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 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 l... [ read more about AbiWord >> ] |
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WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 2.6.4:
* General
* Fix a long-standing plug-in loading issue on Windows (Bugs 8090, 8097, 8178, 8249, 8537, 8890, 9006, 9007, 9008, 9009, 9010, 9313, 9323, 9375, 9420, 9422, 9489, 9572, 9853, 10827, 11056, 11552, 11571, 11572) (Marc Maurer, Robert Staudinger, and sum1)
* Update the internal copy of itex2MML to 1.3.5 (Xun Sun)
* Collaboration
* Bug 11527: Uninitialized variables used in the collaboration plug-in (Marc Maurer)
* Bug 11587: Crash on start-up with an invalid or unreachable collaboration server (Marc Maurer)
* Bug 11654: Crash when saving to the AbiCollab.net web service (Marc Maurer)
* Add a back-end for the AbiCollab.net web service [not enabled by default] (Marc Maurer)
* Allow hyperlinks to be used with the collaboration plug-in (Martin Sevior)
* Encrypt all data transferred to the collaboration traffic router (Marc Maurer)
* Fix a bug that caused instant disconnects when connecting with the TCP back-end (Marc Maurer)
* Fix a few issues that occurred when users disconnected from shared documents (Marc Maurer)
* Fix some crashes caused by disconnecting from a shared document (Marc Maurer)
* Implement a password dialog for the collaboration plug-in (Marc Maurer)
* Large clean-up of the collaboration plug-in (Marc Maurer)
* Make sure glib threads are always initialized (Marc Maurer)
* Editing/Layout
* Bug 11599: Crash when changing page size with a list in the document (Martin Sevior)
* Bug 11694: TOC leader dots non-wysiwyg (Martin Sevior)
* Prevent a few crashes in the layout code by changing asserts (sum1)
* Prevent a few crashes with broken tables (sum1)
* GUI
* Cross-platform
* Bug 10863: Remove non-table toolbar items from the table toolbar (sum1)
* Bug 11632: Underline button is missing from the format toolbar (sum1)
* Correct a message regarding font inclusion and exclusion in AbiWord.Profile (sum1)
* GTK+
* Bug 9461: Changes made via keyboard input are not saved in the font dialog (Robert Staudinger)
* Bug 9882: Margin settings should allow two significant digits (sum1)
* Bug 11222: AbiWord's menu item tooltip is not HIG-compliant (sum1)
* Bug 11350: GObject signal warnings on exit (Robert Staudinger)
* Bug 11583: Pressing escape in the find/replace dialog performs a find/replace before closing (sum1)
* Bug 11617: Tab labels in preferences dialog don't use localized strings (Benno Schulenberg)
* Bug 11664: Poor font rendering with no DISPLAY device (Martin Sevior)
* Bug 11668: Inconsistent text rendering and layout with different zoom levels (Martin Sevior)
* Bug 11683: Pango assertion failure warning (Martin Sevior)
* Fix an issue with broken menus when both the Paint and GOffice plug-ins are enabled (Jean Brefort)
* Windows
* Bug 11290: Remove the cursor blink preference since AbiWord uses the control panel setting instead (sum1)
* Import/Export
* General
* Bug 11595: Add the ability to export specific pages and page ranges in the PostScript and PDF exporters (Dominic Lachowicz)
* Sample command: abiword <file> --to=pdf --exp-props="pages:1-5,7-9"
* AbiWord
* Bug 11629: Formatting not preserved on blank lines (Martin Sevior)
* Fix an invalid XML issue that occurred when a chart or equation was missing a width attribute (sum1)
* LaTeX
* Fix a transparent color check in the exporter (sum1)
* Microsoft Write
* Fix a few crashes triggered by the corrupt documents from libmswrite's suite (sum1)
* OpenDocument
* Bug 10721: Import inline MathML from OpenDocument files (sum1)
* Bug 10872: Exported footnotes lose formatting when imported (sum1)
* Bug 11239: Tabs move to the beginning of the line during export (sum1)
* Bug 11609: AbiWord creates an invalid OpenDocument file when there's a bullet inside of a footnote or endnote (sum1)
* Fix a crash when exporting broken text boxes (sum1)
* Fix a styles-related crash when importing ucf-headings.odt (sum1)
* Fix two crashes that could occur with missing list attributes (sum1)
* Prevent a few potential styles-related crashes during import (sum1)
* OpenOffice.org (sxw)
* Bug 11686: AbiWord fails to import sxw and stw documents that lack a mimetype file (sum1)
* RTF
* Fix a few crashes when exporting broken text boxes (sum1)
* Installer
