From: F J Franklin (F.J.Franklin@sheffield.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Oct 31 2002 - 07:01:14 EST
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 John@Kungfu-tse.net wrote:
> I do not quite understand what is happening here. Am I to believe that
> no-one using Abiword can load pictures, or is it just Bernard Lambey
> and me? If the latter, how does a bug affect just the two of us? It
> would seem that the libpng problem is not the source of this trouble.
> So what is?
Not sure what the details of the bug are, but...
If it's a JPEG-import problem then either jpeg support wasn't enabled in
the build (which is possible but not very likely) or the JPEG images are
not supported by libjpeg or our use of it (which happens, I think).
If you have the AbiGdkPixbuf plug-in then perhaps that will have better
luck - you will probably need to specify it in the file import dialog box.
The ImageMagick plugin is another possibility.
If AbiWord's image handling is completely fscked then that suggests a
problem with libpng, probably because whoever build AbiWord did so using a
version of libpng incompatible with the one your system has.
Using pre-built binaries always caries this risk. Often the surest way to
make sure the software works as it should, is to build it yourself. Get
the 1.0.3 source tar-ball or the latest source from the AbiSuite CVS
STABLE tree (ask us for help with that; not sure there's any
documentation on that) and give it a shot...
Uncertainly,
Frank
Francis James Franklin
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