AbiWord 2.6.0

AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft® Word. It is suitable for typing papers, letters, reports, memos, and so forth.

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.

Features:

* Use tables, bullets, lists, images, footnotes, endnotes and styles to enhance the way your document looks.
* AbiWord is available in most common and many not-so-common languages.
* Built-in spelling checker. Dictionaries exist for over 30 languages.
* Supports right-to-left, left-to-right, and mixed-mode text.
* Mail Merge capabilities.
* A variety of plugins can be used to extend AbiWord´s functionality, ranging from Document Importers to a Thesaurus, Image Importers and a Text Summarizer.

Plugins for AbiWord are available here.

What’s New in version 2.6.0:

* Greatly-improved support for languages like Thai and Arabic using a new Pango based renderer (Unix platforms)
* We’ve included a new GNOME Office plugin that allows embedding Gnumeric charts into your documents (Unix platforms)
* Ability to open files on remote shares, ie. samba, ftp or ssh shares (Unix platforms)
* A new experimental collaboration plugin, allowing users to collaboratively work on the same document in real-time.
* A massive amount of work on all of our popular import and export filters, most notably the OpenDocument filter
* The addition of a new experimental Office Open XML import filter
* Support for native Windows Vista menus
* Various drag & drop and clipboard handling improvements
* Allow dragging and dropping images in and out of AbiWord (Unix platforms)
* Fast image previews in the Image dialog, even for huge images (Unix platforms)
* Various toolbar improvements, most notably the improvements to make them work better on small screens (Unix platforms)
* Lots of updates to our translations
* Lots of small fixes in our GTK+ frontend, such as fixing those pesky tooltips that just wouldn’t go away (Unix platforms)
* Automatic font substitution using fontconfig when a specific font is not available (Unix platforms)
* Improved support for running AbiWord in non-UI mode (sometimes also referred to as “server” mode, as offered by the AbiCommand plugin); most notably AbiWord no longer requires an X server on Unix systems in non-UI mode.
* Improved command line handling, allowing input from standard input, and output to be directed to standard output.
* Improved printing from the command line, deprecating our previously used custom postscript driver
* Improved modularisations for resource constrained devices, such as optional printing and spelling support
* For application developers we’ve made available an experimental AbiWord GTK+ widget; accompanying Python bindings will follow soon.
* For distributors we’ve improved the build system to be more standards conformant (for example, “make dist” and “make distcheck” now work)
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