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[6732c094] | 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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| 3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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[613c524f] | 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
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| 5 | %general-entities;
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| 6 |
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[b8b3a17c] | 7 | <!ENTITY AbiWord-download-http "http://www.abisource.com/downloads/abiword/&AbiWord-version;/source/abiword-&AbiWord-version;.tar.bz2">
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[ff6ec19d] | 8 | <!ENTITY AbiWord-download-ftp " ">
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[10ef3836] | 9 | <!ENTITY AbiWord-md5sum "8ed5fb282b9741aca75b9e47500d39a1">
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| 10 | <!ENTITY AbiWord-size "25 MB">
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| 11 | <!ENTITY AbiWord-buildsize "262 MB (additional 210 MB to build and install the API docs)">
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| 12 | <!ENTITY AbiWord-time "4.5 SBU (to build and install the program, docs and all plugins)">
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| 13 | <!ENTITY AbiWord-minor-version "2.4">
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| 14 | <!ENTITY AbiWord-under-version "2_4">
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[613c524f] | 15 | ]>
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| 16 |
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[0b5a693] | 17 | <sect1 id="abiword" xreflabel="AbiWord-&AbiWord-version;">
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[ab49f6cb] | 18 | <?dbhtml filename="AbiWord.html" ?>
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| 19 |
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| 20 | <sect1info>
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| 21 | <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
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| 22 | <date>$Date$</date>
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| 23 | </sect1info>
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| 24 |
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| 25 | <title>AbiWord-&AbiWord-version;</title>
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| 26 |
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| 27 | <indexterm zone="abiword">
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| 28 | <primary sortas="a-AbiWord">AbiWord</primary>
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| 29 | </indexterm>
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| 30 |
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| 31 | <sect2 role="package">
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| 32 | <title>Introduction to AbiWord</title>
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| 33 |
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| 34 | <para>The <application>AbiWord</application> package contains a word
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| 35 | processing application. This is useful for writing reports, letters and
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| 36 | other formatted documents.</para>
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| 37 |
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| 38 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
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| 39 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 40 | <listitem>
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| 41 | <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&AbiWord-download-http;"/></para>
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| 42 | </listitem>
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| 43 | <listitem>
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| 44 | <para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&AbiWord-download-ftp;"/></para>
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| 45 | </listitem>
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| 46 | <listitem>
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| 47 | <para>Download MD5 sum: &AbiWord-md5sum;</para>
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| 48 | </listitem>
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| 49 | <listitem>
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| 50 | <para>Download size: &AbiWord-size;</para>
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| 51 | </listitem>
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| 52 | <listitem>
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| 53 | <para>Estimated disk space required: &AbiWord-buildsize;</para>
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| 54 | </listitem>
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| 55 | <listitem>
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| 56 | <para>Estimated build time: &AbiWord-time;</para>
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| 57 | </listitem>
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| 58 | </itemizedlist>
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| 59 |
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| 60 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">AbiWord Dependencies</bridgehead>
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| 61 |
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| 62 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
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[f9f783d0] | 63 | <para role="required"><xref linkend="fribidi"/> and
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[77b7e4fe] | 64 | <xref linkend="libgnomeprintui"/></para>
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[ab49f6cb] | 65 |
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| 66 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
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[10ef3836] | 67 | <para role="optional"><xref linkend="libgnomeui"/> (for GNOME-2 support),
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| 68 | <xref linkend="gucharmap"/>,
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| 69 | <ulink url="http://www.abisource.com/enchant/">Enchant</ulink> (uses
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| 70 | <xref linkend="aspell"/>),
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[bccbdaea] | 71 | <ulink url="http://wvware.sourceforge.net/">wv</ulink> (with
