. It could be solved the way I solved bug 682,
> (see my recent post) by giving an error message saying that the file was
> claiming it was the wrong type, but if we are going to claim that we
> auto-detect types, we should actually detect them correctly, and not just
> blindly believe the extension.
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> > > sam th wrote: > >
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> > > On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Elizabeth wrote:
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> > > > I have no problems initially opening an msword document with abiword,
> > > > but when i edit the file and resave it i cannot reopen the file it gives
> > > > me the error "Error importing file"
> > >
> > > The problem here is that what you think is a word format file, isn't.
> > > Abiword does not currently export files in word format. Thus, Word sees
> > > the extension, thinks it's in word format, and then discovers that it is
> > > not.
> > >
> > > > also if i save the file as an abw i have no problems, but i would like
> > > > to keep it in its own format.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Since word cannot import .abw files (at least not that I am aware of), I
> > > would reccomend using RTF to maintain communication between these two
> > > programs
> > >
> > > > Elizabeth
> > > > elizhg@rmci.net
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > sam th
> > > sytobinh@uchicago.edu
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> sam th
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