AbiWord 2.7.5 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 2.7.5 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:: 20 Jun 2009
Publisher:: AbiSource Community
Homepage:: http://www.abisource.com
MD5 Checksum:: B9AD972F97BC91846F4CD7F6A7729497

Core

* Bug 10781: Equations cannot be pasted between documents (Martin Sevior)
* Bug 11158: Document with hidden text causes an assert (Hubert Figuiere)
* Make sure documents are printed with the exact number of pages and correct page size (Marc Maurer and Martin Sevior)

GUI

Cross-platform
* Attach modeless dialogs to the application rather than the document frame (Martin Sevior)
* Fix a crash when using the equation dialog with multiple documents (Martin Sevior)

Windows
* Bug 2362: AbiWord only prints across half of the page (Marc Maurer)
* Bug 11212: Crash when deleting pasted image (Hubert Figuiere)
* Bug 12150: Crash when trying to preview annotations (sum1)
* Make copying and pasting from other applications work again (Marc Maurer)

Import/Export

General
* Add support for importing some corrupted files (Hubert Figuiere)
* Fix image-related memory leaks in a few importers (Hubert Figuiere)

HTML
* Bug 10897: Pasting a table from Firefox causes an assert (Hubert Figuiere)
* Add a JavaScript helper to display SVG and MathML elements in exported HTML 4 files (Martin Sevior)

Microsoft Word
* Bug 12133: Word meta data imported with wrong character encoding (TomÃƒÂ¡Ã…Â¡ NovÃƒÂ¡k)

Office OpenXML
* Prevent the potential use of invalid properties and attributes in the importer (Hubert Figuiere)

OpenDocument
* Bug 11904: AbiWord won't import an invalid OpenDocument file (Hubert Figuiere)
* Bug 12132: Invalid meta data files caused by multi-byte strings (Hubert Figuiere)
* Differentiate between "as-char" and "char" anchoring in the importer (Marc Maurer)
* Fix some memory leaks in the importer (Hubert Figuiere)
* Import positioned images inside of headers and footers as inline images until AbiWord can support them properly (Marc Maurer)
* Import text boxes anchored to characters instead of silently ignoring them (Marc Maurer)

RTF
* Bug 6266: Import images from embedded objects in RTF files (Hubert Figuiere)
* Add support for importing and exporting equations (Martin Sevior)

StarOffice
* Bug 12146: Remove some exception handling from the StarOffice importer (Hubert Figuiere)

Internationalization

* Bug 11257: Rephrase the position strings in the page number dialog (Benno Schulenberg)
* Bug 12145: Updated Arabic (ar) translation (Khaled Hosny)
* Update the German (de-DE) translation (Volker Ribbert and Gerrit)
* Update the Slovak (sk-SK) translation (Jaroslav Rynik)

Development

Cross-platform
* Disable the grammar plug-in when spelling support is disabled (Hubert Figuiere)
* Display messages for missing and detected collaboration back-ends (Robert Staudinger)
* Maintain and release 2.7.5 (Marc Maurer)
* Make the bitmap plug-in available on all platforms (Hubert Figuiere)
* Make the rsvg plug-in available on all platforms (Fridrich Strba)
* Remove dialog stub files from the distribution (Marc Maurer)
* Remove the symlink switch from autoreconf to enable building the same source tree in different directories (Hubert Figuiere)
* Replace custom exception code throughout the codebase (Hubert Figuiere)
* Replace custom string maps and vectors with standard containers in the OpenDocument plug-in (Hubert Figuiere)

Windows
* Fix the collaboration plug-in build with MinGW (Fridrich Strba)
* Fix the parallel building of plug-ins with MinGW (Fridrich Strba)
* Increase the Windows baseline to Windows 2000 (Fridrich Strba)
* Suppress C4355 warnings in the VC++ build (Marc Maurer)
* Update link-grammar to 4.5.7 (Marc Maurer)