Re: AbiWord on the Web

I agree completely.

Michael A. Peters wrote:
>
> On 01/12/2005 07:45:41 PM, Ryan Pavlik wrote:
>
>> <snip>
>> I'd just like to add that AbiWord works great with PDFCreator (
>> http://pdfcreator.sf.net ) and I use it daily. This is not a
>> convincing reason to use OO.o :)
>
>
> On another note - in Linux, AbiWord prints PDF just fine through the
> gnome-print stuff.
>
> Earlier last year there was a bug where some fonts would not display
> properly (gibberish instead) - but that wasn't an AbiWord problem, the
> same fonts did not properly display in PDF printed from Epiphany either.
>
> The font foundry gave me permission to give the font to the gnome print
> people, and now it works (apparently the font wasn't exactly in ttf
> compliance)
>
> Early in fc3 there was another pdf print bug related to international
> characters (I use AbiWord primarily for assignments in Spanish class) -
> but that seems to working now too (I print to PDF because then I can
> print it from Windows if I do something on my machine to break
> printing, which happens sometimes because I play with rawhide packages.
> Unfortunately AbiWord for Windows doesn't print well to my printer, it
> doesn't do the page breaks correctly)
>
> But anyway - I think printing to PDF should be a facility of the OS
> (either free as it is in OS X or Gnome - or with an add-on package like
> in Windows), and not a facility of the application.
>
> Apps should have as little code as possible imho to make them easier to
> maintain, and should not therefore do things the OS should do.
>
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