AbiWord 0.9.0 Released
Jul 31, 2001, 17:03 (40 Talkback[s] )
AbiWord is a cross-platform, open source word processor. Version
0.9.0 is now out.
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Release Notes:
The AbiWord team is proud to announce the release of version
0.9.0 of AbiWord. The release marks the count down to version 1.0.
While we are not in feature freeze, we will no longer make
substantial changes to the tree. We anticipate making a number of
more rapid releases as we squash bugs on the way to version
1.0.
Users will find this release is much faster and uses far fewer
resources. There have also been a number of bug fixes and feature
additions over 0.7.14.
Multi-lingual users will find the on-the-fly spell checking
particularly useful for spell checking documents written in several
languages.
All Platforms:
Fully Customizable Styles: Martin, Dom
Multi-Lingual Spell checking (Spell check in multiple
languages) Dom, Thomas Fletcher.
Language Dialog: Dom,
ispell checker improvements: Thomas Fletcher, Dom, Vlad,
Hub
pspell checker fixes: Frodo
Line Based Tables: Martin
Tab Bar types: Martin, rms
Scrolling Speedups: Martin, Joaquin.
Speed Ups for Large Documents: Martin, Joaquin
Major Back End Reworks: Dom, Mike Nordell, Pat Lam
Automatic Numbered Headings: Martin
Drag bars for vertical margins: Pat Lam
RTF import/export improvements: Hub, Martin, Dom
XHTML import/export improvements: John Clark.
MS Word Improvements: Dom
Human Readable Text Export: David Given
XSO-FO Export: Dom
Applix Words Import/Export: Hub, Dom
Multiple Encoded text import/export: Andrew Dunbar
Support for almost all worlds Languages in Windows Build :
Andrew Dunbar
Preview as Web, Dom
AutoConf build system: Sam, Frodo, Aaron Lehmann, Hub, Alec
Wolman
Tons of Locale definitions: Dom and intrepid Abi
contributors.
Export to AbiWord templates. Dom.
Plugin Architecture: Dom
Left Ruler fixes: Dom, Pat Lam
AutoSaves ofdocument: Joaquin, Martin
Major Encoding fixes and Improvements: Andrew Dunbar, Tomas
Frydrych, Joaquín, Dom,
New and Improved Artwork and icons: Jakub Steiner, Tigert
Encoding Manager Dialog: Andrew Dunbar
Improved Bugzilla and Webpage: Sam TH, Jesper Skov
Tons of Bug fixes.
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The whole Abi team.
Unix Platform:
Styles Dialog: Martin, Dom, John Clark
Repaint speedups and cleanups: Martin
Color Pickers Toolbar buttons: Martin
Language Dialog: Dom
Nifty mouse pointer changes: Martin
Perl Bindings for AbiWord: Joaquin, Paolo
AbiWord Widget build (Start of embedable AbiWord): Dom
Substantial reduction in usage of X resources: Martin
Context Menu stays active on release of right button:
Martin
Encoding Manager Dialog: Dom
Updated our Distrubuted Type 1 Fonts: Martin
Fix Irix build:
Fix HPUX build: Kevin Vajk'
Fix Solaris build: Hub
Add IBM 390 build:
CJK fixes: Ha Shao
Gnome:
Clip Art dialog: Dom
Major gnome-print fixes (Proper WYSIWYG in Gnome-print, print
preview and print Symbol and Dingbat fonts): Martin
QNX:
Styles Dialog: Thomas Fletcher:
Color Pickers Toolbar buttons: Thomas
Encoding Manager Dialog: Thomas
Plugin Dialog: Thomas
Language Dialog: Thomas
Windows:
Lists Dialog: Michael Pritchett, Mike Nordell
Styles Dialog: Bruce Pearson, Michael Pritchett
Language Dialog: Andrew Dunbar.
Encoding Manager Dialog: Andrew, Mike Nordell
Support for all the world's Languages: Andrew Dunbar.
BEOS:
Various fixes: Jamie Montgomerie, Stephane Fritsch
Mac
Lots more progress, AbiWord Frame now runs: Hub
New and Updated Translations:
Turkish translation Görkem Çetin
Norwegian updates Karl Ove Hufthammer
Italian updates: Marco Innocenti
British English: Alan Horkan
Irish Gaelic: Alan Horkan
Swedish Update: rms
Porugese Update: rms
Catalan Update: Jesús Corrius
German Help: Ralf Müller
Slovenian Translation: Andraz Tori
French update: Gilles Saint-Denis
German Update: Ralf Müller, Christain Meyer, Harald
Fernengel
Hungarian Translation: Tamas Decsi
Special Thanks to:
David Chart, Alan Horkan, Tim Da Luca for great QA work with
Bugzilla. These were really useful contributions.