AbiWord 0.7.14 Release Notes

XP:

Autosave option (Joaquín)

Background Color (Martin, Dom)

New Field types, fix Field bugs (Dom)

Excellent HTML Export work (John Clark)

Change Case (Dom)

Word DOC Importer improvements (Dom)

Applix Exporter (disabled by default) (Dom)

Spell-check improvements (Dom, Jeremy Teo)

Web Preview (Dom)

Tabbed Leaders (Patrick Lam)

Save As HTML (Dom)

Complete "Show Paragraphs" (Jesper)

Autotext (Dom)

Half-Page size (Dom)

Pspell 0.12 support (Dom)

HP/UX Port (Kevin Vajk)

XAP Module Work (Dom)

Export lists to RTF (Martin)

Support a "language" property (Tomas)

BiDi updates (Tomas)

New Default style settings (Karl)

Better Font Handling (Dom, Mike Nordell, Thomas F)

Header/Footer editing (Martin)

Export Ignored words to disk (Bill Carpenter)

Many backend changes, nailing a bunch of bugs and a much more stable formatter (Jesper)

Improve show-paragraph mode a bit (Jesper)

RTF import/export bugfixes (Hub, Diego)

Translated items fallback to en-US, and not to "TODO" (Joaquín)

LaTeX exporter bug fixes (Joaquín)

New Status Matrixes (Karl)

XP Speedups (Jesper, Dom, Tomas)

Bugs in-general: (Jesper, Dom, Martin, Diego, Others)

Specific Bugfixes: (1263, 542, 1018, 1119, 1255, 1256, 1258, 303, 1245, 1248, 946, 456, 1157, 1043, 536, 1200, 1199, 1147, 1159, 1154, 1167, 1174, 1175, 1176, 1163, 1169, 881, 1094, 1149, 1145, 1250)

GNOME:

ESC closes all dialogs now (Dom)

Sensible default button set for each dialog now (Dom)

New Dialogs (Dom)

More menus have icons now (Dom)

Make toolbars behave (Dom)

Dynamic menu fixes (Diego)

GTK+:

Insert Picture Dialog has a preview now (Dom)

Configurable default canvas color (will not get printed) (Martin)

New Dialogs (Dom)

Make timers behave better (Joaquín)

Language Dialog (Tomas)

Funky new splash-screen (create ~/.AbiSuite/splash.png to try it) (SamTH)

BeOS:

Graphics cleanups (coordinate and rectangle translation) (Jamie Montgomerie)

OUTSTANDING: The BeOS port needs a new maintainer. This port is lagging behind the others and as such may be extremely unstable. Email cinamod@hotmail.com or sam@uchichago.edu if you'd be interested in helping.

QNX:

Window size maintained between successive sessions (Thomas F)

Standardized toolbars are now the norm (Thomas F)

Menu entries update dynamically (Thomas F)

Toolbars, Statusbars and Rulers are all toggleable (Thomas F)

Printing should work, even from the toolbar! (Thomas F)

List Dialog (Thomas F)

Fields's Dialog (Thomas F)

Change Case Dialog (Thomas F)

More Windows Dialog (Thomas F)

Page Set-Up Dialog (Thomas F)

General clean up of the look of all dialogs (Thomas F)

Worked around Photon Crashing Problems

Motivated Hardworking Photon Developers to fix some critical bugs!

MacOS:

Major work here. AbiWord Actually compiles on MacOS X (but is not yet really functional) (Hub)

Win32:

Lots of toolbar work (Tom Briggs)

SaveAs Dialog updated (Tom Briggs)

Change Case Dialog (Mike Pritchett)

New Preferences Dialog layout (Michael Pritchett)

Line-Drawing Speedups (Mike Nordell)

Lanugage Dialog (Michael Pritchett)

Fixed Columns Dialog (Michael Pritchett)

Other:

Translations: ca-ES, pt-PT, nn-NO, es-ES, cs-CZ, fr-FR, hu-HU, it-IT, ja-JP, de-DE have been updated.

Artwork: Jakub Steiner