From: Dom Lachowicz (doml@appligent.com)
Date: Mon May 13 2002 - 09:56:38 EDT
Hi Bernard,
I don't quite understand what you're saying here. Please rephrase your
email, and I will try my best to help. If applicable, please send
screenshots too. If you would like to, send me this request in French
and English, I will try to have a French friend of mine translate it for
me.
Dom
On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 06:48, Bernard Lambey wrote:
> Dear and esteemed Dom,
> In very ancient times, six month ago, very friendly, you gave me
> a way to change the model saved as « normal.awt » =
> ------
> > Do not hand-edit this file. Using abiword, change your page
> > size to whatever you'd like via the File->Page Setup dialog,
> > change your style definitions using the Format->Styles dialog,
> > set the background color to grey by using Format->Background,
> > and then:
> > File->Save As /usr/local/Abisuite/templates/normal.awt
> > Not so hard :-) ~~ Dom
> ------
> I was not returning on the question because I'm a great lazy old man !
> But now, I've a little changed the things : I'm on a Mandrake 8.2, with
> AbiWord-1.0.1 (perfect) and I would try to resolve always the same
> problem =
> - my screen displays in 1024x768 pixels
> - at opening, AbiWord shows a truncated grey background ( with un-
> completed indications on the lowest toolbar ).
> - on that grey background, is shown the white page where I will be
> able to write, when I will have pushed the grey backword right limit
> to the right border, with as first result to obtain a complete plain white
> page.
> - well! all is correct, I am ready to write !...
> In spite of my bad english is it clear ?
>
> What I'm hoping to be able to do ?
> To find somewhere the possibility (in options or in a script) to give to
> AbiWord the correct instructions to induce it to give me AT OPENING,
> and without I have nothing to do, a complete grey background, with
> the white page complete at choiced dimensions noted in your file ;-)),
> even if that opening-document is not full screen, because I like to have
> possibility to click icons on the right of the abiword document...
>
> Is it possible, Doctor, without to kill the patient ?
> Is it not too hard :-) ?
> Best regards
> Bernard L.
>
>
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