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[10ef3836] | 72 | <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/wvware">libwmf</ulink> installed first), and
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| 73 | <ulink url="http://valgrind.org/">Valgrind</ulink></para>
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[362a788] | 74 |
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| 75 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional for Plugins</bridgehead>
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[10ef3836] | 76 | <para role="optional"><xref linkend="libgsf"/> (to build the OpenDocument/OpenOffice plugin),
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| 77 | <xref linkend="poppler"/> (for the pdf plugin, requires installing with unsupported xpdf headers),
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[77b7e4fe] | 78 | <xref linkend="librsvg"/>,
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[10ef3836] | 79 | <!-- Currently Broken <xref linkend="html-tidy"/>, -->
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| 80 | <!-- Currently Broken <ulink url="http://www.inter7.com/index.php?page=eps">EPS</ulink>, -->
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| 81 | <xref linkend="nautilus"/> (for GNOME-2 support),
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| 82 | <xref linkend="goffice"/> (you must use a version of
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| 83 | <ulink url="&gnome-download-http;/goffice/0.2/">GOffice <0.3.0</ulink>),
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| 84 | <ulink url="http://www.abisource.com/projects/link-grammar/">Link Grammar</ulink>,
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[24ffa4b5] | 85 | <ulink url="http://aiksaurus.sourceforge.net/">Aiksaurus</ulink>,
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[3d9e7a1] | 86 | <ulink url="http://www.gnome-db.org/">libgnomedb version <1.3.0</ulink>* (requires
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[10ef3836] | 87 | <ulink url="http://www.gnome-db.org/">libgda version <1.3.0</ulink>),
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[24ffa4b5] | 88 | <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/wvware">libwmf</ulink>,
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[10ef3836] | 89 | <ulink url="http://helm.cs.unibo.it/mml-widget/">GtkMathView</ulink> (requires
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| 90 | <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/gmetadom/">Gnome DOM Bindings</ulink> which requires
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| 91 | <ulink url="http://gdome2.cs.unibo.it/">gdome2</ulink>),
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[24ffa4b5] | 92 | <ulink url="http://libwpd.sourceforge.net/">libwpd</ulink>,
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[10ef3836] | 93 | <ulink url="http://libots.sourceforge.net/">OTS</ulink>, and
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[77b7e4fe] | 94 | <ulink url="http://software.frodo.looijaard.name/psiconv/">Psiconv</ulink></para>
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[24ffa4b5] | 95 |
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[3d9e7a1] | 96 | <para>* The
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| 97 | <application>libgda</application>/<application>libgnomedb</application>
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| 98 | stack required for <application>AbiWord</application> database
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| 99 | access may conflict with the versions used by the
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| 100 | <xref linkend="gnumeric"/> database plugin. Though the libraries
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| 101 | themselves pose no conflict, the executables and support files will
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| 102 | overwrite one another. Note that the current (version 3.0.x) stack does not
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| 103 | pose a conflict with any of the previous versions (but does not support
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| 104 | <application>AbiWord</application> or <application>Gnumeric</application>
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| 105 | database access. <application>AbiWord</application> requires versions
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| 106 | <1.3.0 (1.2.2 is known to work).</para>
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| 107 |
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[38e4f06] | 108 | <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
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| 109 | <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/abiword"/></para>
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| 110 |
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[ab49f6cb] | 111 | </sect2>
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| 112 |
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| 113 | <sect2 role="installation">
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| 114 | <title>Installation of AbiWord</title>
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| 115 |
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| 116 | <para>Install <application>AbiWord</application> by running the following
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| 117 | commands:</para>
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| 118 |
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[10ef3836] | 119 | <screen><userinput>cd abi &&
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| 120 | ./configure --prefix=/usr &&
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| 121 | make &&
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| 122 |
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| 123 | cd ../abiword-plugins &&
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| 124 | sed -i 's/dictionary_file)/reinterpret_cast<const unsigned char *>(&)/' \
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| 125 | tools/ots/xp/AbiOts.cpp &&
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| 126 |
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[ff6ec19d] | 127 | ./configure --prefix=/usr --without-inter7eps &&
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[24ffa4b5] | 128 | make &&
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| 129 |
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[10ef3836] | 130 | cd ..</userinput></screen>
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| 131 |
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| 132 | <para>If you wish to create the API documentation,
