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)

Save As HTML (Dom)

Autotext (Dom)

Half-Page size (Dom)

Pspell 0.12 support (Dom)

HP/UX Port (Kevin Vajk)

XAP Module Work (Dom)

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)

Backend changes, nailing a bunch of backend bugs (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)

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: 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

QNX:

Fields's Dialog (Thomas F)

Change Case Dialog (Thomas F)

Toolbar/Statusbar work (Thomas F)

More Windows Dialog (Thomas F)

MacOS:

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

Win32:

Lots of toolbar and statubar work (Tom Briggs)

SaveAs Dialog updated (Tom Briggs)

Change Case Dialog (Mike Pritchett)

New Preferences Dialog layout (Mike Pritchett)

Line-Drawing Speedups (Mike Nordell)

Other:

Translations: ca-ES, pt-PT, no-NO, es-ES, cs-CZ, fr-FR, hu-HU, it-IT have been updated.

Artwork: Jakub