Using Abiword with Etherpad on Windows

Step 4. Enter the Etherpad folder, right click settings.json – Edit the file in Notepad++

Step 5. Find the line

abiword : null

Step 6. Change this line to:

"abiword" : "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\AbiWord\\bin\\AbiWord.exe"

Step 7. Run Etherpad.

2 thoughts on “Using Abiword with Etherpad on Windows”

Some Dude says:

December 10, 2014 at 9:49 pm

Thank you! Very helpful post.
One thing – it still requires the trailing comma at the end, or it will not launch 😉

abiword” : “C:\\Program Files (x86)\\AbiWord\\bin\\AbiWord.exe”,
MARCO CHACON says:

April 20, 2015 at 5:43 pm

for Windows 7:
“abiword” : “C:/Program Files (x86)/AbiWord/bin/AbiWord.exe”,