AbiWord 0.99.2 released. | Linux Today

AbiWord 0.99.2 released.

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 22, 2002

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New features since 0.9.6.1:

    * Import/Export bookmarks to RTF - Hub
    * Multi-threaded incremental loader - Martin, Hub
    * Perl Scripting now works by default - Dom, Joaquin, Patrick Lam, Frodo Looijaard
    * State of the art Theasurus plugin - Jared Davis, Michael Pritchet, Francis Franklin
    * Start of HTML importer plugin - Francis Franklin, Dom, Michael Pritchett, Hub
    * Spelling support for Commonwealth English, Brazilian Portuguese, Hungarian, Ukranian, Galican
    * Word Perfect Import improvements -Marc Maurer,Will Lachance
    * Import Lists from MS Word - Dom, Tomas Frydich, Martin
    * New improved toolbar icons - Dom
    * Fields update automatically - Martin, Tomas, Frydich
    * Styles Lock - Bryce Nesbitt, Dom (Available for testing by editing document to include )
    * Export nested lists to RTF - Martin
    * Import First and facing header/footers from RTF - Martin
    * Import Bookmarks for MS Word - Tomas Frydrych
    * Import hyperlink from MS Word -  Tomas Frydrych
    * Add header/footer export to HTML - Dom
    * Look in dictionary file for suggestions to misspelt words. - Martin
    * Help file improvements - David Chart
    * Perl script to convert the docs to HTML - Kenneth Christiansen
    * Lots of progress on OSX port - Hub
    * MS Word importer imports all known image types - Dom
    * New AbiWord server - Jared Davis, Hub, Shaw, Dom
    * Start of Open Office importer plugin - Dom
    * Web layout Mode - Dom
    * Free translate plugin for Windows - Michael Pritchett, Andrew Dunbar
    * Drag and drop hyperlinks and images from Galeon/Mozilla into AbiWord - Martin Sevior
    * Gnome2 icons - Dom

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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