OT: Should Abiword really be kicked out of core?

[Markus Huber]

Sorry for being a bit OT, but there is an interesting article about 
using PDF with blackend textparts (some of you might already know the 
story):
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/01/1314216&tid=172&tid=103

I tried to reproduce a similar behaviour with OpenOffice.org and Abiword.

Result:

PDFs created through OpenOffice.org are readable when the text is 
blackend (copying, pdftotext, pdftohtml). It does not matter which way 
one is creating a PDF.

PDFs created through Abiword ("Create a PDF document" in the printing 
menue) are absolutely unreadable when a passage is blackend. No copying, 
no pdftotext, no pdftohtml works.

I myself have sometimes to blacken names (not high-security, just lists 
of students), and I always created PNGs to do that. Knowing that Abiword 
can do that through PDFs might be very conveniant.

That might be a feature to keep Abiword. At least: it's quite noticable 
and it's in the media right now.

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Regards
Markus Huber

PS: Sorry, it's late and English is not my first language, so I am not 
shure, if the grammar of my text is very correct.