abiword-user Mailing List Archive: Re: Why are characters not sh

From: Peter Robson <peter_at_robsonpg.demon.co.uk>
Date: Sun Apr 03 2005 - 17:34:46 CEST

On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 14:43:09 -0600, Ryan Pavlik <abiryan@ryand.net> wrote:

>
> Peter Robson wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> I've just installed AbiWord on W98SE to evaluate it for a friend who
>> doesn't want to buy MS Word. It looks good apart from no characters
>> show on screen! I can see table boundaries. I can see space markers. I
>> can see clip art. I can misspell words and see the red underline. I
>> can save them as a text file and open it and see them. And, no, I'm
>> not looking at white characters on a white background. Highlighting
>> has no effect. I've never had this problem with any other application.
>>
>> Apologies (as an AbiWord newbie) if the answer is blindingly obvious or
>> if the question has been answered many times before (but I did look
>> back over the last six months or so in the archive and couldn't spot
>> anything.)
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> Peter
>>
> Try going to Documents, New Window. Does any text show there? What
> fonts are you using? What version of AbiWord are you using? This has
> happened to me at times (I do Windows bug testing), but it is always a
> temporary problem for me that a new view (created with Documents, New
> Window) does not exhibit. Some video cards also have caused a few
> incompatibilities, have you tried upgrading your video card driver?
> What model is your video card?
>

To return to the original topic, the rest of the responses having gone
rather OT, thanks for the suggestions but no progress so far. I've tried
various combinations of the things suggested but to no avail. My video
card driver is up to date. As AbiWord 2.2.5 is the only application
exhibiting this problem, I think I have to look to AbiWord for a solution.

I note that, unlike MS Word and the other text applications I have here,
AbiWord uses XML for its file format. What, if anything, could cause my PC
to wrongly interpret the XML and make characters invisible?

In case it helps someone far more expert than I am, this is the content of
a file I have just produced:-

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE abiword PUBLIC "-//ABISOURCE//DTD AWML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.abisource.com/awml.dtd">
<abiword template="false" styles="unlocked" version="1.9.1"
xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" fileformat="1.1"
xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"
xmlns:math="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"
xmlns:awml="http://www.abisource.com/awml.dtd"
xmlns="http://www.abisource.com/awml.dtd"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xml:space="preserve"
props="dom-dir:ltr; document-footnote-restart-section:0;
document-endnote-type:numeric; document-endnote-place-enddoc:1;
document-endnote-initial:1; lang:en-GB;
document-endnote-restart-section:0; document-footnote-restart-page:0;
document-footnote-type:numeric; document-footnote-initial:1;
document-endnote-place-endsection:0">

<metadata>
<m key="dc.format">application/x-abiword</m>
<m key="abiword.generator">AbiWord</m>
</metadata>
<history version="1" edit-time="202" last-saved="1112537875"
uid="b3adcb5e-a44a-11d9-99ea-e51c327e778b">
<version id="1" started="1112537875"
uid="2c28e23a-a44b-11d9-99ea-e51c327e778b" auto="0"/>
</history>
<styles>
<s type="P" name="Normal" followedby="Current Settings"
props="text-indent:0in; margin-top:0pt; margin-left:0pt;
font-stretch:normal; line-height:1.0; text-align:left;
bgcolor:transparent; lang:en-GB; dom-dir:ltr; margin-bottom:0pt;
text-decoration:none; font-weight:normal; font-variant:normal;
color:000000; text-position:normal; font-size:12pt; margin-right:0pt;
font-style:normal; widows:2; font-family:Times New Roman"/>
</styles>
<pagesize pagetype="A4" orientation="portrait" width="210.000000"
height="297.000000" units="mm" page-scale="1.000000"/>
<section props="page-margin-footer:0.5000in; page-margin-header:0.5000in;
page-margin-right:1.0000in; page-margin-left:1.0000in;
page-margin-top:1.0000in; page-margin-bottom:1.0000in">
<p style="Normal"><c props="lang:en-GB">This is an example of a document
in which the characters do not show on the screen.</c></p>
<p style="Normal"></p>
</section>
</abiword>

Any comments and help will be greatly appreciated. TIA Peter

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