AbiWord

AbiWord is an open source, freely distributed, simple and easy-to-use word processing application designed especially for distributions of Linux that aim to be low on resources. The software includes lots of features that make it useful for daily work or personal needs.

The AbiWord project is unique among word processors in its drive to become a fully cross-platform word processing tool. It is quite similar in functionality with old versions of the Microsoft Word text editing software, being suitable for a wide variety of word processing tasks.

Offers support for editing high-standard documents

AbiWord offers built-in support for editing high-standard document formats, including Microsoft Word (DOC) documents, Apache OpenOffice.org (ODF) documents, Rich Text Format (RTF) documents, WordPerfect (WPD) documents, HTML web pages, as well as many other document formats.

Another interesting feature of AbiWord is the advanced document layout functionality, which lets users to use all sorts of style elements to enhance their documents, such as tables, images, bullets, lists, footnotes, and endnotes.

AbiWord speaks your language

The application includes a broad range of dictionaries, which bring supports for over 30 languages. A built-in spell checker is also included in AbiWord, so you won’t have to worry about your writing mistakes (typos).

Among other features, we can mention the Mail Merge capabilities that lets the application automate a certain task for you, and the powerful plugin architecture that allows you to enhance its default functionality through plugins.

A multiplatform word processing utility

AbiWord is a multiplatform word processing utility that has been successfully tested on a wide range of GNU/Linux distributions, as well as on the FreeBSD, Solaris, QNX and Microsoft Windows operating system.

It is fully compatible with both 64-bit (x86_64) and 32-bit (x86) CPU architectures and uses few resources, which means that you can install and use it on any computer. It is usually distributed on all GNU/Linux operating systems that use a lightweight desktop environment/window manager.

What is new in this release:

• Translation updates and fixes:
• Welsh
• Serbian
• Finish
• English (Canada)
• English (Australia)
• English (Ireland)
• Core:
• Various build fixes: Bug 13697, bug 13650, bug 13726, Bug 13753, Bug 13569
• Various crash fixes: Bug 13716, Bug 13752, Bug 13807, Bug 13766
• Various memory leaks fixes.
• Bug 13533 - Fix printing of SVG images.
• Bug 13709 - Fix import of very long paragraphs.
• Bug 13722 - Fix scrolling in the Insert Symbol dialog.
• Bug 13729 - Make the available languages list expandable.
• Bug 13731 - Fix text rendering after an SVG image
• Bug 13662 - Never change an image resolution on scaling.
• Bug 13734 - Do not execute radio buttons events when unchecked.
• Bug 13736 - Properly iterate through the plugin arguments
• Fix SVG icon.)
• Fixed bug in the font chooser.
• Bug 13773 - Fix the ruler and background page theming on Gtk3. Ruler knobs no longer do "3D" on Gtk3. Bug 13762
• Bug 13787 - Fix the table widget drawing
• AbiWord works better on Wayland: Bug 13766, Bug 13767
• Import/Export:
• OpenDocument:
• Bug 13707 - Fixed paragraph export to Open Document.
• Bug 13706 - If needed apply default style for headers.
• OpenDocument: Fix a buffer overrun
• Plugins:
• Collaboration:
• Fix various build issues. Bug 13712, Bug 13754 and Bug 13742

What is new in version 3.0.1:

• Core:
• Bump win version number to 3.0.0 (Marc Maurer)
• Bug 13564 - Fix crash in abw to HTML conversion. Uplifted from master (Hubert Figuiere)
• Bug 13565 - Missing cdump.pl in the tarball. Uplifted from master (Hubert Figuiere)
• Fix 13572: libabiword_init annotation is wrong (Daniel Narvaez ). Cherry-pick from trunk@33573. (Hubert Figuiere)
• Fix 13548: Need method to hide/show rulers in the python bindings (Gonzalo Odiard ) Cherry-pick from trunk@33575. (Hubert Figuiere)
• Fix comments that mention "AiksaurusABI_invoke" when a different name is involved. Bad cut and paste. No code change. (UPLIFT from trunk) (Hubert Figuiere)
• Bug 13586 - We don't have a frame when printing. UPLIFTED from trunk (Hubert Figuiere)
• Bug 13593 - Fix build issue with bison 3.0 Author: Dimitri John Ledkov (Hubert Figuiere)
• Bug 13582 - Fix redraw region in custom widget. Cherry-picked from trunk@33870 and reworked for 3.0.x (Hubert Figuiere)
• Bug 13585 - fix abi_widget_get_content annotation. from Danel Narvaez. Cherry-picked from trunk@33877 (Hubert Figuiere)
• Bug 13596 - Fix extending selection with Ctrl+Shift+arrow key. Cherry-picked from trunk@33878. by jbrefort. (Hubert Figuiere)
• Evolution needs to be 3.6 now Cherry-picked from trunk@33916 trunk@33921 (Hubert Figuiere)
• Bug 11283 - Don't print slection background in tab runs [#11283]. Cherry-pick from trunk@33902. (jbrefort) with indent fixes (Hubert Figuiere)
• Bug 13549 - Add a Gtk3 backend for Aiksaurus. Still needs to fix warnings, but seems things work. Cherry-pick from trunk@33959. By jbrefort (Hubert Figuiere)
• Bug 13605 - Use GsfInputHTTP for URLs starting with "http://" or "https://". Helps with #13605 (also needs a fix in libgsf). Cherry-pick from trunk@33977. By jbrefort (Hubert Figuiere)
• Fix linkage for libjpeg. (Hubert Figuiere)
• Bug 13605 - Fix UT_go_url_resolve_relative(). Backport form trunk@33872. By jbrefort (Hubert Figuiere)
• Fix an automake warning (Hubert Figuiere)
• Added .docx as a default plugin. (Hubert Figuiere)
• Fix crash when loading a file from abicommand. Cherry-pick from trunk@34036. From jbrefort. (Hubert Figuiere)
• Fix all warnings of builtin aiksaurus-gtk3 library and don't use it whaen available from aiksaurus itself. Cherry-pick from trunk@34043. From jbrefort. (Hubert Figuiere)
• Bug 13621 - Fix crash when editing an hyperlink with either NULL title or target. Cherry-pick from trunk@34128. By jbrefort (Hubert Figuiere)
• Bug 13622 - Fix crash when dragging or resizing floating images Cherry-pick from trunk@34144. By jbrefort (Hubert Figuiere)
• Bug 13624 - Fixed applying a format change to only a table column when using the format table dialog Cherry-pick from trunk@34145 by jbrefort. (Hubert Figuiere)
• Make formatting tools work correctly when applied to a table column. Cherry-pick from trunk@34160. By jbrefort. (Hubert Figuiere)
• Bug 11447 - Check --enable-plugins value. Extracted from trunk@34163. By jbrefort. (Hubert Figuiere)
• Fixed configure when aiksaurus is not enabled. Cherry-pick from trunk@34226. By jbrefort. (Hubert Figuiere)
• Bug 13638 - Don't crash when validating a color change in the background dialog, see #13638, comment #3. Cherry-pick from trunk@34396. By jbrefort (Hubert Figuiere)
• Bug 13835 - Do not remember click type when scrolling (#13635). Cherry-pick from trunk@34410. By jbrefort (Hubert Figuiere)
• Bug 13629 - Avoid crashes when loading a file with multiple text frames. Cherry-pick from trunk@34431. By jbrefort. (Hubert Figuiere)
• Bug 13649 - Fix crash on empty hyperlinks in RTF files. Cherry-pick from trunk@34569. By jbrefort (Hubert Figuiere)
• Fix crasher in font dialog. Cherry-pick from trunk@34689. By jbrefort. (Hubert Figuiere)
• Fix a logic error: this is a sparse vector. Cherry-pick from trunk@34947 (Hubert Figuiere)
• Bug 13682 - Fix theming support for ruler. Cherry-pick from trunk@34948 (Hubert Figuiere)
• Bug 13683 - Replace GtkTable by GtkGrid to have the dialog properly sized. By jbrefort. Cherry-pick from trunk@34956 (Hubert Figuiere)
• Fix the dtyle modify dialog. (Jean Brefort)
• Gtk Graphics: fix a PangoFontDesc memory leak introduced in ABI-3-0-0-STABLE@34954 Cherry-pick from trunk@35024. (Hubert Figuiere)
• Bug 12577 - new scalable icons and sizes. Also set an icon list for the window (to scale) Cherry-pick from trunk@35027. (Hubert Figuiere)
• Gtk Background Dialog: properly get the color on close with the new color chooser widget. Cherry-pick from trunk@35029 (Hubert Figuiere)
• Bug 12577 - Missing Makefile creation (Hubert Figuiere)
• Gtk Dialogs Background and options: fix the color chooser. (Hubert Figuiere)
• Gtk option dialog: fix the color selector for gtk3: We instantiate it manually instead of doing it in the UI file. This diverge from trunk. (Hubert Figuiere)
• Gtk frame: shorter list of icon to make Gtk2 quiet. (Hubert Figuiere)
• Bug 13689 - Fix initial focus. Cherry-pick from trunk@35044. By jbrefort (Hubert Figuiere)
• Release script is for 3.0.1 (Hubert Figuiere)
• Better working release script. (Hubert Figuiere)
• Safer release script. (Hubert Figuiere)
• Better check for SVN checkout (Hubert Figuiere)
• Add icons to dist subdirs. (Hubert Figuiere)
• Disable gir on distcheck (Hubert Figuiere)
• Plugins:
• Collaboration:
• Missing include. (reported over IRC) (Hubert Figuiere)
• Bug 13602 - Add missing boost header Cherry-picked from trunk@33734 (Hubert Figuiere)
• Bug 13657 - Remove gcrypt from tls_tunnel. Cherry-pick from trunk@34946 (Hubert Figuiere)
• Update for compatibility with recent GtkBuilder. Cherry-picked from trunk@34945. By jbrefort (Hubert Figuiere)
• Import/Export:
• OpenDocument:
• Bug 13570 - Fix crasher in OpenDocument import. Cherry-pick from trunk@33939. (jbrefort) with indent fixes. (Hubert Figuiere)
• Bug 13539 - Correctly escape links in odt exporter. Cherry-pick from trunk@33978. By jbrefort. (Hubert Figuiere)
• Don't crash when exporting to .odt without a frame. Cherry-pick fron trunk@34041. From jbrefort. (Hubert Figuiere)
• Bug 13661 - We must ignore OpenDoc soft page breaks, they are not manual page breaks. Cherry-pick from trunk@34703. By jbrefort. (Hubert Figuiere)