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| 133 | <xref linkend="doxygen"/> must be installed and issue the following
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| 134 | commands:</para>
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| 135 |
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| 136 | <screen><userinput>pushd abi &&
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| 137 | doxygen &&
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| 138 | popd</userinput></screen>
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| 139 |
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| 140 | <para>This package's test suite requires <ulink
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| 141 | url="http://valgrind.org/">Valgrind</ulink>. Though the end message will
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| 142 | indicate the tests failed, there will actually be many tests that run
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| 143 | to a successful completion. Run the tests by issuing the following
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| 144 | commands:</para>
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| 145 |
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| 146 | <screen><userinput>pushd abi &&
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| 147 | make check &&
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| 148 | popd</userinput></screen>
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[5bb9ec2] | 149 |
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[ab49f6cb] | 150 | <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
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[5bb9ec2] | 151 |
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[10ef3836] | 152 | <screen role="root"><userinput>cd abi &&
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| 153 | make install &&
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[9f37e34] | 154 |
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[10ef3836] | 155 | install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/abiword-&AbiWord-version; &&
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| 156 | install -v -m644 docs/*.* \
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| 157 | /usr/share/doc/abiword-&AbiWord-version; &&
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[60d0f22] | 158 |
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[10ef3836] | 159 | cd ../abiword-plugins &&
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| 160 | make install &&
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[60d0f22] | 161 |
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[10ef3836] | 162 | cd ..</userinput></screen>
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[77b7e4fe] | 163 |
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[10ef3836] | 164 | <para><application>AbiWord</application> is now installed and must be used
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| 165 | to build the Help files. Issue the following commands as an unprivileged
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| 166 | user:</para>
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[77b7e4fe] | 167 |
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[10ef3836] | 168 | <screen><userinput>pushd abiword-docs &&
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| 169 | ./make-html.sh &&
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| 170 | cd ..</userinput></screen>
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[9f37e34] | 171 |
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[410e228b] | 172 | <!-- removing this as it does exactly the same thing as
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[10ef3836] | 173 | the make-html.sh does ./make-gnome-html.sh && -->
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[9f37e34] | 174 |
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[10ef3836] | 175 | <para>Then as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user,
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[24ffa4b5] | 176 | install the help files:</para>
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[9f37e34] | 177 |
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[62677481] | 178 | <screen role="root"><userinput>install -v -m644 man/abiword.1 /usr/share/man/man1 &&
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| 179 | install -v -m644 Manual/en/Abiword_Manual.abw \
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[10ef3836] | 180 | /usr/share/doc/abiword-&AbiWord-version; &&
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| 181 | cp -v -Rf help /usr/share/AbiSuite-&AbiWord-minor-version;/AbiWord &&
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| 182 | find /usr/share/AbiSuite-&AbiWord-minor-version;/AbiWord/help \
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| 183 | -type d -exec chmod -v 755 {} \;</userinput></screen>
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| 184 |
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| 185 | <para>If you have a <application>GNOME</application> installation, issue
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[adb02f98] | 186 | the following commands as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
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[10ef3836] | 187 | user to install the <application>AbiWord</application> Bonobo component
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| 188 | description file:</para>
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| 189 |
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| 190 | <screen role="root"><userinput>install -v -m644 abidistfiles/GNOME_AbiWord_Control_&AbiWord-under-version;.server \
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[adb02f98] | 191 | $(pkg-config --variable=prefix ORBit-2.0)/lib/bonobo/servers &&
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[10ef3836] | 192 |
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[adb02f98] | 193 | if [ $(pkg-config --variable=prefix ORBit-2.0) != "/usr" ]; then
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| 194 | rmdir -v /usr/lib/{bonobo/servers,bonobo}
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| 195 | fi</userinput></screen>
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[10ef3836] | 196 |
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| 197 | <para>If you built the API documentation, install it by issuing the
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| 198 | following commands as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
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| 199 | user:</para>
