why there is no reasonable ABIWORD 2006 download entry ?
Because the .debs for this can't be installed via application manager, and AbiWord just isn't ready for prime time yet. I've got to figure out where to hook in the keyboard calls, and figure out what's going on with word import.
I've finally gotten abiword to appear and function on my Nokia 770, but only under rather curious (to me) circumstances. I access it from the x-terminal, but can do so only in the user ($) mode. I can't access it from root (#)! Also, even though there is an "abiword" shortcut designation under "extras," this doesn't work either. Anyway, I'm glad it is there, and in a form not too burdensome to access. I use my Freedom Bluetooth keyboard.
I've finally gotten abiword to appear and function on my Nokia 770, but only under rather curious (to me) circumstances. I access it from the x-terminal, but can do so only in the user ($) mode. I can't access it from root (#)! Also, even though there is an "abiword" shortcut designation under "extras," this doesn't work either. Anyway, I'm glad it is there, and in a form not too burdensome to access. I use my Freedom Bluetooth keyboard.
I have also the shortcut problem, i use x-term to start it.
Yes, but even as is, it's great. I'm using it every day, and am forever grateful. It works great with a bluetooth keyboard. Thanks again! K.
I greatly appreciate the efforts being made. I use the 770 to read -- and there are probably far more readers than writers. So I speak for readers. I am not alone in needing the ability to read .DOC files. But I may never need the ability to edit these. I would put importing way ahead of input on the priority list. Thanks for all the work.
statwrangler, there is already a possibility to read .doc and .xls documents on N770 w/o Abiword or Gnumeric. All you have to do is to send doc- or xls-files as attachment to your gmail account. Then open the message in browser using gmail web client and simply click on HTML view of attachment. Both doc. and xls. files are displayed as formated text w/o pictures.
I hope that could be helpful at least for readers...
statwrangler, there is already a possibility to read .doc and .xls documents on N770 w/o Abiword or Gnumeric. All you have to do is to send doc- or xls-files as attachment to your gmail account. Then open the message in browser using gmail web client and simply click on HTML view of attachment. Both doc. and xls. files are displayed as formated text w/o pictures.
Yes, that or writely.com. Follow their instruction to bypass the browser detection, everything works except actually editing the document. But you can upload a word file and retrieve it in zipped html or pdf.
In my opinion writely.com does a better conversion job than gmail.
By the way, i tried a couple of hours ago to install abiword, but I wasn't able to get it run, i think i got something messed up with the shared libraries. I'll wait for the next package before trying again.
Thank you very much to everyone who is working on it anyway.
I am not alone in needing the ability to read .DOC files. But I may never need the ability to edit these.
This may be so not what you want to view your .doc files like, but what about antiword? Its real purpose is conversion of .doc to plain text, though. However, it does a very bad job of writing formatted PS or PDF, too.
I don't know if there's an antiword package yet. If there isn't, I'll try to make one as soon as I get my 770. It compiles out of the box in scratchbox.
For what it's worth, here's a makeshift Abiword binary based on the old IT2005 Word Processor: http://erinye.com/maemo/AbiTest. You'll have to copy it to any place you like, chmod 0755 it and run it through xterm.
It has a working onscreen keyboard (click anywhere in the document window to make it appear) and it imports .doc files with less question marks in them and more of the original content. (edit: This is something I changed. Did this ever work on IT2005?)
You have to run it from xterm and it doesn't survive task switching or minimizing. Don't do that or you'll have to kill it manually.
You need all of aleksandyr's debs installed as I didn't bother to package the libraries and other support files Abiword needs to run. I'm still amazed this even starts up on my 770.
Don't use this for any real work. I'm only fooling around with the dev kit. I don't actually know what I'm doing.
