LinuxPR: AbiWord 1.0 Officially Released

May 8th, 2002 — The AbiWord team is proud to announce the first
global release of the award-winning Open Source word processor,
AbiWord version 1.0.1. More than three years in the making, AbiWord
is a reliable, extensible, cross-platform word-processor with many
powerful features.

We aim at robust inter-operability with existing products, such
as Microsoft Word, Corel’s WordPerfect, and others. Our goal is to
incorporate the most useful features of these competing
applications without the fluff, bloat, or inefficiency that
accompany them. The result is a lean and mean word processor, the
download size being less than 4 megabytes.

Translations and as-you-type spell checking are available for
more than 30 different languages on 6 continents, including
Chinese, Japanese, Hebrew, and Indonesian. An English language
thesaurus is available as a separate plugin.

The worldwide team of AbiWord volunteers is already hard at work
developing the next release of AbiWord, which will include advanced
features such as tables and support for more complex languages.
Users, writers, translators, testers, and developers are all
encouraged to try out AbiWord and see what they’d like to add
next.
We would particularly like to hear from Korean, Arabic and South
Asian developers and translators as we extend our coverage to all
of the World’s Languages.

Get AbiWord Now

AbiWord runs natively on Linux and other Unix variants, Windows,
QNX and is completely free. A version that runs on MacOSX is also
available.

You can learn more about AbiWord from our website at http://www.abiword.com/.

AbiWord can be downloaded from http://www.abiword.com/download/.
AbiWord can be extended via plugins which can be downloaded from:
http://www.abiword.com/plugins.phtml

The AbiWord team can be contacted via email at: abi@abisource.com.

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