“The GNOME-Office team is proud to announce the immediate
availability of GNOME-Office 1.0. GNOME-Office is a suite of Free
Software productivity applications that seamlessly blend with the
GNOME Desktop Environment. GNOME-Office includes the AbiWord-2.0
Word Processor, GNOME-DB-1.0 Database Interface and Gnumeric-1.2.0
Spreadsheet.“AbiWord-2.0 is a cross-platform word processor that combines
state-of-the-art usability, powerful Word Processing features,
excellent interoperability with other Word Processors and many
unique plugins that can be used to extend the program as needed.
Among the new features in AbiWord-2.0 are: tables, footnotes,
endnotes, mail-merge, database connectivity, revision marks and
numerous server-side features such as command-line scripting. It
features superb MS Word import ability as well as perfect
import/export to Rich Text Format. Crowell Systems, suppliers of
software and services to the Medical Industry, have installed
AbiWord-2.0 on tens of thousands of seats…”
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