AbiWord 0.9.3 Release Notes

These changes have been made since 0.9.2. Note that not all changes will be visible in the binaries; some are only available in debugging builds of AbiWord because they are still full of bugs, while others account for changes in the build process rather than in the program itself.

Nils Barth

Exporter bug fix.

KWord exporter. This is not yet complete, but it is functional.

Adrian Bunk

Fix for autoconf to handle different versions more elegantly.

John Clark

Modified XHTML export to use relative paths and put all the image files in a subdirectory, and put that subdirectory in a subdirectory with the XHTML file. This keeps all the files together.

Fixed a bug with PUBLICs in the code.

Jeremy Davis

Fixed compilation problems.

Made the Windows build remember where AbiWord’s windows were before, and reuse that position.

Tania Ferreira

Portuguese translation update.

Hubert Figuiere

Fixed a configuration bug which allowed people to build a GNOME version of AbiWord on systems without GNOME.

Fixed bug 1647, so that Web Preview now works on PPC architectures.

More work on MacOS port.

Ben Fowler

Work on MacOS port.

Francis Franklin

Patch so that Abi builds with gcc 3.0.

Added the beginnings of SVG import.

Stephane Fritsch

Bug fixes for the BeOS version.

Tomas Frydrych

Fixes to the bidirectional build dealing with left and right arrows, the pilcrow, MS Word import, and multicolumn sections.

Some end note work.

Fix to one of the font utilities.

Gabriel Gerhardsson

Dictionary file rpms.

Marco Innocenti

Italian strings update.

William Lachance

More work on the Word Perfect importer.

Dom Lachowicz

Added a preference option to determine whether closing the last window exits AbiWord or opens a new blank document.

Fix compile problems with iconv.

Code rationalisation to help with exception handling.

Minor clean up in KWord export.

Fixed the DOCTYPE declaration in all AbiWord documents so that it is standards compliant.

Tweaked HTML export to make it nearer HTML than XHTML.

Added ability to change default file type for save as. No UI as yet; you need to edit the prefs file by hand.

MS Word importer can now handle small caps.

Helped with basic KWord importer.

Little automake fixes.

Fixed some memory leaks.

Cleaned up some code.

Internal code changes that are doubtless important, but which I don’t understand, in UT_iconv.

Martin Lacko

Slovak localization.

Patrick Lam

Bug fix for 964. This was a nasty bug that could lead to AbiWord closing an altered document without prompting to save changes.

New rand function to get around broken implementations in certain compilers.

Other bug fixes.

David Mandelin

Patched a code formatting problem which was preventing compilation.

Patches for cross-platform portability.

rint() support on Windows.

Kjartan Maaras

Norwegian translation update.

Christian Meyer

Basic KWord importer.

Michael Pritchett

Updated the Windows column dialog for the bidirectional build.

Work on the Windows Options dialog.

Work on the Windows Page Setup Dialog.

Made it possible to edit built-in styles on Windows.

Fixed crashes in tabbed dialogues on Windows.

Fixed a warning on Windows.

Fixed a couple of build problems.

Cross platform fixes.

Paul Rohr

Fix so that the new document opened when you Close the last document opens in the same window as the old document.

Rui Miguel Seabra

Portuguese translation update.

Martin Sevior

Removed a debug message that was annoying Hub.

Added the ability to read Word 97 and later list structures from rtf.

Changed code to make AbiWord explicitly set the foreground color to black on Linux.

Made it possible to edit built-in styles.

Fixed enormous numbers of bugs with column and section breaks.

Added the ability to set a maximum column height.

Fixed a bug which was making bits of the final characters in line vanish from the display.

Fixed a bug in the source code configuration which was turning the Style dialog off.

Fixed a bug in the bi-directional code which was preventing AbiWord from compiling.

Fixed a compile problem on Linux.

Other bug fixes, including 1815, 1817, and 1840.

Jakub Steiner

New splash screen.

Sam TH

Fix to make OSX build compile.

Stanislav Visnovsky

Slovak localization.