Re[2]: [Fwd: HOW TO OPEN ABI WORD DOC WITH OTHER PROGRAM ?]

Alan wrote:
>> AbiWord supports RTF as an exchange format.
>> I cannot think of a WordProcessor that you cannot use this with.
>> In principle AbiWord XML would be readable by any
>> application that really supports XML, but I don't forsee MS
>> offering serious XML support anytime soon. (As far as I can
>> tell, IE still cannot open XHTML pages, for goodness sake.)

On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, "John M. Porter" apparently wrote:
> You say that you can't think of a word processor I cannot
> use with AbiWord. However, I tried to open an AbiWord
> document someone sent me but could not open it with:
> Word
> WordPerfect
> OpenOffice or
> Notepad
> Am I missing something, or is it impossible to open an AbiWord document with
> another word processor?

Do you know about file formats?
What I said is that AbiWord supports RTF as an exchange
format. But the person saving a (new) file will have to
choose this format. Such a file will have a name ending
in .doc or .rtf. If you are creating the file, you can do
this. If someone else did, perhaps you can ask them to do
this.

If you need to read a file whose name ends in .abw, then
until word processors offer better XML support or better
AbiWord support, you will have to open it in AbiWord. Of
course that just means 2 minutes to download and 2 minutes
to install: it's small, simple, and fast. Here is the link:
http://www.abisource.com/download/index.phtml
In your case, just click where it says Microsoft Windows.

hth,
Alan Isaac

PS While a .abw file should open in Notepad, you will see
a lot of markup in addition to the text. Generally you will
not want that.

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Received on Wed Jan 11 02:46:43 2006