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Re: Setting a permanent foreground/background color combination

Leon P. Stedman — 2013-05-07T23:51:56


I don't think that it is possible to change the screen colours without 
also changing the colours which will print out. If you change the 
back-ground colour a colour printer will print that colour onto white 
paper.

In addition to your own problem, changing the screen colour would be 
useful when using coloured paper to get some idea of what the effect 
would be. But I do not think that this can be done other than by changing 
the back-ground back to white before printing.

Leon Stedman




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Setting a permanent foreground/background color combination

2013-05-07T08:57:36

Hello

I really hope someone out there helps me with this, because I am going crazy trying to find the way to set a permanent foreground/background color combination on Abiword.
I succeed in setting the background color, but for the foreground color I must resort to changing the font color, which I don't want, because this setting will be saved with the document. The problem is that I need light text colors, because I prefer a dark background (eye problems), and if I set the text foreground color as white or yellow, the people I send the document to will have problems in reading the text. Of course, I could change the text color every time before sending the file, but this is a nuisance.
What I am looking for is a way of setting the text/background colors permanently, so I can read the documents comfortably on the screen. Some word processors offer a very good option for this (like Kingsoft Writer, where you can set your own themes and switch between them).
So, how can I do this in Abiword? It is very impor

Re: Question concerning to locale direction detection

Genghis Khan — 2013-04-24T05:05:49

Yes, I understand that GTK is, eventually, the one who is managing and
detecting directions of widgets. I am not a developer, but my guess is
that Abiword asks/retrieves the data of widget alignment from GTK, is
it correct? If so, where code that is responsible to such scenario can
be found?

Regards,
--GK.


On Mon, 22 Apr 2013 10:09:25 +0200
"J.M. Maurer" <uwog< at >uwog.net> wrote:

Re: Question concerning to locale direction detection

J.M. Maurer — 2013-04-22T08:09:25

As far as I know, we don't recognize the directions widgets should be in
ourselves: GTK does that part for us.

We do recognize the direction ourselves in the main editting canvas
ofcourse.

Cheers,
  Marc


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Re: Question concerning to locale direction detection

Genghis Khan — 2013-04-22T05:20:39

I sent an update for Hebrew translation to Chris (aka cjl);  What I
am interested in, by writing down at this list, is to know how does
AbiWord recognize the direction of GTK+ widget (GUI) - Where is the
relevant code?

On Thu, 18 Apr 2013 10:55:47 -0400
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Re: Question concerning to locale direction detection

Simon Larochelle — 2013-04-18T14:55:47

Are you trying to translate the interface in a new language (in which
language)? Or do you want to make your documents in RTL direction by
default?

Simon Larochelle

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Re: Applying modified styles in Abiword 2.86

Alberto Cabello Sánchez — 2013-04-15T09:56:53

On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 02:55:29PM +0530, Prashant L Rao wrote:

That seems to be weird (and annoying). In 2.8.2, some lines are added to the
document, like this:

<styles>
<s followedby="Current Settings" name="Normal" type="P" props="font-weight:normal; font-family:Times New Roman; margin-top:0pt; font-style:italic; margin-left:0pt; widows:2; font-variant:normal; text-indent:0in; margin-bottom:0pt; text-decoration:none; bgcolor:transparent; margin-right:0pt; color:000000; font-size:12pt; line-height:1.0; text-align:left; font-stretch:normal"/>
</styles>

Does 2.86 version set properties to every element (section, p, etc...)?

Re: Applying modified styles in Abiword 2.86

Prashant L Rao — 2013-04-15T09:25:29

Hi, Alberto,

Thanks for the prompt response.

I tried what you suggested and it does not work on Abiword 2.86. Until
and unless I reapply the style to each and every paragraph or heading,
the changes do not occur.

Regards

Prashant L Rao


On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Alberto Cabello Sánchez
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Re: Applying modified styles in Abiword 2.86

Alberto Cabello Sánchez — 2013-04-15T09:11:47

On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 02:05:36PM +0530, Prashant L Rao wrote:

I use Abiword 2.8.2 and it does exactly what you want, just don't select any
text or "Apply" changes:

Format 
  `-> Create and Modify Styles
        `-> Modify (select your style first)
              `-> Paragraph (e. g.)

Then do your changes, Ok, Ok, Close and you're done. It changes all the text
having the modified style.

Applying modified styles in Abiword 2.86

Prashant L Rao — 2013-04-15T08:35:36

Hi,

If you modify a style such as Heading 1 or Normal and then apply the
same, it only affects the currently selected text. In order to make
the changes document-wide, you have to manually select all relevant
paragraphs/instances of the style and apply the revised style.

From examining the .abw file in a text editor, I noticed that Abiword
seems to define the style every time that it is applied in a file
rather than doing so once at the top of the file as is the case with
CSS stylesheets and the like (this is more like using <span> tags in
the HTML body). That's probably why this happens.

