Hello World,
I quite like Abiword for it’s simplicity and how close it is to wordpad and I’d really like to keep using it, but I definitely need to fix it first.
The 2 main issues are:
1. Often times when I try to open a text document abiword will look like it’s launching for a split second, but it actually crashes and creates an extra file same name as the original but with the added termination .saved. Normally I just delete the .saved file and try to open the original again, usually works on the second try.
These created .saved files look identical to the original if I open them with abiword or even Libre(although they are significantly bigger in size), but if I open them with Kate on the other hand I notice they contain a bunch of extra stuff, here’s some pics, first the original opened with abi then with kate, and then the clone first with abi then with kate:
2. Second issue, as you may have noticed from the contents of the test file, after a couple of days of abi working normally(apart from issue 1, that was present from the start) since the last couple of days I seem to have lost the ability to save text formatting changes…
I will edit a text file(or create one from scratch, doesn’t matter) make some changes like bold, italics, colors, etc. it looks good, I close it, it ask me if I wanna save, I click yes, abi shuts down normally but it doesn’t save those changes. If I add/delete some text that does get saved, but the extra formatting stuff doesn’t…
Thing’s I’ve tried:
1. Installed libawb just in case it’s needed.
2. Uninstalled the regular version of abiword(3.0.5-5 from the extra repository) and installed the flatpak, same behavior.
3. Checked google to see if abiword has a debug mode so I can provide more info, couldn’t find anything like that.
(By debug mode I mean, for example, if you launch Lutris from the console with lutris -d
the console will start loging all kinds of stuff so you can maybe/hopefully figure out what is wrong.)
4. Obviously googled to see if anyone else had these issues, either I entered the wrong search terms or I am alone, in any case I couldn’t find anything similar.
So… I’m open to suggestions, help pretty please?
Thank you.