AbiWord 2.7.6 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 2.7.6 Beta
File Size:: 7.7 MB
Requirements:: Windows 2000 / XP / Vista / Windows7 / XP64 / Vista64 / Windows7 64 / Windows8 / Windows8 64
Language:: en-us
License:: Open Source
Date Added:: 04 Jul 2009
Publisher:: AbiSource Community
Homepage:: http://www.abisource.com
MD5 Checksum:: 4EACFBC7C59EE30BF742CC1EEB8549E6

Core

* Bug 1349: Add support for native JPEGs to AbiWord (Hubert Figuiere)
* Bug 10250: Crash when inserting an endnote above a nested table (Martin Sevior)
* Bug 10573: Crash when cutting text (Martin Sevior)
* Bug 10649: Excessive space at the bottom of pages when using footnotes (Martin Sevior)
* Bug 11777: Dragging an image past the bottom page causes continuous scrolling (Martin Sevior)
* Bug 12155: Numbered lists use incorrect numbering for nested items (Martin Sevior, Marc Maurer)
* Bug 12178: Invalid .abw file created after dragging one hyperlink into another (Martin Sevior)
* Fix a crash that occurred when visually dragging wrapped objects (Martin Sevior)
* Fix endnote support with documents that contain section breaks (Martin Sevior)
* Improve support for page-anchored images and text boxes (Martin Sevior)
* Improve text wrapping around positioned objects (Martin Sevior)
* Make footnote and annotation layouts more accurate (Martin Sevior)
* Prevent some crashes triggered by dragging positioned images (Martin Sevior)
* Prevent some layout hangs (Martin Sevior)

GUI

Cross-platform

* Bug 3641: Implement an option to enable overwrite mode (Hubert Figuiere)
* Bug 9105: Clarify a help message in the styles dialog (Hubert Figuiere)
* Bug 12169: Incorrect file extension used when saving an image (Dom Lachowicz, Hubert Figuiere)
* Fix some image-related memory leaks (Hubert Figuiere)
* Group related items in the insert menu (Hubert Figuiere)
* Move the insert table and format table menu items to the format and insert menus (Hubert Figuiere)

Import/Export

General

* Bug 11581: File names with multiple dots cause AbiWord to detect an incorrect file extension (Marc Maurer)
* Fix a number of import and export errors caused by mix-ups between absolute file paths, relative file paths, and URIs (Marc Maurer, Hubert Figuiere)
* Repair documents that contain text and objects that are not inside paragraphs (Martin Sevior)

AbiWord

* Bug 12165: AbiWord fails to import an invalid .abw file (Martin Sevior)

DocBook

* Add support for native JPEGs and native SVGs to the exporter (Hubert Figuiere)
* Import native JPEGs properly (Hubert Figuiere)

HTML

* Add support for native JPEGs to the exporter (Hubert Figuiere)
* Don't export the MathML helper script when there are only SVGs in the document (Martin Sevior)

KWord

* Add support for native JPEGs to the exporter (Hubert Figuiere)

LaTeX

* Add support for native JPEGs to the exporter (Hubert Figuiere)

Microsoft Word (doc)

* Bug 12083: Crash with non-ASCII style names (Robert Wilhelm)
* Add preliminary support for EMF images to the importer (Hubert Figuiere)

Office Open XML (docx)

* Bug 11739: Images are not imported from .docx files (Firat Kiyak)
* Add support for bookmarks, columns, endnotes, fields, footnotes, hyperlinks, images, lists, tab stops, tables (and formatting), and text boxes to the importer (Firat Kiyak)
* Export proper tab stop leaders (Firat Kiyak)
* Export table background colors(Firat Kiyak)
* Fix a memory leak in the image-handling code (Hubert Figuiere)
* Fix table border sizes in the exporter (Firat Kiyak)
* Handle native JPEGs in the exporter (Hubert Figuiere)
* Improve page number support in the importer and exporter (Firat Kiyak)
* Improve support for multiple namespaces in .docx files (Firat Kiyak)

OpenDocument (odt)

* Bug 10091: Handle page-anchored text boxes (Martin Sevior)
* Bug 11943: Handle page-anchored images (Martin Sevior)
* Add support for native JPEGs to the exporter (Hubert Figuiere)
* Improve support for damaged .odt files (Hubert Figuiere)
* Use the page size defined by the first section for the entire document, since AbiWord does not support multiple page sizes per document (Martin Sevior)

OpenOffice.org (sxw)

* Add support for native JPEGs to the exporter (Hubert Figuiere)
* Fix a memory leak in the page orientation code (Hubert Figuiere)
* Fix memory corruption when importing master pages (Hubert Figuiere)

RTF

* Bug 3153: AbiWord fails to import a malformed RTF document (Hubert Figuiere)
* Bug 5741: Handle RTF files with broken color tables (Hubert Figuiere)
* Bug 7814: AbiWord has trouble laying out a complex RTF document (Martin Sevior)
* Bug 10770: Import RTF files with invalid font tables (Hubert Figuiere, Martin Sevior)
* Fix a potential problem when exporting directional text (Martin Sevior)
* Handle native JPEGs in the importer and exporter (Hubert Figuiere)
* Improve the pasting of text boxes with images inside of them (Martin Sevior)

WML

* Import native JPEGs (Hubert Figuiere)

XSL-FO

* Handle native SVGs and JPEGs in the exporter (Hubert Figuiere)

Installer

* Bug 11626: Remove references to Win9x support in the readme file (Dom Lachowicz)

Internationalization

* Update the Danish (da-DK) translation (Morten Juhl-Johansen ZÃƒÂ¶lde-FejÃƒÂ©r)
* Update the Hungarian (hu-HU) translation (TamÃƒÂ¡s MÃƒÂ¡rton Klein)
* Update the Slovak (sk-SK) translation (Jaroslav Rynik)

Plug-ins

Collaboration

* Bug 12149: Crash in the collaboration plug-in after performing a command line conversion (Marc Maurer)
* Fix some crashes in the tunnel disconnect code (Marc Maurer)
* Fix the collaboration dialogs when cross-compiling (Fridrich Strba)

Development

Cross-platform

* Bug 12156: Missing requirements in libabiword.pc (Hubert Figuiere)
* Add const qualifiers where appropriate in the Office Open XML plug-in (Hubert Figuiere)
* Fix some warnings in the collaboration plug-in (Marc Maurer)
* Fix some warnings in the Office Open XML plug-in (Hubert Figuiere)
* Maintain and release 2.7.6 (Marc Maurer)
* Relicense the SSL code in the collaboration plug-in under a BSD license (Marc Maurer)
* Remove the JPEG plug-in (Hubert Figuiere)

Windows

* Add libjpeg to the VC++ build (Marc Maurer)
* Add the Windows graphic plug-in to AbiWord's core to make it a fixed requirement (Hubert Figuiere, Fridrich Strba, Marc Maurer)
* Fix the MinGW build of the collaboration service back-end (Fridrich Strba)
* Suppress C4290 warnings in the VC++ build (Marc Maurer)
* Update gtkmathview in the VC++ build (Marc Maurer, Fridrich Strba)