Right now, the only way I could figure out to speed up things was to
open the .abw in a text editor and use find and replace to modify the
changed properties across the document.

It would be great if Abiword would apply a modified style across the document.

Regards

Prashant L Rao
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Question concerning to locale direction detection

Genghis Khan — 2013-04-14T18:32:27

Hello,

I am not certain if this is the proper mailing list to discuss on this
issue.  I have not sent this message to abiword-dev because I merely
want ask for a certain part in AbiWord source code.

I have read the last paragraph at the following page
http://abisource.com/help/en-US/howto/howtotranslation.html

"But a better solution is to set the translation for the Gtk (not
AbiWord) msgid "default:LTR" to be msgstr "default:RTL". This single
setting modifies the "outer" directionality, influencing the position
of widgets within containers and the default direction of all text."


May someone please bother to point out a reference to the code that is
responsible to the detection of "default:RTL" in gtk20.mo file?

Re: Page breaks

Simon Larochelle — 2013-04-14T13:45:01

I am assuming you are talking about the normal layout view. This view
only shows the main body of a page (that is, without the margins, the
header and the footer). It will show white space at the bottom of a
page if there is still space available on that page. Abiword does not
have a mode that removes these white spaces.

Simon

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Page breaks

Bruce Fox — 2013-04-13T11:32:37

I am running AbiWord 2.8.6 on Windows XP. The one thing I don't like 
about AbiWord is the way it handles page breaks. Whereas MS Word simply 
inserts a line in the text to indicate a page break, AbiWord handles 
page breaks with both a line and an empty space. I find this confusing. 
Any way to overcome it?
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Re: Lost file

Mark Richardson — 2013-04-05T23:57:09

Roy, my memory is hazy, but there is usually a backup file (".bak" 
extension) generated through the auto-save setting (see the "Documents" 
tab under the Preferences menu). I seem to recall that this file would 
vanish once you saved the latest version of the document you're working 
on (depending on the length of time you've set for auto-save). I'm not 
sure what happens to the .bak file if you haven't enabled auto-save. 
Regardless, the .bak file should appear in whatever directory holds your 
abiword docs by default. Be sure to check there.

On the other hand, maybe something else is involved here. You sound 
unsure of whether you saved a blank document under the same name. But 
you would know for sure, since you'd get a warning about overwriting a 
document with the same name. If you don't remember okaying that, the 
blank document and the previous long document might be saved in 
different directories--assuming you manually saved on or the other in a 
directory different from the default one. Time to

Lost file

Roy Hamaoki — 2013-04-05T22:21:24

Hi.  I hope someone can help me.  I have lost a very lengthy Abiword document. I think what may have happened is that I have "saved" a blank document over it under the same name.  Is there any way to recover the original document?  Is there any backup of the documents somewhere?  (I hope)

Thanks in advance 

Roy

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Windows Mail Merge Syntax

timlev — 2013-02-01T01:58:37

Hello, could anyone help me with the correct syntax for mail merge in
Windows versions of Abiword?
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Re: rejected 'unsubscribe' request

J.M. Maurer — 2013-01-31T20:53:16

It should not. If you still have problem unsubscribing, then please
contact me off-list on this email address.

  Marc

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Re: trouble inserting pictures

Ron Schwiesow — 2013-01-30T05:34:01

Thanks for the suggested workaround. It helps. I need to adjust the
text box to the picture before saving or else the picture distorts to
fill the box as it did to fill the page.


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rejected 'unsubscribe' request

Donald Miller — 2013-01-29T18:32:19

Hello Abiword-user

Why does abiword-user-request< at >abisource.com now
reject 'unsubscribe' request? I'm busy with other things.

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Re: trouble inserting pictures

Bob Hinds — 2013-01-29T17:20:29

I am using Abiword 2.8.2 in an Ubuntu 10.04.4 installation and have
the same experience when inserting a picture directly into the
document.

For me it works out much better to insert a "Text Box" and then insert
a picture inside the "Text Box".

Doing it that way maintains the picture's shape and size after saving it.


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trouble inserting pictures

Ron Schwiesow — 2013-01-28T07:18:35

OS Debian 6.0.6 Squeeze, abiword 2.8.2, downloaded as Debian
package.

When I insert JPG pictures, they are stretched and distorted to full
page length after the file is saved and reopened. This also happens if
the document is saved as PDF. JPG seems preferred to PNG for photos for
smaller files, so I haven't tried PNG.

Also, I cannot resize pictures with the mouse while maintaining aspect
ratio.

Tried FAQ and back 3 years in the archives without finding help. Tried
inserting page break after picture with no improvement. Web search gave
no useful results.

Ron
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