* Bug 9729: Readme.abw displays with spelling and grammar squiggles (sum1)
* Bug 11189: Document and application icons switched on Windows (Ryan Pavlik)
* Bug 11596: Package a libgthread DLL for the collaboration plug-in (Ryan Pavlik)
* Bug 11639: Package a libsoup DLL for the collaboration plug-in (Ryan Pavlik)
* Bug 11641: Create a single Windows installer [not enabled by default] (Ryan Pavlik)
* Bug 11642: Register the .abicollab file extension on Windows (Ryan Pavlik)
* Simplify file association options (Ryan Pavlik)
* Internationalization
* Bug 9733: Bad pt-PT translation of styles menu item (Benno Schulenberg)
* Bug 11624: Updated zh-CN translation (Xun Sun)
* Development
* Bug 11483: AbiWord fails to compile when libxml2 is built without legacy support (sum1)
* Bug 11605: libabiword fails to build from outside of the source directory (Fabian Sturm)
* Add a few missing breaks and returns (sum1)
* Add a missing include (Hubert Figuiere)
* Add the ability to ignore asserts on Linux (Marc Maurer)
* Change permissive compiler flags on Windows (Marc Maurer)
* Disable some verbose debug messages (Marc Maurer)
* Fix some compiler warnings in the math plug-in (sum1)
* Fix some debug messages in the collaboration plug-in (Marc Maurer)
* Fix some incorrect asserts in the collaboration plug-in (Marc Maurer)
* Fix some missing return warnings (Hubert Figuiere)
* Fix the collaboration plug-in build on Windows (Marc Maurer)
* Maintain and release 2.6.4 (Marc Maurer)
WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 2.6.0:
* Greatly-improved support for languages like Thai and Arabic using a new Pango based renderer (Unix platforms)
* We've included a new GNOME Office plugin that allows embedding Gnumeric charts into your documents (Unix platforms)
* Ability to open files on remote shares, ie. samba, ftp or ssh shares (Unix platforms)
* A new experimental collaboration plugin, allowing users to collaboratively work on the same document in real-time. There are currently 3 communication backends supported: an XMPP based one (only available on Unix systems, and it could use some love), a pu
* A massive amount of work on all of our popular import and export filters, most notably the OpenDocument filter
* The addition of a new experimental Office Open XML import filter
* Support for native Windows Vista menus
* Various drag & drop and clipboard handling improvements
* Allow dragging and dropping images in and out of AbiWord (Unix platforms)
* Fast image previews in the Image dialog, even for huge images (Unix platforms)
* Various toolbar improvements, most notably the improvements to make them work better on small screens (Unix platforms)
* Lots of updates to our translations
* Lots of small fixes in our GTK+ frontend, such as fixing those pesky tooltips that just wouldn't go away (Unix platforms)
* Automatic font substitution using fontconfig when a specific font is not available (Unix platforms)
* Improved support for running AbiWord in non-UI mode (sometimes also referred to as "server" mode, as offered by the AbiCommand plugin); most notably AbiWord no longer requires an X server on Unix systems in non-UI mode
WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 2.4.4:
* Build fix: add a test for xpdf headers, as poppler 0.5.0 does not install them by default
* Fix several potential crashes in the GNOME Office charting plugin
* Update both the width and the height when an image does not fit into the page (bug 9864)
* Bugfixes: 9868
* Small fix in the OpenDocument meta.xml parser
* Small, but important fix on parsing hyperlinks in OpenDocument files
* Fix text that is not in italics, is imported in italics by the OpenDocument importer (bug 9935)
* Fix the bug where the OpenDocument plugin could not import files it exported itself (bug 9846)
* Do not crash when trying to import a password protected OpenDocument file (bug 9869)
* Fix several memory leaks in the OpenDocument importer (bug 9918)
* Make the OpenDocument importer load images not only from the Pictures subdirectory but for any given subdirectory
* Fix a crash when exporting equations to OpenDocument (bug 9964)
* Fix a Table of Contents-related crash on import of an OpenDocument file (bug 10003)
* Bugfixes: 9930, 9950, 9999
* Fix various memory leaks
* Fix a memory problem in some case with UTF8String::append() (this was triggered by the OpenDocument importer)
