AbiWord 2.8.5

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 2.8.5
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:: 30 May 2010
Publisher:: AbiSource Community
Homepage:: http://www.abisource.com
MD5 Checksum:: CEA0BABF1226F1B74ACDE83CD5FF4A22

# Core
* Editing/Layout
- Fix paste of rich text from HTML and ODT, where previously some formatting properties were not closed properly. (Martin Sevior)
- Add a number of robustness fixes to the layout engine. (Martin Sevior)
- Fix a table selection bug. (Sander Bogaert)

# Import/Export
* OpenDocument
- Fix 10330: Ignored top and bottom margins. (Marc Maurer)
- Fix a typo in the bottom margin code import code, resulting in a bug similar to 10330, but then on import. (Marc Maurer)
- Fix 11905: Document with columns not correctly exported. (Marc Maurer)
- Fix 11937: Incorrect page margin defaults. (Marc Maurer)
- Fix 11874: Bullets, border and 'first page' style not rendered right. Adds the Unicode MINUS SIGN to the list of unicode chars that renders as a dashed list. (Marc Maurer)
- Fix 10884: Columns (section?) margins not preserved on opendocument import. (Marc Maurer)
- Fix 11887: Footer text placement / alignment problems. The real problem was that we didn't support different headers/footers on facing pages. (Marc Maurer)
- Fix 11862: Table of Contents not properly exported. (Marc Maurer)
- Fix 11848: table:number-columns-repeated and table:number-rows-repeated not supported. (Marc Maurer, Martin Sevior)

* Office OpenXML
- Fix wrong page margins on export, similar to bug 11937. (Marc Maurer)

# Plugins
* Collaboration
- Fix 12744: Crash when more than 2 people are collaborating and one of the clients disconnects. (Marc Maurer, Sam Rooney)
- Don't include document names that a buddy does not have access to in the list of available shared documents that is sent to him. (Marc Maurer)
- Fix some small memory leaks in the *.abicollab importer. (Marc Maurer)
- Fix 12728: AbiWord should honor SRV DNS records when collaborating over XMPP. (Damien Diederen)
* MS Write
- Fixed several bugs, added character conversion support and support for page properties. (Ingo Brueckl)

# Internationalization
- Update Galician (gl) translation. (Miguel Bouzada)
- Updated Romanian (ro_RO) translation. (Lucian Constantin)
- Updated Danish (da_DK) translation. (Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér)
- Update German (de-DE) translation. (Volker Ribbert)
- Updated Slovenian (sl-SI) translation. (Martin Srebotnjak)

# Development
- Maintain and release 2.8.2 (Marc Maurer)
- Fix 12701: configure --disable-collab-backend-{tcp,service} should not check for asio.hpp. (Thorsten Vollmer)
- Replace '==' tests in configure by '='. (Jean Bréfort)
- Remove all uses of fp_PageSize::MarginXXX, since getting the document margins this way is wrong/broken. (Marc Maurer)
- Remove some useless asserts and add some useful ones. (Martin Sevior)