Software Update: AbiWord 1.1.3

By admin On Jan 23, 2003

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Among all the major Office packages, there are also programs that can only do one thing very well. One of those programs is AbiWord. It is nothing more than a word processor with as many functions as the well-known Word or Wordperfect. Best of all, it’s open source. Thus, it can be easily used on Linux, MacOS X, Windows and many others. So brand new versions of this software package have been released, version 1.1.3 and 1.0.4.
Version 1.1.3 is the development version for GTK2 while 1.0.4 is the stable version. The changelog is as good as the same and it can be found below. Below is a quote from the release notes:

The AbiWord development team is proud to present the 3rd development release of the next generation of AbiWord. This new version again brings exciting new features to the user as well as LOTS of bug fixes. Here’s a list of some of the changes made, which is by no means a complete list:

XIM input support on Unix (Dom Lachowicz)

Footnote support (Martin Sevior, Pat Lam)

Refactoring of the Frame Code (Will Lachance, Hub Figuiere, Jeremy Davis, Johann Bjork)

Improved HTML and XHTML importer and exporter (Frank Franklin)

New Win32 installer, NSIS2 (Jeremy Davis)

Updated Win32 Keyboard handling (Jordi Mas)

Make the caret change when in overwrite mode (Tomas Frydrych)

Mail merge capability, including database access using libgda (Dom Lachowicz)

Work on a Open Office importer/exporter (Dom Lachowicz)

Font fixes and improvements (Joaquin Cuenca Abela, Marc Maurer)

A whole bunch of table improvements (Martin Sevior)

Image drag-n-drop (Marc Maurer)

Image resizing (Marc Maurer)

Drag-n-drop editing (Dom Lachowicz)

Various spell check fixes (Jesper Skov)

Aspell/Pspell user dictionary support (Dom Lachowicz)

Support for “Barbarisms” (Jordi Mas, Dom Lachowicz)

Python plugin (Mauro Colorio)

Lot’s of build fixes (Frank Franklin, Mike Nordell, Michael Pritchett)

Training Manual (David Buddridge)

Lot’s of localization work (too many people to mention by name)
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A full list of changes is on this one site to be found.

Version number	1.1.3
Operating systems	Windows 9x, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Linux, BSD, Windows XP, Linux x86, macOS, Solaris
Website	gnomedesktop.org
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file size	25.71MB
License type	Conditions (GNU/BSD/etc.)