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| 200 |
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| 201 | <screen role="root"><userinput>install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/abiword-&AbiWord-version;/api &&
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| 202 |
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| 203 | for FILENAME in $(ls abi/docs/dox/html); do
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| 204 | install -v -m644 abi/docs/dox/html/${FILENAME} \
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| 205 | /usr/share/doc/abiword-&AbiWord-version;/api
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| 206 | done</userinput></screen>
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[802e40b9] | 207 |
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[ab49f6cb] | 208 | </sect2>
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| 209 |
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| 210 | <sect2 role="commands">
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| 211 | <title>Command Explanations</title>
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| 212 |
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[24ffa4b5] | 213 | <para><parameter>--without-inter7eps</parameter>: Some of the headers from
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| 214 | the <application>EPS</application> package are not compatible with
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[60d0f22] | 215 | <application>GCC</application>-&gcc-version;. This parameter prevents
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| 216 | linking to the package and incurring a build failure.</para>
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[bccbdaea] | 217 |
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[10ef3836] | 218 | <para><command>sed -i '...' tools/ots/xp/AbiOts.cpp </command>:
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| 219 | This command is used to fix an incompatibility with
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| 220 | <application>GCC</application> and the
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| 221 | <application>libots</application> package.</para>
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[77b7e4fe] | 222 |
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[adb02f98] | 223 | <para><command>if [ ... != "/usr" ]; then ...;fi</command>:
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| 224 | This command is used to remove unneeded directories if the
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| 225 | <application>GNOME</application> installation is in any prefix
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| 226 | other than <filename class='directory'>/usr</filename>.</para>
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| 227 |
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[77b7e4fe] | 228 | </sect2>
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| 229 |
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| 230 | <sect2 role="configuration">
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[60d0f22] | 231 | <title>Configuring AbiWord</title>
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[77b7e4fe] | 232 |
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| 233 | <sect3 id="abiword-config">
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| 234 | <title>Config File</title>
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| 235 |
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| 236 | <para><filename>~/.AbiSuite/templates/normal.awt</filename></para>
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| 237 |
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[60d0f22] | 238 | <indexterm zone="abiword abiword-config">
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| 239 | <primary sortas="e-AA.AbiSuite-templates-normal">~/.AbiSuite/templates/normal.awt</primary>
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| 240 | </indexterm>
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| 241 |
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[77b7e4fe] | 242 | </sect3>
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| 243 |
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| 244 | <sect3>
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| 245 | <title>Configuration Information</title>
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| 246 |
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[60d0f22] | 247 | <para>Choose the right template for your language and locale from the
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| 248 | list produced by the following command:</para>
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[77b7e4fe] | 249 |
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[10ef3836] | 250 | <screen><userinput>ls /usr/share/AbiSuite-&AbiWord-minor-version;/templates</userinput></screen>
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[77b7e4fe] | 251 |
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| 252 | <para>Create the folder
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| 253 | <filename class='directory'>~/.AbiSuite/templates</filename> then copy the
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| 254 | <filename>normal.awt</filename> you want into it:</para>
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| 255 |
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[10ef3836] | 256 | <screen><userinput>install -v -m750 -d ~/.AbiSuite/templates &&
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| 257 | install -v -m640 /usr/share/AbiSuite-&AbiWord-minor-version;/templates/normal.awt-<replaceable><lang></replaceable> \
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| 258 | ~/.AbiSuite/templates/normal.awt</userinput></screen>
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[77b7e4fe] | 259 |
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[6591249] | 260 | <para>Change <replaceable><lang></replaceable> in the above
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[60d0f22] | 261 | command to fit the name of the file you want.</para>
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[77b7e4fe] | 262 |
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[10ef3836] | 263 | <para>If you have <xref linkend="desktop-file-utils"/> installed,
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| 264 | you should run the <command>update-desktop-database</command> command
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| 265 | to update the mimeminfo cache and allow the Help system to work.</para>
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| 266 |
