Martin, You forgot to mention the significantly improved OpenOffice.org import/export. This is becoming more and more of a selling point as OpenOffice.org increases in popularity among linux/Windows users.
(incidentally, for those who care, the ooo conference was great, I'm still in Europe, hacking on wordperfect a bit, but mostly just enjoying Southern France. I'll have more stories to share when I get back to North America). Cheers, William Lachance [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > From: Martin Sevior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2003/03/26 Wed AM 04:25:42 EST > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Unstable development version 1.1.4 released. > > AbiWord-1.1.4 has been released! > > This version of AbiWord is basically feature complete for the final 2.0. > It offers substantial new features and tons of bug fixes over 1.1.3. > It can be downloaded from http://www.abisource.com > Many people find it stable enough enough for everyday use but we really > want lots of testing. Please report any bugs found to > http://bugzilla.abisource.com > We have built binaries for Windows, QNX and Redhat 8.0 GTK-only. We have > an excellent Gnome2.2 port but we have not made a binary for it because > RedHat 9 with it's Gnome 2.2 features is not released yet. To build it > you'll need Gnome 2.2 plus gal 1.99 or later. > > Among the highlights since 1.1.3. > Layout of text is now fully independent of resolution. We > guarantee 100% WYSIWYG at all zoom levels and for printed documents. - > Pat Lam, Dom > Glade and HIGification of dialogs - Marc Maurer > QNX specific fixes for new layout code - Johann Bjork > Win32 specific fixes for new layout code - Jordi Mass > Fully editable Footnotes and Endnotes - Martin > Text selection now uses theme colour - Dom > Text selection uses dark colour - Tomas Frydich > A huge number of C => C++ casts fixed - Andrew Dunbar > Major selection and motion speed ups - Martin > Gnome 2.2 port fully functional again - Dom (needs Gnome2 > libraries) > Drag and drop from Nautilus works - Dom > Gnome-print works - Dom > Copy and paste (X)HTML from moz, evolution to AbiWord -Dom > Print Justified text on Unix and Gnome - Dom > Embeddable bonobo Control ported to Gnome 2 - Dom, Martin > Contextual help for QNX - Johann Bjork > QNX uses utf-8 for all strings - Johann Bjork > XFT - fontconfig fixes - Joaquin Cuenca Abela > Documentation updates - David Chart > Translation coordination and verification - Pierre Abbat, Rui M. > Silva Seabra > Build system fixes and improvements - Francis J. Franklin, Mark > Gilbert > Improved (X)HTML import/export - Francis J. Franklin > Various OSX port improvements and fixes - hub > Grab and drag table lines and controls - Martin > Windows Build fixes - Jeremy Davis, Michael Pritchet > XML fixes - Jeremy Davis > AWN insanity and local drug supply - E.A. Zen > Word Perfect import/export - Will Lachance, Marc Maurer > rpm spec file fixes - Rui M. Silva Seabra > Tons of bugfixes and mem leaks plugged - Dom, Martin, Pat, Hub, > Jordi, Jesper, Jeremy Davis, Mikey Cooper, SamTH, Michael Pritchet, Rui M. > Silva Seabra, Tomas Fridych, Francis J. Franklin > > New and updated translations > Albainian - Besnik Bleta > German - Christian Neumair > Malay - Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan > Japanese - Masayuki Hatta > Yiddish - Raphael Finkel > Chinese - Anthony Fok > Amharic - Daniel Yacob > Mexican Spanish - Nikolai Vladychevski > Portugese - Rui M. Silva Seabra > Galician - Ramon Flores. > Dutch - Marc Maurer > French - Pierre Abbat > > > >