What is new in version 2.9.2:

• Add double-buffering support for most of the drawing to reduce flickering
• Implement SVG snapshots for components when possible
• Port the GTK interface to GTK+3 (GTK+2 is still supported)
• Support loading plugins in the Mac OSX port
• Allow SPARQL Query execution on RDF metadata stored in documents

What is new in version 2.9.1:

• Unicode Support for Windows
• Paragraph Borders and Shading Support
• Improved Localizations
• RDF Support in both OpenDocument (.odt) and AbiWord (.abw) files
• A Telepathy Backend for the Collaboration Plugin
• An Experimental EPUB Plugin
• Windows 64 bit Support
• Reviving the Mac OS X Port
• ... and more changes all over the map!

What is new in version 2.8.6:

• Preserve character properties when typing. This fixes a bad regression that was introduced in 2.8.5. (Martin Sevior)

What is new in version 2.8.2:

• Fix German smart-quote support
• Fix landscape printing on GTK+ platforms
• Improved OpenDocument compatibility

What is new in version 2.7.10:

• Bug 12321: Annotation hover box too large (Martin Sevior)
• Allow empty titles, authors or descriptions in annotations (Marc Maurer)
• Bug 12322: Jump to annotation is broken (Martin Sevior)
• Bug 12324: Scrolling from page to page does not work using multipage (Martin Sevior)
• Extended document validity checking (Firat Kiyak)
• Add a Basque translation to the Windows installer (Mikel Pascual)

What is new in version 2.7.7:

• Port the Cairo+Pango based renderer that is used by AbiWord on Linux to Mac OS X. This solves a whole list of longstanding rendering and layout problems that existed in our Mac OS X version. Note that we do not yet provide binaries for Mac OS X, but developers might be interested in looking at the port.
• Allow SVG images to be used as positioned objects, to be copied and pasted, and to be exported to HTML.
• Improve the handling of Smart Quotes.
• Support mail merge fields and page size/page orientation in the Office Open XML importer. Support JPEG images in the exporter.
• Make the equation editor available on Windows again.

What is new in version 2.7.5:

• Make landscape documents print correctly on Windows and Linux
• Make copying and pasting from other applications work again on Windows
• Recover and import some corrupt OpenDocument files
• Improve OpenDocument textbox and image import
• Import and export equations from RTF documents

What is new in version 2.7.4:

• Core:
• Bug 12125: Crash when printing documents twice (Marc Maurer)
• Bug 12127: Incorrect page size when printing more than one page (Marc Maurer)
• Improve the layout and printing of complex Word documents (Martin Sevior)
• GUI:
• GTK+
• Fix a GLib warning in the graphics code (Hubert Figuiere)
• Maemo
• Fix the insertion of 'p' characters (Hubert Figuiere)
• Windows
• Fix a font mix-up to make tables of contents and lists print as they appear on screen (Marc Maurer)
• Internationalization:
• Update the Slovak (sk-SK) translation (Jaroslav Rynik)
• Plug-ins:
• Collaboration
• Bug 12128: Crash when closing a collaborative document (Marc Maurer)
• Development:
• Add an mwindows flag to the MinGW build (Fridrich Strba)
• Document some layout functions (Marc Maurer)
• Fix a Maemo 4.0 header compilation issue (Hubert Figuiere)
• Release and maintain 2.7.4 (Marc Maurer)
• Replace AC_CANONICAL_TARGET with AC_CANONICAL_HOST in the configure script (Fridrich Strba)