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AbiWord 2.2.8 Released

Submitted by uwog on Mon, 2005-06-06 06:05. AbiWord

This release has seen a lot of bugfixes, polish, and cleanups as we are
nearing the end of the 2.2 release cycle. We are working hard towards
AbiWord v2.4, which is shaping up nicely.

This release is mostly a bugfix release, with some minor new features.
The changes from 2.2.7 to 2.2.8 include, amongst others:

Make Text Folding actually work
Fix text justification on MacOSX
Initial support for the OpenDocument (.odt) file format

The full Changelog can be found here.

All users are advised to upgrade to this new release. Windows users are
advised to uninstall older versions first, and to make sure there are no files
left behind[1].

Availability
Main site: http://www.abisource.com/download/.

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

Enjoy!
The AbiWord Development Team

[1] The default installation location is "c:\Program Files\AbiSuite2". Please
remove it completely to make sure no old plugins are left in place.
Make sure you don't accidentally delete your important documents
that you might have stored there.

Ps. We are looking for people to help us maintain some of the binary packages,
such as the Autopackage. If you think you can help out, feel free to drop by on irc,
or send a mail to one of our mailing lists.

Abiword and gedit

Submitted by Anonymous George on Fri, 2005-06-10 10:40.

I've just installed the rpms of 2.2.8 on fedora core 3. Nice. I've got a question sort of related to abiword.

When I start gedit from cold (after a reboot), it takes about 2-3 seconds to start with a lot of disk grinding. When I started abiword, it comes up in a fraction of a second with almost none.

Why? Abiword is a much more complicated program. What are you guys doing right, that the gedit (and, truth be told, many GNOME apps) doing so badly wrong.

I wish there are better start

Submitted by FooBarWidget on Sat, 2005-06-11 15:43.

I wish there are better startup performance analysis tools for Linux. Many apps start slowly on a cold boot, or when there's heavy disk activity, but it's a real pain to analyze the problem because there's no way to empty the kernel cache. Which means that I have to basically restart every time I want to try something out. :(

Wrong question. You need to a

Submitted by robsta on Fri, 2005-06-10 13:03.

Wrong question. You need to ask what gedit does wrong ;)

Seriously, it's not that simple comparing startup performance.
If you e.g. run the gnome version of abiword with lots of plugins it of course takes longer than the plain gtk version without any plugins. The same if probably true for gedit.

That said we are a bit proud of abi's startup performance and try not to do very harmful things. Still we can get better!

try again

Submitted by Motor on Sat, 2005-06-11 09:47.

Wrong question. You need to ask what gedit does wrong ;)

Read it again.. that's exactly the question I did ask (anonymously).

Well, the gedit team actually

Submitted by uwog on Fri, 2005-06-10 13:49.

Well, the gedit team actually looked into this. As far as they can see (correct me if I'm wrong), it's actually Bonobo which is slowing gedit down. As AbiWord doesn't use bonobo, we don't have that problem.

I can't see that myself

Submitted by Motor on Sat, 2005-06-11 09:57.

Not being a developer on any of these apps, this is purely opinion... but: When I start evolution (which uses Bonobo pretty heavily), it loads and runs quickly like Abiword. Something about gedit is just broken.

The Help Documents are bad!

Submitted by Anonymous George on Thu, 2005-06-09 22:21.

The gnome version should use scroll-keeper etc etc. not popup a web browser ... or if so use better html :-D

how can one help out making better help docs??

Please get in touch with us i

Submitted by robsta on Fri, 2005-06-10 05:47.

Please get in touch with us in the #abiword irc channel (irc.gimp.org) or by posting to our developers mailing list (signup details here).

Cheers,
- Rob

Debian and Ubuntu version? by Anonymous George

Yes it can. In fact, the late

Submitted by FooBarWidget on Tue, 2005-06-07 08:58.

Yes it can. In fact, the latest 1.0.2 release of autopackage specifically supports Ubuntu's usage of sudo. I installed Ubuntu just for the sake of making autopackage work on it.
Please read http://autopackage.org/docs/howto-install/ for installation instructions.

The work done on the export .doc is excellent by Anonymous George

the .doc file abiword saves i

Submitted by Anonymous George on Wed, 2005-06-08 09:43.

the .doc file abiword saves is just a renamed .rtf, afaik.

but support for opendocument file format is wery pleasant news indeed, even at this preliminary state.

The doc file abiword saves as is rft by Anonymous George

Only Windows? by Anonymous George

The Autopackage for linux was

Submitted by Anonymous George on Mon, 2005-06-06 08:07.

The Autopackage for linux was available too. Furthermore, I just uploaded RPMs for Fedora Core 1 and 2. RedHat Linux 9 and Fedora Core 3 will follow tonight, as well as the MacOSX build.

I needed some sleep, hence the delay.

Well deserved rest, I'd say ;

Submitted by rehdon on Mon, 2005-06-06 11:39.

Well deserved rest, I'd say ;o)

rehdon