AbiWord 2.8.5

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 2.8.5
Filename: abiword-setup-2.8.5.exe
File size: 7.95MB (8,335,596 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: May 31, 2010
Author: AbiSource Community
www.abisource.com

Change Log:

# 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)