Re: [abiword-user] How to uninstall plugins

Thanks Ryan - turns out it was my fault *whince*

So, the problem was, I was putting Word docs in my webserver doc root
/var/www. I had turned on Indexes so I could browse the files I had
created, but unfortunately, the permissions on the directories Abiword
was creating were missing "world read" - so something like 751 instead
of 755. Probably a umask problem.

Anyway, once I 755'd the output directories, the images appeared -
they had been there the whole time, Apache just didn't have permission
to serve them. When I googled the problem, I came across ancient
threads where people really did have a problem with exporting images,
especially with Word 2003 documents. Combined with the libgsf error I
was getting, you can see how I jumped to the wrong conclusion.

So, mystery solved - hopefully the above will someday act as a "check
the power cord" for somebody with a similar lapse of common sense :)

Thanks again,

-- Jim

On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 5:57 PM, Ryan Pavlik <abiryan@ryand.net> wrote:
> You might want to upgrade your version of AbiWord - 2.4 is quite
> outdated now. I tested saving from the GUI with your document to HTML
> and I got a directory test.htm_files with all the images. (I had named
> the saved file test.htm) I know that there is an official fedora 8 2.6
> version, should be 2.6.4 or 2.6.3. (I tested with 2.6.4 on Ubuntu)
>
> If you upgrade and still have the problem, then something else is at play.
>
> Ryan
>
> Jim R. Wilson wrote:
>> Well, nevermind about removing the WordPerfect plugin, I was able to
>> do that by going into /usr/lib/AbiWord-2.4/plugins and removing
>> libAbiWordPerfect.so - that got rid of the libgsf error (similar to
>> instructions found in an archived email[1])
>>
>> I had thought that the libgsf was what was preventing the images from
>> working in my conversion from Word doc format. When I open the doc[2]
>> in abiword graphically, the images show fine, but when I convert to
>> say HTML, they disappear.
>>
>> What am I doing wrong? Is there a simple solution to have the html
>> converter grab the images properly? Thanks in advance for any help.
>>
>> [1] http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-user/2004/Mar/0050.html
>> [2] http://www.unitedweride.gov/Mobility_Mgmt_brochure.doc
>>
>> -- Jim R. Wilson (jimbojw)
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Jim R. Wilson <wilson.jim.r@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to convert Word documents using abiword on the command line
>>> and I'm getting this already well documented error:
>>>
>>> libgsf:msole-CRITICAL **: ole_get_block: assertion `block <
>>> ole->info->max_block' failed
>>>
>>> I've looked around, and so far it seems that I may be able to solve
>>> this by removing the WordPress plugin (i'm hoping).
>>>
>>> My questions are:
>>>
>>> 1) Has anyone successfully overcome this that can point me to a
>>> solution (google was of little help)
>>> 2) How do I uninstall/remove/disable a plugin (WordPerfect in particular)
>>> 3) Do I need to download and build libgsf from scratch then recompile
>>> abiword with the latest? I'm using Fedora core 8 with just a simple
>>> yum install to pick up the dependencies.
>>>
>>> Any help is appreciated, and I'm happy to read the manual if you can
>>> point me to it, thanks in advance :)
>>>
>>> -- Jim
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
>
> --
> Ryan Pavlik
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