Re: Problems getting AbiWord 2.0 to run in KDE 3.2/MacOSX (fwd)

From those errors I'd guess you are missing large chunks of GTK.

Problems with KWord although coincidental indicate a problem with KWord
and aspell and the KWord (or aspell) developers are the people likely to
have any idea why this would happen.

The characters coming up as blank square would be because of missing fonts
and may be related to old assumptions about having 'Times New Roman'.
You could try changing the default font or making sure you have Times New
Roman.
The free Microsoft Fonts (msfonts) are available in various places on the
internet, which might help.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/corefonts/
http://avi.alkalay.net/software/msfonts/

Is there not a simpler way than fink to do this?
(I really dont care how inelegant packagers think other solutions are so
long as they work, as a Mac user I expect you can appreciate that
sentiment.)

My knowledge of Abiword is limited particularly when it comes to the Mac
version, Hub is the expert so if he says fink is the problem then it is.
Unfortunately there really isn't much more I can suggest, sorry.

- Alan

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 19:10:31 -0500
From: Roger Scow <rscow@mac.com>
To: Alan Horkan <horkana@maths.tcd.ie>
Subject: Re: Problems getting AbiWord 2.0 to run in KDE 3.2/MacOSX

ran sudo apt-get aspell, and the result was 1) abiword starts, but I
can't type in, all characters come up as blank squares. Some of the
icons are missing. 2) Oddly, KWord does start now, which was not the
case before. It would try to start, but it simply timed out.

This is the type of error message I get, then the program runs, and
Konsole is unavailable until I ^C.

(AbiWord-2.0:26675): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to add a widget with
type GtkToggleButton to a container of type GtkVBox, but the widget is
already inside a container of type GtkToolbar, the GTK+ FAQ at
http://www.gtk.org/faq/ explains how to reparent a widget.

(AbiWord-2.0:26675): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid cast from
`GtkToggleButton' to `GtkImage'

(AbiWord-2.0:26675): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkimage.c: line 937
(gtk_image_get_storage_type): assertion `GTK_IS_IMAGE (image)' failed

(AbiWord-2.0:26675): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkimage.c: line 937
(gtk_image_get_storage_type): assertion `GTK_IS_IMAGE (image)' failed

(AbiWord-2.0:26675): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkimage.c: line 937
(gtk_image_get_storage_type): assertion `GTK_IS_IMAGE (image)' failed

(AbiWord-2.0:26675): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Can not open pixbuf loader
module file '/sw/etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders': No such file or
directory

(AbiWord-2.0:26675): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Error loading XPM image
loader: Image type 'xpm' is not supported

Looks like I'm missing some key components....

Roger

On Jul 29, 2004, at 4:17 PM, Alan Horkan wrote:

>
>> I would really like to get abiword up and running. Any suggestions?
>
> apt-get aspell ???
>
> if this answer is of help be sure to let the list know that you have
> solved the problem so that no one else will need to send an answer.
>
> - Alan

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