* UT_Vector::clear() does not free the buffer (performance improvement)
* Fix a couple of potential crashes in the layout engine
* Add a Perl version of the cdump tool for embedded targets
* Added a generic --enable-embedded build option
* Fix lingature handling in RTL text (bug 8239 and duplicates)
* Fix a random crash while editing a document (bug 10151)
* Fix broken RTL dominance in the Format Paragraph dialog (bug 7083)
* Bugfixes: 9751, 9545
* Fix a crash in the HTML exporter when exporting malformed table (bug 9867)
* Do not generate invalid XHTML when exporting section breaks inside of a list (bug 9870)
* HTML Table of Contents export improvements (indent TOC output and label the level numbers)
* Clean up some some unused code in the image importer (Unix)
* Return the proper exit code when doing command line conversions
* Fix a crashes when opening an MS Word file (bug 10122)
* Fix a bug where AbiGrammar/link-grammar only looks in the ./en path for dictionaries (bug 9366)
* Fix an RTF export error; widowctl should spell widowctrl (bug 9825)
* Make the grammar plugin work with recent versions of link-grammar
* Support quoting mailmerge field bodies (bug 8191)
* Bugfixes: 10120
* As part of bug fix 9638 the Win32 comboboxes were left gray (readonly) on Windows
* Fix the width and height output in the Page Setup dialog (Windows)
* Fix the locale setting in the Date and Time dialog (Windows)
* Make grammar check text localisable (Windows)
* Fix displaying of hight resolution images (Windows)
* Several small UI enhanments (Windows)
* Table of Contents dialog fails to open after it's closed with another window (Windows, bug 9994)
* Format table dialog fails to open after it's closed with another window (Windows, bug 9995)
* Text box dialog fails to open after it's closed with another window (Windows, bug 9996)
* Hide the horizontal scrollbar when it is not needed (Windows, bug 5170)
* Fix dirty resizing of images (Windows, 6351)
* Build fix for the OpenWriter and OpenDocument plugins
* Report an error instead of OK when converting a nonexistent src file to an existing dest file in the AbiCommand plugin
* Properly indent DocBook XML
* Don't truncate the error log for every error message, format the help overview nicely, remove some unused code, and check the return value of fopen() in the AbiCommand plugin
* Add GNOME and GTK categories to the abiword.desktop file (Unix)
* Bump version to 2.4.3
* Remove the hebrew shaping and Smart Quotes options, as they never worked in the first place
* Remove the beginnings of the collaboration plugin, as it belongs in the AbiWord 2.6 series
* Fix another infinite loop in the layout engine caused by subtracting 1 from an unsigned integer with value 0
* Change 'I agree' to 'Next' (re: GPL) in the dictionary installers. (Windows)
* Change 'I agree' buttons in plugin installers to match main installer (Windows, bug 8684)
* Link fix for the OpenDocument plug-in (Windows)
* Update the copyright notice to 2006 in the About dialog
* Prevent the hang detailed in bug 9891
* Fix the WML exporter to export valid WML 1.1; also fix a number of issues with tables and incorrectly nested elements
* Prevent a crash that occurs when you attempt to change a document's title while other windows are queued to open (e.g. pressing ctrl + n numerous times)
* Fix a crash when trying to edit footnote in Word document (bug 9588)
* Fix section numbering in problems FAQ (documentation)
* Handle broken tables when exporting to WML
* Don't crash on .sxw files that contain images without an xlink:href attribute
* Prevent future write errors in the text exporter (i.e. when a new PTO_* is added)
* Prevent current (and future) write errors and fix a debug statement in the DocBook exporter
* Prevent current and future write errors when exporting to KWord
* Fix typos (editting -> editing) and "SVG Images" -> "SVG Images (.svg)" for uniformity in the insert picture dialog
* Makefiles and a MinGW build fix for the Hancom importer
* Bugfixes: 9805, 9588
* Avoid some unit conversions in the table layout code
* Funda Wang: Updated zh_CN translation (bug 9607)
* Youssef Chahibi: Updated Arabic translation
* M. Baldinelli: Updated Italian translation
* Camille Moulin: Updated French translation
* Jordi Mas: Updated Catalan translation
* Shmyrev: Updated Russian translation
* Yasen Pramatarov: Updated Bulgarian translation
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