AbiWord 2.5.2

MD5: A94E41C71B87FBF57C5C4397D6EC7B53
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License: Open Source

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
- Various Drag & Drop and Clipboard handling improvements
- Improved modularisations for resource constrained devices, such as optional printing and spelling support

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