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AbiWord-2.3.0 released.

Submitted by msevior on Tue, 2005-05-10 20:28. AbiWord
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The AbiWord team, developers of the award-winning multi-platform Word Processor, is very proud to announce AbiWord v2.3.0, the first snapshot of the development that will lead to AbiWord 2.4.

This snapshot allows interested developers, testers and users a sneak preview into the future of AbiWord.

New features of this release include (amongst others):

Table to Text
Tight Textwapping around Images
Grammar Checking (Plugin)
Math Support (Plugin)
GNOME Office Chart Embedding (Plugin, experimental)
OpenDocument Support (Plugin, experimental)

AbiWord v2.3.0 is parallel installable with AbiWord v2.2 so users can try it out without disturbing their stable AbiWord 2.2 version. We are very much interested in any bug you may find. Please report these to http://bugzilla.abisource.com/.

While we encourage people to try out the new snapshot, please be aware that is a development snapshot and is not expected to be stable in any sort of way.

Availability: http://www.abisource.com/download/development.phtml .

More information: http://www.abisource.com/ .

Enjoy!

The AbiWord Development Team

Abiword has been unusable.

Submitted by Anonymous George on Thu, 2005-05-12 18:56.

I'm running Gnome 2.10 Hoary, with CUPS fully operational, an HP Deskjet with the correct drivers, and with all due respect . . . .

Abiword butchers text.

Tracking problems: Characters of words are unevenly spaced. How can this occur in 2005? This is beyond unprofessional.

Kerning problems: Still not what it should be.

SmartQuotes: nonexistent, though the option is there. Helllooo! Character mapping!! Why does Abi use inch marks in place of proper quotations?? Seriously . . .

Hyphenation: seems to be "on" by default, but it is either broken or completely unintuitive. Justified text cannot exist without proper hyphenation. I'm forced to do it all by hand now.

Apparently, I have been told that these are all bugs present in Abiword 2.2.7 (and I've seen them in previous versions.) I hope they've been fixed. Right now, from a professional's viewpoint, Abiword is unusable.

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