AbiWord 1.1.4 Released

[ Thanks to Martin Sevior for this link. ]

This version of AbiWord is basically feature-complete for the final 2.0. It offers substantial new features and tons of bug fixes over 1.1.3.

It can be downloaded from http://www.abisource.com

Many people find it stable enough enough for everyday use but we really want lots of testing. Please report any bugs found to http://bugzilla.abisource.com

We have built binaries for Windows, QNX, and Red Hat 8.0 GTK-only. We have an excellent Gnome 2.2 port but we have not made a binary for it because Red Hat 9 with its Gnome 2.2 features are not released yet. To build it you'll need Gnome 2.2 plus gal 1.99 or later.

Among the highlights since 1.1.3:

• Layout of text is now fully independent of resolution. We guarantee 100% WYSIWYG at all zoom levels and for printed documents. - Pat Lam, Dom
• Glade and HIGification of dialogs - Marc Maurier
• QNX specific fixes for new layout code - Johann Bjork
• Win32 specific fixes for new layout code - Jordi Mass
• Fully editable Footnotes and Endnotes - Martin
• Text selection now uses theme colour - Dom
• Text selection uses dark colour - Tomas Frydich
• A huge number of C => C++ casts fixed - Andrew Dunbar
• Major selection and motion speed ups - Martin
• Gnome 2.2 port fully functional again - Dom (needs Gnome2 libraries)
• Drag and drop from Nautilus works - Dom
• Gnome-print works - Dom
• Copy and paste (X)HTML from moz, evolution to AbiWord -Dom
• Print Justified text on Unix and Gnome - Dom
• Embeddable bonobo Control ported to Gnome 2 - Dom, Martin
• Contextual help for QNX - Johann Bjork
• QNX uses utf-8 for all strings - Johann Bjork
• XFT - fontconfig fixes - Joaquin Cuenca Abela
• Documentation updates - David Chart
• Translation coordination and verification - Pierre Abbat, Rui M. Silva Seabra
• Build system fixes and improvements - Francis J. Franklin, Mark Gilbert
• Improved (X)HTML import/export - Francis J. Franklin
• Various OSX port improvements and fixes - hub
• Grab and drag table lines and controls - Martin
• Windows Build fixes - Jeremy Davis, Michael Pritchet
• XML fixes - Jeremy Davis
• AWN insanity and local drug supply - E.A. Zen
• Word Perfect import/export - Will Lachance, Marc Maurier
• rpm spec file fixes - Rui M. Silva Seabra
• Tons of bugfixes and mem leaks plugged - Dom, Martin, Pat, Hub, Jordi, Jesper, Jeremy Davis, Mikey Cooper, SamTH, Michael Pritchet, Rui M. Silva Seabra, Tomas Fridych, Francis J. Franklin

New and updated translations

German - Christian Neumair

Malay - Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan

Japanese - Masayuki Hatta

Yiddish - Raphael Finkel

Chinese - Anthony Fok

Amharic - Daniel Yacob

Mexican Spanish - Nikolai Vladychevski

Portugese - Rui M. Silva Seabra

Galician - Ramon Flores

Dutch - Marc Maurier

French - Pierre Abbat

Related Story:
Release Digest: GNOME, March 2, 2003(Mar 03, 2003)