Re: AbiWord

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Posted by kuehnm
2006-01-07 17:34:38

Graham,

Given what you said, I decided to test it with a fairly large file, the manuscript of a book I wrote with word four years ago (about 540 pages, with many footnotes). The doc file is about 1.9 MB. Word 2003 opened it without missing a beat, about 7 seconds or so, I then saved it to rtf, opened it with Word, which took about twice as long, but it presented no problem. The rtf file is about 2.44 MB.

Trying to open it with AbiWord was impossible. It took more than 120 seconds before the hour glass disappeared. But clicking anywhere on the document pane or trying to save it would freeze the program every time. I tried five times, rebooting in between, etc.

Manfred

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