Re: Problems with normal.awt

Hub,

Thanks, but I'm not sure you are correct! The following is from the AbiWord
User Guide
(http://www.abisource.com/help/en-US/howto/howtonormaltemplate.html)

"How to change default styles

When AbiWord opens a new document, a number of styles and other settings are
automatically set. AbiWord comes with built-in values for these, but you can
also change them if you would prefer a different look. You do this by
editing a file called normal.awt -- the normal template.
There are two kinds of normal template: user and system. A user normal
template is found in your home directory, and only applies to documents you
create. A system normal template is found in the directory where AbiWord is
installed, and applies to all documents created by AbiWord on that system.
AbiWord will follow a user normal template if one is installed. If not, it
follows the system template, if one is installed. If no templates are
installed, it uses built-in values.

Finding the Normal Template

The normal template must be in the correct place for AbiWord to make use of
it. On Linux, the user template should be in the .AbiSuite/templates
directory in your home directory. (.AbiSuite is a hidden directory, so it
will not normally be displayed. However, if you are in your home directory,
you can move to it by typing its name into the Save or Open dialog.) On
single-user Windows systems, it is in the templates folder in the folder
where you installed AbiWord."

My 'normal.awt' is in C:\Program Files\AbiSuite2\templates\

I have also tried it with a copy in C:\Documents and
Settings\Peter\AbiSuite\ with no luck!

Regards,
Peter

----- Original Message -----
From: "Hubert Figuiere" <hfiguiere@teaser.fr>
To: "Peter Anderson" <peter.anderson@ozemail.com.au>
Cc: "abisource list" <abiword-user@abisource.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 5:35 PM
Subject: Re: Problems with normal.awt

> On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 17:25 +1100, Peter Anderson wrote:
> > I have just installed AbiWord 2.0.14 on a Windows XP Home machine. I
> > have
> > made changes to the 'normal.awt' file and saved it. I have then
> > closed
> > AbiWord and re-started it. New documents do NOT reflect the style
> > changes
> > made to normal.awt. However, I can import 'normal.awt' and the
> > changes are
> > applied to the current document.
> >
> > Is there any way to bind normal.awt to new documents or is this a bug?
>
> It is not a bug, it is a feature. Each document contains all the styles
> he own. This is for portability reason. What if you give the document to
> someone who does not have a normal.awt that has the same styles ? It
> does not change.
>
> If you want to reapply these changes, then you have to re-import style
> from the document to the document you want to change. If you have
> several, then you have to do that for each.
>
>
> Hub
> --
> Crazy French - http://www.figuiere.net/hub/
>

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Received on Tue Nov 30 07:51:39 2004