AbiWord 2.8.2

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 2.8.2
File Size:: 7.9 MB
Requirements:: Windows 2000 / XP / Vista / Windows7 / XP64 / Vista64 / Windows7 64 / Windows8 / Windows8 64
Language:: en-us
License:: Open Source
Date Added:: 12 Feb 2010
Publisher:: AbiSource Community
Homepage:: http://www.abisource.com
MD5 Checksum:: 3B2BD40B1BDE47575BF18D911246F7E9

* Core:
> Editing/Layout -
- Fix German smart-quotes (Patrik Fimml)
- Bug 12552: fp_TextRun::itemize() leaks memory (Obin Hickory)
- Bug 12508: Prevent some crashes in recent-files code (Paul Bolle)
- Bug 12346: Pressing TAB removes text in the Windows version (Martin Sevior)

>Collaboration -
- Support non-TLS connections for the abicollab service backend (Marc Maurer)

* GUI:
- Bump the copyright date to 2010 (sum1)
- Bug 12551: Fix a memory leak in the menu code (Patrik Fimml)

> Windows -
- Fix a potential crash in the Windows menu code (Marc Maurer)

> GTK+ -
- Bug 10377: Fix GTK+ landscape printing (again) (Patrik Fimml)
- Bug 12501: Fix GTK+ build to work without PATH_MAX (e.g. Hurd) (Patrik Fimml, sum1)
- Fix paths to the offline documentation (Patrik Fimml)
- Add an abiword(1) manpage and install it (Patrik Fimml)
- Restore/fix the AbiWidget focus grabbing behaviour (Daniel Drake)
- Prevent selection events to be emitted by the AbiWidget during smart quote operation (Martin Sevior)

> Maemo -
- Fix a bug whereby AbiWord crashes when the user tries to load the font chooser dialog box while having text with multiple fonts/font styles selected (Ersin Akinci).

* Import/Export:
> OpenDocument -
- Bug 12488: Set the office:version to 1.1 (Marc Maurer)
- Bug 12489: svg:title and svg:desc are exported in wrong order (Marc Maurer)
- Bug 11883: Section/paragraph numbers not imported. This fixes bugs when dealing with complex numbered lists. (Martin Sevior)

> Office OpenXML -
- Fix two crashes that occurred when importing the file from bug 12502 (sum1)

> RTF -
- Bug 9581: Assert when importing document (Obin Hickory)

> HTML -
- Don't allow non-numeric font-sizes when importing from HTML. If a non-numeric font-size is found, use a fall-back sane number (Martin Sevior)

* Plugins:
> GNOME Office -
- Fix contextual menu problems that made charts uneditable (Jean Bréfort)
- Fix goffice object snapshots (Jean Bréfort)
- Adapt to the new goffice API (Jean Bréfort)

> Equation Editor -
- Bug 12380: Equations are slightly larger in print than on screen (Patrik Fimml)

> Grammar Checker -
- Bug 12558 Grammar plugin leaks memory (Obin Hickory)

> Internationalization -
- Add Mandika (Senegal) translation to the list of supported languages (Marc Maurer)
- Update the Mandinka Senegal (mnk-SN) translation (Dominique Rochefort)
- Update the Esperanto translation (Keith Bowes)
- Update the Portugese (pt-PT) translation (Pedro Lino)
- Update the Slovak translation (Jaroslav Rynik)
- Update the German translation (Volker Ribbert).

> Development -
- Maintain and release 2.8.2 (Marc Maurer)
- The plugin.m4 file from the grammar plugin is not included in the tarball (Marc Maurer)
- Bug 12447: Source tarball doesn't include NIB files (Obin Hickory)
- Bug 12446: Compile error (gr_CocoaCairoGraphics.cpp) on Snow Leopard (Obin Hickory)
- Fix OSX plugin system to use xcode (Obin Hickory)
- Bug 12537: SunOS is not defined for src/af/util/xp/ut_endian.h ('The Written Word')
- Kill off gucharmap support, which fixes crashes with gucharmap < 2.24. Their API is not stable, which means we can't depend on it to work (Marc Maurer, sum1)
- Bug 12550: configure override CXX (Obin Hickory)
- Try to detect libpng so that we support 1.2.x and 1.4.x (Fridrich Strba)
- Fix unused variable warnings (sum1, Patrik Fimml)
- Update code comments (sum1)
- Add an additional "break" option to the assert prompt (Patrik Fimml)