Author Topic: Build Abiword 2.4.4 (Read 19018 times)

desertrat · « **Reply #15 on:** April 30, 2006, 11:53:09 pm »

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That's an interesting observation. I tried openbox (the default wm) and fluxbox, both behaved the same, ie oversized windows

IceWM also does it's best to restrict windows/dialogs size to screen size. So PITA stuff like the GTK file dialog (which always open at a huge size) are brought to heel and open to fit screen.

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so does xfce display the qt config menus correctly as well?

Still too large on icewm

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Meanie · « **Reply #16 on:** May 01, 2006, 09:34:45 am »

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I just finished compiling abiword 2.4.4 on my C3000 natively and was able to open my staroffice documents!
Meanie, does this version support printing to PDF? Previous versions of Abiword from official feeds segfaulted when doing printing of any kind. beta3 Abiword does print to PDF without segfaulting but the results are far from satisfactory as can be seen from the screenshots

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I think I figured out the problem. pdf support in abiword requires poppler which in turn needs libjpeg. I bet poppler was compiled without libjpeg because the configure script in poppler doesn't detect libjpeg even though its installed.

karlto · « **Reply #17 on:** May 01, 2006, 04:42:17 pm »

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so does xfce display the qt config menus correctly as well?

Yep, they work fine too.

Meanie · « **Reply #18 on:** May 03, 2006, 02:16:19 am »

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I just finished compiling abiword 2.4.4 on my C3000 natively and was able to open my staroffice documents!
Meanie, does this version support printing to PDF? Previous versions of Abiword from official feeds segfaulted when doing printing of any kind. beta3 Abiword does print to PDF without segfaulting but the results are far from satisfactory as can be seen from the screenshots

[ Invalid Attachment ] [ Invalid Attachment ]

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I think I figured out the problem. pdf support in abiword requires poppler which in turn needs libjpeg. I bet poppler was compiled without libjpeg because the configure script in poppler doesn't detect libjpeg even though its installed.
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ok, I got PDF plugin compiled and working now so I can import PDF documents into abiword. I still can't print, it crashes abiword, but that seems to be caused by missing lpr package. Does beta3 come with lpr?

desertrat · « **Reply #19 on:** May 03, 2006, 02:57:52 am »

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ok, I got PDF plugin compiled and working now so I can import PDF documents into abiword. I still can't print, it crashes abiword, but that seems to be caused by missing lpr package. Does beta3 come with lpr?

AFAICS lpr is not in the official feeds. You can get a workalike from cups (I believe it's in the contribs). But just "printing" to PS or PDF does not require lpr - does that work?

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Meanie · « **Reply #20 on:** May 03, 2006, 07:37:10 am »

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ok, I got PDF plugin compiled and working now so I can import PDF documents into abiword. I still can't print, it crashes abiword, but that seems to be caused by missing lpr package. Does beta3 come with lpr?
AFAICS lpr is not in the official feeds. You can get a workalike from cups (I believe it's in the contribs). But just "printing" to PS or PDF does not require lpr - does that work?

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printing in abiword crashes for me, even when i tried the new 2.4.2
this probably is a bug in rc1 and fixed in rc3. can you try out my 2.4.4 version and see if you can import pdf files and print to pdf?

[a href=\"http://zaurus.daemons.gr/menaie/pdaxrom/feed/abiword_2.4.4_armv5tel.ipk]http://zaurus.daemons.gr/menaie/pdaxrom/fe....4_armv5tel.ipk[/url]
http://zaurus.daemons.gr/menaie/pdaxrom/fe....1_armv5tel.ipk

you probably need poppler too if you havent already installed it.

desertrat · « **Reply #21 on:** May 03, 2006, 08:48:04 am »

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printing in abiword crashes for me, even when i tried the new 2.4.2
this probably is a bug in rc1 and fixed in rc3. can you try out my 2.4.4 version and see if you can import pdf files and print to pdf?

Printing to PS is OK, but printing to PDF still results in a mess just like before
Importing PDF works OK.