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[77b7e4fe] | 267 | </sect3>
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[ab49f6cb] | 268 |
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| 269 | </sect2>
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| 270 |
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| 271 | <sect2 role="content">
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| 272 | <title>Contents</title>
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| 273 |
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| 274 | <segmentedlist>
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| 275 | <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
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| 276 | <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
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[24ffa4b5] | 277 | <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
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[ab49f6cb] | 278 |
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| 279 | <seglistitem>
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[10ef3836] | 280 | <seg>abiword, AbiWord-&AbiWord-minor-version;, ttfadmin.sh, and ttftool</seg>
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[24ffa4b5] | 281 | <seg>Numerous plugin library support modules</seg>
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[10ef3836] | 282 | <seg>/usr/lib/AbiWord-&AbiWord-minor-version; and
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| 283 | /usr/share/AbiSuite-&AbiWord-minor-version;</seg>
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[ab49f6cb] | 284 | </seglistitem>
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| 285 | </segmentedlist>
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| 286 |
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| 287 | <variablelist>
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| 288 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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| 289 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
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| 290 | <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
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| 291 |
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| 292 | <varlistentry id="abiword-prog">
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| 293 | <term><command>abiword</command></term>
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| 294 | <listitem>
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[77b7e4fe] | 295 | <para>is a symbolic link to the main
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[10ef3836] | 296 | <command>AbiWord-&AbiWord-minor-version;</command>
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[ab49f6cb] | 297 | executable.</para>
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| 298 | <indexterm zone="abiword abiword-prog">
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| 299 | <primary sortas="g-abiword">abiword</primary>
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| 300 | </indexterm>
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| 301 | </listitem>
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| 302 | </varlistentry>
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| 303 |
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[10ef3836] | 304 | <varlistentry id="AbiWord-version-number">
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| 305 | <term><command>AbiWord-&AbiWord-minor-version;</command></term>
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[ab49f6cb] | 306 | <listitem>
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| 307 | <para>is the word-processing program executable.</para>
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[10ef3836] | 308 | <indexterm zone="abiword AbiWord-version-number">
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| 309 | <primary sortas="b-AbiWord-&AbiWord-minor-version;">AbiWord-&AbiWord-minor-version;</primary>
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[ab49f6cb] | 310 | </indexterm>
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| 311 | </listitem>
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| 312 | </varlistentry>
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| 313 |
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| 314 | <varlistentry id="ttfadmin.sh">
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| 315 | <term><command>ttfadmin.sh</command></term>
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| 316 | <listitem>
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| 317 | <para>generates support files required by
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| 318 | <application>AbiWord</application> for each TrueType font in a
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| 319 | given directory.</para>
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| 320 | <indexterm zone="abiword ttfadmin.sh">
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| 321 | <primary sortas="b-ttfadmin.sh">ttfadmin.sh</primary>
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| 322 | </indexterm>
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| 323 | </listitem>
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| 324 | </varlistentry>
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| 325 |
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| 326 | <varlistentry id="ttftool">
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| 327 | <term><command>ttftool</command></term>
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| 328 | <listitem>
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| 329 | <para>is a utility for processing TrueType fonts.</para>
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| 330 | <indexterm zone="abiword ttftool">
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| 331 | <primary sortas="b-ttftool">ttftool</primary>
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| 332 | </indexterm>
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| 333 | </listitem>
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| 334 | </varlistentry>
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| 335 |
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| 336 | </variablelist>
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| 337 |
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| 338 | </sect2>
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[f45b1953] | 339 |
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| 340 | </sect1>
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