AbiWord 0.9.5

This is the last release containing new features before 1.0.

New Features and Improvements for all platforms

“Normal Mode” ala MS Word. Gives more space to type. Martin, Dom

Bookmark support. Tomas Frydrych, Dom

Hyperlink support. Tomas Frydrych, Dom

Many fixes to Tabs and layout. Tomas Frydrych.

New and prettier icons. Alan Horkan, Kenneth, Michael Kobas, jimac, other Gnome artists

Basic Template Support. Dom

Insert File. Dom

MS Word document password support. Dom

File->Revert, Dom

Jpeg image support for platforms with jpeg libraries. Hub

Headers/footers exported to rtf, Matti Picus

RTF list import improvements. Matti Picus

Only needed strings are loaded into memory. Micheal Pritchett

Allow maximum column height to be set. Useful for Labels and Posters. Martin

Correctly remember added words to spell checker. Martin

List UI tweaks. Martin

BiDi Improvements. Tomas Frydrych

Dynamic Menu improvements for plugins. Martin, Joaquin

Enable First/Last/facing header/footer types. Martin

Page Numbering can be reset between section breaks. Martin

Perl Scripting improvements including printing. Joaquin

Status line improvements, Matti Picus

New Improved website, Jared Davis

T602 Importer, Petr Tomasek, Dom

Lots of plugin and image handling improvements. Dom

MS-Write Importer, Sean Young, Dom, Hub

KWord importer improvements. Christian, Dom

RTF import/export improvements, Hub, Matti Picus

MS Word import improvements, Frank Franklin, Dom

Many, many bug fixes of all sorts. Joaquin, Chris Chamberlin, Jeremy Davis, Hubert Figuiere, Frank Franklin, Tomas Frydrych, Martin Gansser, Alan Horkan, David Kaelbling, Dom Lachowicz, Aaron Lehmann, David Mandelin, Matti Picus, Michael Pritchett, Paul Rohr, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer, Pavel Roski, Gilles Saint-Denis, Martin Sevior, Jesper Skov, Sam TH, Rui Miguel Seabra, Pierre Abatt

New Features and Improvements for Unix.

Dynamic toolbars. Drag and drop toolbar icons to where you want them. Martin

Thesaurus Plugin. Jared Davis, Dom, Martin.

Support all image types using ImageMagick plugin. Dom

New Format Header/Footer dialog, Martin

New Bookmark dialog, Tomas, Dom

New Hyperlink Dialog, Dom, Tomas

Dialog for Password protected MS word documents, Dom

Enhanced Column Dialog. Martin

Fixes for non-WYSIWYG Printing and zooming. - Martin

XDarwin fixes - now part of main abiword tree. Frank Franklin

New Features for GNOME

All Unix fixes

Gdict plugin - Dom

New Features and Improvements for Windows.

Support all image types using ImageMagick plugin. Dom, Michael Pritchett

Fixes for Win32 plugins, Michael Pritchett, Dom, Mike Nordell

New Format Header/Footer dialog, Michael Pritchett

New Bookmark dialog, Michael Pritchett

New Hyperlink Dialog, Michael Pritchett

Enhanced Column Dialog. Michael Pritchett

Dialog for Password protected MS word documents, Michael Pritchett

Win32 installer updates. Michael Pritchett

Many other fixes, Michael Pritchett

Numerous win32 cursor improvements, Matti Picus

New Features and Improvements for MacOS

Many improvements, Mac have now toolbars, Hubert Figuiere

New Features and Improvements for BeOS

Some updates, Stephane Fritsch

New and updated translations.

Translation maintainers lots of work updating translations- Pierre Abatt, Rui Miguel Seabra

Catalan - Jesus Corrius

Hungarian - Tamas Decsi

French - Gilles Saint-Denis, Pierre Abatt

Portuguese - Rui Miguel Seabra

German - Martin Gansser

Norwegian Bokmal- Karl Trygve Kalleberg

Italian - Marco Innocenti

Norwegian Nynorsk - Karl Trygve Kalleberg