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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

What you said needed to be said

Submitted by Anonymous George on Sun, 2005-05-15 12:34.

Abiword is a wonderful idea, but it is ultimately completely unusable. Poor import and export filters, unstability, poor printing code...

The saddest thing is that Abiword is precisely what Linux needs: a fast and powerful word processor that looks good. I like the way it looks, but I have to go for Openoffice or even Kword for any serious work. Kword isn't as powerful as OpenOffice either, but it is far more stable than Abiword.

I wish Abiword devs would stop all feature additions and spend six months just quashing bugs and making sure that the basics just work for everyone.

If I sound overtly critical, I don't mean to be. I really admire your work and wish that I could write software so that I could help.

Thanks and looking forward to a better and brighter Abiword.

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