AbiWord 2.7.2 Beta

AbiSource Community - (Open Source)

AbiWord is a complete word processing software that offers all the tools necessary for text formatting.

AbiWord is a word processing software that works with most current text formats (RTF, DOC, HTML, ODT, etc.)

The application includes all the necessary tools for formatting the text: font style (bold, underline, italics, colors, size etc.), alignment, spell checker, unlimited undo re-number control multi-columns (two and three), search function, page numbering, import images, etc.

AbiWord is very light, so it is very fast and requires few resources. Even those who have an old computer have the possibility to use it. Its intuitive and user-friendly interface greatly facilitates its handling.

With this application some tasks like backup a file, can be automated to avoid loss of time and data. A spell checker is also available. Customizing the toolbar is also on the program and even more.

Title:: AbiWord 2.7.2 Beta
File Size:: 7.6 MB
Requirements:: Windows 2000 / XP / Vista / Windows7 / XP64 / Vista64 / Windows7 64 / Windows8 / Windows8 64
Language:: en-us
License:: Open Source
Date Added:: 27 May 2009
Publisher:: AbiSource Community
Homepage:: http://www.abisource.com
MD5 Checksum:: BC55CDB8AF569E808C6573898997631B

Core

* Bug 12102: AbiWord crashes after print previewing (Martin Sevior)
* Add support for uppercase, lowercase, and capitalized character styles [text transforms] (Dominic Lachowicz)

GUI

General

* Bug 7453: Provide a keyboard shortcut for inserting bullets [Ctrl + Shift + L] (sum1)
* Bug 12089: AbiWord aborts when using the font dialog (sum1)
* Make sure selection handles are drawn in the correct color (Marc Maurer)

GTK+

* Bug 8636: Add superscript and subscript options to the font dialog (Urmas, Marc Maurer)
* Bug 12084: New windows cause memory corruption (Hubert Figuiere)
* Bug 12093: AbiWord displays corrupted font lists (Hubert Figuiere)
* Add a default file name when printing to file (Martin Sevior)
* Fix a g_signal_handler warning on exit (Hubert Figuiere)
* Fix the loading of the options dialog (Hubert Figuiere)

Windows

* Bug 6498: Hebrew menu text does not display the last character (Dominic Lachowicz)
* Bug 9961: Find dialog does not work with Russian text (Urmas)
* Bug 11346: Toolbar icons are corrupted at less than 32-bit color (Marc Maurer)
* Bug 12086: Window title has extraneous character appended (Dominic Lachowicz, Urmas)
* Disable the "Change Language when changing keyboard" setting by default (Marc Maurer)
* Fix print preview crashes (Marc Maurer)

Import/Export

OpenDocument

* Bug 11921: Import overline formatting (sum1)
* Import and export text transforms (sum1)

XHTML

* Export text transforms (Dominic Lachowicz)
* Import text transforms (sum1)
* Import margin-top and margin-bottom properties from inline paragraph styles (Urmas)

XSL-FO

* Import and export text transforms (sum1)

Installer

* Install to Program FilesAbiWord instead of Program FilesAbiSuite2 by default (Marc Maurer)
* Use one Windows installer instead of three separate ones (Marc Maurer)

Internationalization

* Update the Russian (ru-RU) translation (Urmas)

Plug-ins

Collaboration

* Add a button to the account dialog for registering AbiCollab.net accounts (Marc Maurer)
* Allow long email addresses and passwords to be entered in the new account dialog on Windows (Marc Maurer)

Grammar

* Update the dictionary-loading code to work with newer versions of link-grammar (Marc Maurer)

Development

General

* Add --enable-clipart and --enable-templates build options (Robert Staudinger)
* Fix a number of compiler warnings (Hubert Figuiere)
* Fix format string errors throughout the code base (Hubert Figuiere)
* Maintain and release 2.7.2 (Marc Maurer)
* Move templates and clipart to abiword/ to get rid of abiword-extras/ (Marc Maurer)
* Remove the non-functional nroff plug-in (Marc Maurer)
* Use g_convert() instead of custom code (Dominic Lachowicz)

Windows

* Add the Applix, BabelFish, ClarisWorks, Collaboration, DocBook, Email, FreeTranslation, Google, Grammar, HRText, ISCII, LaTeX, Office OpenXML, OpenDocument, OPML, StarOffice, T602, URLDict, Wikipedia, Windows Graphics, WML, WordPerfect, and XSL-FO plug-ins to the VC++ build (Marc Maurer)
* Enable printing and spelling support with VC++ (Marc Maurer)
* Fix a bunch of warnings in the VC++ build (Marc Maurer)
* Fix a compiler error when cross-building (Dominic Lachowicz)
* Improve the VC++ build system to handle official Windows releases (Marc Maurer, Marc Oude Kotte)
* Make numerous changes to the collaboration plug-in to get it to build with VC++ (Marc Maurer)
* Modify the NSIS install script to handle packaging from VC++ (Marc Maurer)
* Remove template exports to quiet VC++ (Marc Maurer)
* Use pre-built peer libraries for the VC++ build (Fridrich Strba, Marc Maurer)
* Include the MSVC2008 runtime in the installer (Marc Maurer)