AbiWord 2.7.6

AbiWord 2.7.6 is an effective tool which is suitable for typing papers, reports, letters, memos and so forth.

AbiWord is part of a larger project known as AbiSource, which was started by the SourceGear Corporation. The goal of the project was the development of a cross-platform, Open Source office suite beginning with AbiWord, the projects word processor.

AbiWord is unique among word processors in its drive to become a fully cross-platform word processor. The source code is carefully written so that AbiWord will run on virtually any operating system with a minimum of time spent on porting.

This combined with the support for internationalization (the ability to run AbiWord in many languages) gives AbiWord a massive potential user-base.

Major Features:

1. Multi Platform
   • Enjoy your favorite Word Processor on the operating system you like to use be it Windows, Linux, QNX, FreeBSD or Solaris.
   • AbiWord has been designed to integrate perfectly with the operating system it runs on. It will take advantage of the functionality provided by the system, such as image loading or printing capabilities.
2. Interoperability: What use is a Word Processor when you cant share your documents with your friends? 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.
3. Advanced Document Layout: Give your document that professional, scientific or fun-to-read look using AbiWords advanced document layout options. Use tables, bullets, lists, images, footnotes, endnotes and styles to enhance the way your document looks.
4. Internationalization
   • Since not everyone in the world speaks the same language, AbiWord comes in many different languages. AbiWord is available in most common and many not-so-common languages.
   • Make sure your document contains none of those nasty spelling errors by using AbiWords built-in spelling checker. Dictionaries exist for over 30 languages.
   • AbiWord supports right-to-left, left-to-right, and mixed-mode text. This means that in addition to supporting European languages, AbiWord supports languages like Hebrew and Arabic as well.
5. Mail Merge
   • Do you also hate writing tens of thousands form letters by hand? With AbiWords Mail Merge capabilities, you can let AbiWord automate that job for you. Special fields inserted into a template document can automatically be replaced with data coming from a variety of sources, such as Relational Databases, Comma Separated Text files or Tabbed Text files.
   • To facilitate the use of AbiWord in a server environment, a powerful command line interface to AbiWord is available. This allows you to generate form letters, print documents or convert documents to any file format AbiWord supports all from the command line!
6. Extensible Plugin Architecture
   • The main AbiWord program is very small and requires very little resources to run. This allows AbiWord to be used on systems that are not considered "State of the Art" anymore, which comes all too quickly in the IT world.
   • The plugin system was designed to give AbiWord all the functionality you might expect from a modern Word Processor. A variety of plugins can be used to extend AbiWords functionality, ranging from Document Importers to a Thesaurus, Image Importers and a Text Summarizer.

Enhancements

• .Core
• Enable selections within table cells that span a whole page or more (Martin Sevior)
• Make sure g_thread_init is called before any other glib function, and remove a redundant gtk_init call (Marc Maurer)
• GUI
• Cross-platform
• Bug 9329: AbiWord uses the old auto save interval instead of the new one (sum1)
• Bug 11822: Auto save no longer works (sum1)
• Bug 11972: Table of Contents numbering style is not properly reset (Hubert Figuiere)
• Fix a memory leak in the Save As dialog (Hubert Figuiere)
• GTK+
• Bug 11764: Prevent an assert when using SCIM (sum1)
• Bug 11959: AbiWord crashes when opening the Select Revisions dialog (sum1)
• Bug 11974: Use a C++ callback to prevent uninitialized value errors in the Save As dialog (Dominic Lachowicz)
• Bug 11974: Prevent invalid reads in the renderer by working around a bug in Pango (Hubert Figuiere)
• Bug 11975: File names are escaped when changing export type in the Save As dialog (sum1)
• Add the ability to render pages as images..

Requirements:

• 486dx or better processor
• At least 16MB RAM
• Windows 95b or later
• Windows NT4 with update below
• Windows 95a has been known to work as well