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AbiWord-2.4.1 released.

Submitted by msevior on Fri, 2005-10-14 06:22. AbiWord
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The AbiWord team is happy to announce AbiWord v2.4.1. Since the 2.4.0
release we have received a lot of great feedback from our users, which
led to a number of useful bugreports as well. This is the first
bugfixing releasing in the new stable 2.4 series to address some of
those bugreports.

The changes from v2.4.0 to v2.4.1 include, amongst others:

* CAN-2005-2972: Fix several stack-based buffer overflows in the RTF
importer
* Fix the BiDi direction in menu strings (Windows)
* Fix various crashers related to Equation editing

The full Changelog can be found at
http://www.abisource.com/changelogs/2.4.1.phtml

Because of the fixed security bug in the RTF importer, we strongly
advise all users to upgrade to this latest release.

Note to Mac OSX users: please aware that the font rendering in 2.4.1 is
still a work-in-progress. Depending on the fonts used the quality of the
rendering may be sub-optimal. We are working hard to address this issue.

We are very much interested in any bug you may find. Please report these
to http://bugzilla.abisource.com/.

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

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

Enjoy!

The AbiWord Development Team

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libgda 1.9.x sickness by Anonymous George

Is there any plan for software of presentation,

Submitted by Anonymous George on Mon, 2005-10-17 01:24.

like ppt or something else?

there is some code

Submitted by robsta on Mon, 2005-10-17 01:44.

There is some code in http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/present/. Seems it's improved only at a slow pace at the moment so feel free to help out.

And there is already an app by Anonymous George

Floating info area.

Submitted by Anonymous George on Sat, 2005-10-15 19:12.

I also love the floating toolbars that OOo2 has when creating tables etc. Hopefully Abiword will support somethin similar as well as live tables etc while creating, like Office 12.

Also will we ever be able to just move a grphic around the document and have it stick in place? That would be fantastic.

Our dialogs already "float"

Submitted by msevior on Sun, 2005-10-16 20:30.

All our dialogs that manipulate tables already "float". I personally think our merge cells and splt cells dialogs are significantly easier to use than MS Word and OO.o.

Columns can be selected with a single click and both rows and columns can be moved around tables via select then drag and drop (or copy and drag and drop).

Regarding images, in AbiWord-2.4 right click on the image, choose "set Positioned Image". Then drag it to where-ever you want and it will stick. Text will flow around it.

You can change it back with the "format image" dialog.

Cheers

Martin

Re: Our dialogs already float. by Anonymous George

Amazing!

Submitted by msevior on Mon, 2005-10-17 16:58.

A large fraction of all our dialogs are "modeless" which is what I think you mean when you say "float". You can keep typing and leave the dialogs up and running.

Try "split cells" on the table toolbar for a start.
Try "word count" in the "tools" menu. What your statistics update as you type.
Try "Bullets and numbering"..
Try insert equation...

Give it a go!

Martin

Re: Amasing! by Anonymous George

Prolly not for AbiWord

Submitted by msevior on Tue, 2005-10-18 17:37.

I don't think we'll do that in AbiWord. It seems too intrusive, like clippy.

Mostly when people are in tables they just want to add/delete/copy/paste stuff, not manipulate the table.

Live toolbars suck

Submitted by Anonymous George on Sun, 2005-10-16 13:15.

No offense but I really dislike the live toolbars in Office 12 and OOo2. I like the toolbars to stay where they are and not appear and disappear everytime i click on something that triggers them.

Re: Live toolbars suck by Anonymous George

on the radar

Submitted by msevior on Sat, 2005-10-15 17:46.

Hi Roman,
Thanks for your input.

We plan to address the slowness for large documents in 2.6. We have identified a number of ottle-necks and hopefully will get them fixed in 2.6.

I'll fix the lack of gutter in 2.6 too. It's straight-forward, I just didn't realize what it was useful for for a long time :-)

Martin

thank you

Submitted by jurkech on Sat, 2005-10-15 19:18.

hi Martin,

thank you very much for a quick response. abiword is application that has superb support from you and other maintainers on this forum, this is highly appreciated! just last question: any time-frame for the 2.6, even very approximate? afaik there is no development branch right now, right? anouncement about further progress of abiword is certainly worthy of a full article here and on the abiword homepage, i think.

thanks again,

roman

AbiWord 2.6

Submitted by uwog on Sun, 2005-10-16 08:27.

I just branched HEAD off, so we are on our way to 2.6 again. Timeframe? Not sure, about 9 months I hope.

a few remarks

Submitted by jurkech on Sat, 2005-10-15 15:10.

hi,

i really love abiword. it produces the best looking output on my old matrix printer, is fast to start, has almost all that i care for. but i have a few questions about functionality improvements:

- very slow with longer documents. i know this issue is really old and i'd like to know if there is any improvement planned for this in the near future

- no gutter for page margins is possible, also connected to this - page numbers mirrored (accros of the gutter)

- small caps text formatting. i know it's just a fancy bullshit but fancy still :)

anyway, thanks again for this great application. cheers,

roman