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The Page Setup settings only appear to offer Margin values in inches. There appears to be no option to set Margin values in Metric, or to set a default Paper Size of anything other than Letter. The Tools -> Preferences -> Layout option offers a Units value of centimetres but no ability to set a default page size. I'm not sure if these issues are related, but in Europe, the measurements are generaly in metric with an (expected) default Page Size of A4. The above comments apply to version 0.9.0. Clem Dye
This is also true on LinuxPPC/GNOME CVS2001.08.18. Opening.
To clarify: you can set metric measurements on Linux, but you can't set Abi to default to them, and it should pick that up from the locale (as it picks up the default paper type).
following comments from use of v0.7.14 and 0.9.0 Confirmed that page setup only offers choices in inches. Default page size will depend probably on Regional settings on the individual computer. On computers outside the USA many will show a default paper size of A4. Hence, if the page setup box is opened on these computers, simply closing the box again with OK will cause Abiword to crash, since the user has unwittingly elected to change the paper size to A4 without necessarily intending to do it.
I'm not sure what's happening here - AbiWord loads the default paper types and unit type from our system.profile files. These are determined by your locale setup. For example, when I set my LANG to de_DE, I get cm/mm units, a german spellchecker, A4 paper, and a GUI auf deutsch. Does this not happen for other people? Are your environments not set up properly, so that it appears that you're running in an en-US mode? Also, you can always set your default paper size.
New page dialog works according to internal structures instead of printer structers. All Page Sizes are available in all Units
As a follow-up to the update by cinamod@hotmail.com I checked my personal AbiWord.Profile. I couldn't see any 'LANG' reference, but the DocumentLocale value was set to 'en-US', rather than 'en-GB', although the StringSet, ToolBarLabelSet & MenuLabelSet were set as I expected to 'en-GB'. Not having looked at the source I will accept that I might be missing something here, but 0.9.2 on Windows NT 4.0 still gives me the problem that I reported in this bug report.
This has been fixed (refer comment by M Pritchett 27 August) and I have tested a copy of the fixed version (0.9.2+) on Windows ME. Both inch and metric units are available. However there is still a bit of tidying up to do as AbW behaves in a slightly inconsistent and sometimes confusing manner in dealing with measurement units in three places (tools>preferences>layout, file>page setup>page, and file>page setup>margins). Have recorded a new bug (#1935) which deals specifically with the above. The particular problem recorded in this bug (#1828) is fixed - taking the liberty of marking closed. John Selby.