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Meanie · « **Reply #22 on:** May 03, 2006, 09:27:36 am »

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printing in abiword crashes for me, even when i tried the new 2.4.2
this probably is a bug in rc1 and fixed in rc3. can you try out my 2.4.4 version and see if you can import pdf files and print to pdf?
Printing to PS is OK, but printing to PDF still results in a mess just like before
Importing PDF works OK.

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drats
does saving as pdf work? it crashes on me
btw, which version of poppler did you use? did you use mine?

Meanie · « **Reply #23 on:** May 03, 2006, 09:31:01 am »

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printing in abiword crashes for me, even when i tried the new 2.4.2
this probably is a bug in rc1 and fixed in rc3. can you try out my 2.4.4 version and see if you can import pdf files and print to pdf?
Printing to PS is OK, but printing to PDF still results in a mess just like before
Importing PDF works OK.

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drats
does saving as pdf work? it crashes on me
btw, which version of poppler did you use? did you use mine?

desertrat · « **Reply #24 on:** May 03, 2006, 11:30:34 am »

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drats
does saving as pdf work? it crashes on me

Yep, but result is a mess exactly like printing to PDF

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btw, which version of poppler did you use? did you use mine?

Yours, downloaded from the above links. I note that you've compiled poppler with libjpeg support. Where can I get my grubby hands on the header and static lib for libjpeg? I tried compiling my own but failed miserably because the source is so old and apparently it knows nothing about ARMs.

As an aside, I tried using ps2pdf from a version of ghostscript (can't remember where I got it from) to convert the good ps output to a pdf, but it fails with some postscript error. Tried converting the same file on my desktop and it works fine. I shall have to look into recompiling a ghostscript for pdaxrom.

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scheck.r · « **Reply #25 on:** May 03, 2006, 01:06:08 pm »

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I shall have to look into recompiling a ghostscript for pdaxrom.

A litle off-topic but, at some point ghostscript is also worth compiling for pdaxrom because at some point, it's needed to convert PDF to DJVU files using djvutools.

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desertrat · « **Reply #26 on:** May 03, 2006, 01:34:43 pm »

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I shall have to look into recompiling a ghostscript for pdaxrom.
A litle off-topic but, at some point ghostscript is also worth compiling for pdaxrom because at some point, it's needed to convert PDF to DJVU files using djvutools.

Unfortunately the program which does the PDF->DJVU conversion, GSDjVu, has license terms that forbid the distribution of executables. See this for more info:

http://djvulibre.djvuzone.org/gsdjvu.html

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Meanie · « **Reply #27 on:** May 04, 2006, 10:22:24 am »

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drats
does saving as pdf work? it crashes on me
Yep, but result is a mess exactly like printing to PDF

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btw, which version of poppler did you use? did you use mine?
Yours, downloaded from the above links. I note that you've compiled poppler with libjpeg support. Where can I get my grubby hands on the header and static lib for libjpeg? I tried compiling my own but failed miserably because the source is so old and apparently it knows nothing about ARMs.

As an aside, I tried using ps2pdf from a version of ghostscript (can't remember where I got it from) to convert the good ps output to a pdf, but it fails with some postscript error. Tried converting the same file on my desktop and it works fine. I shall have to look into recompiling a ghostscript for pdaxrom.

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I used the same source but I configured with --enable-static --enable-shared options and then stole the generated libtool from poppler and hacked it for jpeg6b
also hacked the .pc file for poppler to create a libjpeg.pc file but poppler does not detect it. the configure in abiword found the new libjpeg.pc and compiled jpeg plugin without problems but poppler was a bitch and i had to hack poppler's configure script and to manually add in the correct settings so it would detect libjpeg properly and compile build it with jpeg support

anunakin · « **Reply #28 on:** May 04, 2006, 03:18:13 pm »

Nice job!

Meanie · « **Reply #29 on:** May 05, 2006, 02:27:59 am »

I have updated freetype to the latest .10 release and abiword does not crash anymore when saving as pdf
the document is still scrambled, but I will recompile poppler and abiword against the new freetype version and see if that fixes it. we will just have to wait and see now

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Author Topic: Build Abiword 2.4.4 (Read 19018 times)