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AbiWord-2.3.0 released.

Submitted by msevior on Tue, 2005-05-10 20:28. AbiWord

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

It does

Submitted by Anonymous George on Sat, 2005-05-14 16:28.

If you mean those letter-spacing problems, yes, they do show up on the printed page.

AbiWord is a WYSIWYG word processor, so what you see on-screen is what you'll see on the printed page.

OpenOffice 2.0 running on Ubuntu, Gnome 2.10, for example, does not have this problem. It's letter-spacing/tracking is fine.

In fact 99.9% of word processors do not exhibit this kind of problem.

Examples, from history, and now:

ProWrite - Amiga (1992) - Tracking is fine
ClarisWorks 3x-4x series - Macintosh - Tracking is fine
Wordperfect (I've used several versions of the years) - Tracking is fine.
MSword (through many versions) PC - Tracking is fine.
OpenOffice (from 1x - to current) - Tracking is fine.

I've never seen a plain text editor behave this way, either.

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