AbiWord 2.7.8 Beta

AbiSource Community - 7.90M (Open Source)
AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft Word and is rapidly becoming a state of the art Word Processor. It has lots of features useful

Publisher's description

AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft Word and is rapidly becoming a state of the art Word Processor. It has lots of features useful for your daily work, personal needs, or for just some good old typing fun.
AbiWord is unique among word processors in its drive to become a fully cross-platform word processor. Our source code is carefully written so that AbiWord will run on virtually any operating system with a minimum of time spent on porting. This combined with our support for internationalization (the ability to run AbiWord in many languages) gives AbiWord a massive potential user-base.
AbiWord is part of a larger project known as AbiSource, which was started by the SourceGear Corporation. The goal of the project was the development of a cross-platform, Open Source office suite beginning with AbiWord, the project's word processor.
AbiWord has been created by a worldwide group of volunteers and currently supports many languages and operating systems.
AbiWord is GNU Free Software, which means that you will always have the freedom to use it, make copies of it, and improve it. You are encouraged to make use of these freedoms and share the program with your family and friends!
Multi Platform
Interoperable with MS Word, RTF, OpenOffice, WordPerfect
Advanced Document Layout
Multi language versions
Mail Merge
Extensible Plugin Architecture

Technical
File Size:7.90M
License:Open Source
Released:Aug 02, 2009
OS Support:Windows (All Versions)
Plugins:None
Publisher:AbiSource Community
MD5 Checksum:afdba3c399462bf5df5afe9059a5c78e

Change log

Core

* Bug 10692: Hang when inserting a table over a footnote (Martin Sevior)
* Enable table line drags for embedded versions of AbiWord (Martin Sevior)
* Fix some editing issues with annotations (Martin Sevior)
* Improve the handling of documents that contain page breaks in columns (Martin Sevior)


GUI

Cross-platform

* Bug 2466: Prompt before taking over an existing bookmark's name (sum1)
* (Part of) Bug 11953: Don't list non-scalable fonts in the Linux and Mac UIs (Hubert Figuiere)
* Bug 12256: The "Help Introduction" menu item has an incorrect status bar description (sum1)
* Make some frequently-used drawing code slightly faster (Robert Wilhelm)
* Make text rendering on Linux and Mac faster (Robert Wilhelm)

Windows

* Bug 2468: Disable the OK button in the bookmark dialog when the bookmark name is empty (sum1)
* Bug 12188: Implement an "enable overwrite mode" option on Windows (sum1)


Import/Export

AbiWord

* Fix some potential issues that could lead to invalid XML in the abw exporter (sum1)

Office Open XML (docx)

* Bug 12180: OpenOffice.org can't read the docx files exported by AbiWord (Firat Kiyak)
* Add support for borderless table cells to the importer (Firat Kiyak)
* Add support for table styles to the importer (Firat Kiyak)
* Fix the exporting of page columns (Firat Kiyak)
* Fix the exporter to handle nested tables (Firat Kiyak)
* Handle overlapping bookmarks in the exporter better (Firat Kiyak)
* Import and export page margins (Firat Kiyak)
* Import page breaks (Firat Kiyak)
* Import text highlighting from docx files (Firat Kiyak)
* Improve support for bookmarks inside of tables (Firat Kiyak)
* Improve support for merged table cells in the importer (Firat Kiyak)
* Make cells inherit table backgrounds in the importer (Firat Kiyak)

OpenDocument (odt)

* Bug 11859: Span background colors are not always exported (sum1)
* Bug 12219: Missing text and image during import (Martin Sevior)
* Bug 12240: Crash when importing a document that contains equations (sum1)
* (Part of) Bug 12661: AbiWord doesn't export background images correctly (sum1)
* (Part of) Bug 12661: Prevent invalid color values in the exporter (sum1)
* (Part of) Bug 12661: Top-level text boxes are ignored during import (sum1)

RTF

* Bug 12239: Text inside of table cells is not imported with the correct alignment (Martin Sevior)


Installer

* Bug 12246: Update the copyright statements in the readme documents (sum1)
* Bug 12257: Add a Slovak dictionary option to the Windows installer (sum1)
* Remove the math plug-in from the typical installation set (Ryan Pavlik)


Internationalization

* Update the Romanian (ro-RO) translation (Lucian Constantin)
* Update the Russian (ru-RU) translation (Urmas)
* Update the Slovak (sk-SK) translation (Jaroslav Rynik)
* Update the Wolof (Senegal) (wo-SN) translation (Dominique Rochefort)


Plug-ins

Collaboration

* Bug 12248: Potential crash when importing data items while collaborating (sum1)
* Fix corrupted data packets with the Sugar and TCP back-ends (Marc Maurer)


Development

Cross-platform

* Make sure all templates are added to the source distribution (Marc Maurer)
* Package Romanian templates and profiles in the source distribution (Marc Maurer)
* Release and maintain 2.7.8 (Marc Maurer)

Windows

* Bug 12215: Fix some mismatched deallocations in Windows code (Ryan Pavlik)
* Add the OpenWriter, Paint, and S5 plug-ins to the VC++ build (Marc Maurer)