AbiWord 2.5.1
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AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft® Word. It is suitable for a wide variety of word processing tasks.
Changelog:
* A new Pango based renderer for Unix platforms, improving support for languages such as Thai and Arabic
* Cross platform libgsf integration, allowing the user to open files on remote shares (the last part holds for the Unix platform for now)
* Cross platform Glib integration, meaning less custom AbiWord specific code to maintain
* Support for the Bonobo component framework has been deprecated (Unix platforms)
* Improved the build system to be more standards conformant (for example, “make dist” and “make distcheck” now work)
* Experimental AbiWord GTK+ widget, with accompanying Python bindings
* Various toolbar improvements, most notably the improvements to make them work better on small screens (Unix platform)
* A massive amount of work on all of our popular import and export filters
* A new experimental collaboration plugin (only available on Unix for now)
* A new GNOME Office integration plugin, replacing the old GNOME Office Charting plugin (Unix platforms)
* Improved command line handling, allowing input from standard input, and output to be directed to standard output (examples here).
* Improved printing from the command line, deprecating our old custom postscript driver
* Lots of updates to our translations
* Various Drag & Drop and Clipboard handling improvements
* Improved modularisations for resource constrained devices, such as optional printing and spelling support
* Improved support for running AbiWord in non-UI mode (sometimes also referred to as “server” mode, as offered by the AbiCommand plugin); most notably the requirement for a (fake) X server has been removed.
The changes from v2.5.0 to v2.5.1 include, amongst others:
* Automatic font substitution using fontconfig when a specific font is not available (Unix)
* Numerous fixes to our import/export filters, most notably the OpenDocument filter
* Lots of fixes in our GTK+ frontend, such as fixing those pesky tooltips that just wouldn’t go away
