Software Update: Abiword 1.0.1

By admin On May 8, 2002

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Zarc.oh announced that a new version of the word processor AbiWord has been released. AbiWord is one of the smallest graphical open-source word processors for almost all platforms. In this version (version 1.0.1) a lot has been done to increase the compatibility of AbiWord. For example, it is now possible to open and save Star Office documents. Support for MS Word documents has also been improved. Below is the changelog.

Version 1.0.1

Beginnings of a StarOffice importer.

Improvements to password entry dialog.

Fix an assert on password entry dialog.

Help system updates.

AbiPaint plugin improvements.

Plugin link fix on Win32.

Fix endian problems with StarOffice importer.

Build fixes.

Bug fixes: 3211.

Build system fixes.

Fixes to wv.

New UTF8 string class.

Added byteLength() method to UT_utf8string.

Added a format painter.

Added abi widget to build system.

Work on Abi Command.

Fix spell checker to look for local dictionaries.

Fixed build problems on Win32.

Bug fixes: 3171, 3213

Fix to system requirements document.

Fixed a bug with Undo.

Implemented scroll wheel zoom.

Fixed a small bug in AbiWord.nsi.

Fixes to WordPerfect margin import.

Build fix for StarOffice importer.

Added a Unicode sample to help us check our internationalisation.

Usability improvements to the Language dialog.

AbiWord is now an embeddable Bonobo component.

Fixed a build problem in abi widget.

Namespace clean up.

Hacks to AbiCommand.

Started work on an automatic testing infrastructure.

Fixes to clean up compiler warnings.

Version number	1.0.1
Operating systems	Windows 9x, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Linux, BSD, Windows XP, Linux x86, Mac OS Classic, macOS, Solaris, UNIX
Website	AbiWord
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