AbiWord 2.8.3

AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft® Word. It is suitable for a wide variety of word processing tasks.

Multi Platform

Enjoy your favorite Word Processor on the operating system you like to use - be it Windows, Linux, QNX, FreeBSD or Solaris.

Interoperability

AbiWord is able to read and write all industry standard document types, such as OpenOffice.org documents, Microsoft Word documents, WordPerfect documents, Rich Text Format documents, HTML web pages and many more.

Advanced Document Layout

Give your document that professional, scientific or fun-to-read look using AbiWord's advanced document layout options. Use tables, bullets, lists, images, footnotes, endnotes and styles to enhance the way your document looks.

Internationalization

AbiWord comes in many different languages. AbiWord is available in most common and many not-so-common languages. Dictionaries exist for over 30 languages.

Title: AbiWord 2.8.3
Filename: abiword-setup-2.8.3.exe
File size: 7.94MB (8,330,032 bytes)
Requirements: Windows 2000 / XP / 2003 / Vista / Windows7 / XP64 / Vista64 / Windows7 64
Languages: en-US, es-ES, ja-JP, pl-PL
License: Open Source
Date added: April 6, 2010
Author: AbiSource Community
www.abisource.com

Change Log:

# Core

- Bug 12670: abiword uses libxml2 API badly, leads to crashes (Michal Schmidt, Red Hat).

# Import/Export

* AbiWord
- Bug 12658: Meta data is escaped twice in the AbiWord exporter. (sum1)

*OpenDocument
- Bug 12608: Crash during OpenDocument import. (sum1)
- Make OpenOffice.org 3.2.0-rc4 happy and not claim we write out invalid documents. This is clearly a bug in OOo. Consider this part of your AbiWord Customer Service plan. (johanbr)
- Bug 9913: Abiword won't open password protected ODT files. (Marc Maurer)
- Bug 11858: Tab stops not imported. (Marc Maurer)
- Bug 11942: Tabstops (and tab leaders) not exported. (Marc Maurer)
- Add application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text-web as a supported mimetype in the ODF importer. Also add application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text-{template,web} to abiword.desktop. (Marc Maurer)
- Bug 12667: default-tab-interval not exported. (Marc Maurer)
- Bug 12153: Add AbiWord's version and platform in the meta:generator field. (Marc Maurer)

*Office Open XML
- Bug 12624: Smart quotes are discarded during docx export. (sum1)

# Plugins

* GNOME Office
- Fix a GValue initialization. (Jean Bréfort)

# Interface

* Mac OSX
- Bug 12617: Include files needed for Mac OS X build in source tarball (Obin Hickory).

# Development

- Maintain and release 2.8.3 (Marc Maurer)
- Disable debug messages in the OOXML validation code until it is completed. (sum1)
- Fix a warning. (sum1)