2.4.2 Changelog

Jean Brefort

Enable the pasting of charts from Gnumeric 1.6

Fix rendering position, low resolution and editing issues of embedded charts

Bugfixes: 9745

Daniel d'Andrada Tenório de Carvalho (INdT)

A *massive* number of updates to the OpenDocument importer!

An OpenDocument exporter!

Bugfixes: 9768, 9768

Rex Dieter

Fix bug 171921 from bugzilla.redhat.com

Hubert Figuiere

Fix a long standing memory leak in the encoding manager (Unix)

Various automated testing routines

Fix various memory leaks (one of several 100KB) in the image handling code from the RTF importer (bug 9643)

Fix memory leaks in the OpenWriter importer/exporter and other plugins

Make the automated testing routines a bit more reliable

Kill a lot of compilation warnings

Update the OpenDocument plugin build infrastucture (Mac OSX)

Bugfixes: 9439

Renato Filho

Fix a sponteneous quit on the Nokia 770

Initialize osso 'more properly' on the Nokia 770

Fix desktop and service files on the Nokia 770

Some fixes/cleanups to the file chooser dialog on the Nokia 770

Change the toolbar layout for Nokia 770

Bugfixes: 9700, 9701

Frank Franklin

Update Symbol font-remap table and fix Insert Symbol dialog (Mac OSX)

Update the math plugin data files (Mac OSX)

Substitute different unicode values for dot, tilde and OverBar in the math plugin

Installation README: add note on text rendering (bug 9654, Mac OSX)

Math plugin: load dictionary-combining.xml also, don't half the thickness when filling rectangles and make the default line thickness 0.5pt

Try to make fillRect more accurate (Mac OSX)

Don't add glyph advance to the width for the cmex10 font in glyphBox() (Mac OSX)

Math plugin: prevent crash when equation data is mysteriously missing

Add a check grammar preference to options dialog (Mac OSX)

Bugfixes: 9658

Tomas Frydrych

Avoid appending nothing to UT_String

Fix various bidi / directionality problems with RTL footnotes (bug 9793)

Fix word wrapping in RTL text where it added line brakes in the middle of words (bug 9792)

Bugfixes: 9618, 9622

Mark Gilbert

Bugfixes: 9473 and/or 8255, 9227

Dom Lachowicz

Add a new method called 'convert' which takes a suffix as input to the AbiCommand plugin

Use glib for readline argument parsing aka UNIX shell-style parsing in the AbiCommand plugin. It'll properly handle stuff with spaces in its name now.

The 'server' command in the AbiCommand plugin now takes an argument; remove lots of unused vars, header files, etc. general-purpose cleanup.

Push some logic about when to free streams down from AbiWord into WvWare

Remove confusing dead code from the GdkPixbuf loader (Unix)

Free the document if we can't import the file

Fix various libxml2 related memory leaks

Faster and leak-free image detection method (Unix)

Remove bits of unused code

Fix a crash on bogus-looking token in the MS Word importer

Initialize the type of fields in the MS Word importer

Stop some illegal writes in the MS Word importer related to fields

Remedy load-time regressions caused by UUIDs intended for the AbiCollab project, which is a 2.6+ project

(Finally) get image ownership right (i hope) in the MS Word importer

Free the memory when we can't decode the pixbuf to a PNG (Unix)

Bugfixes: 9667

Roland Kay

Update build instructions for MSVC71

Bugfixes: 9638

Marc Maurer

Build fix for 64-bit architectures

Make the OpenDocument plugin depend on a slightly lower libgsf version

GCC 4.1 build fix

Update the OpenDocument plugin build infrastucture (Windows)

Recover properly after a 'system suspend' on the Nokia 770

Several plugin build system updates

Fix the low image quality when printing (bug 6671, Unix)

Luca Padovani

Update the math plugin to sync it with gtkmathview 0.7.6. Fixes include: \hbar works correctly now, as well as several other glyphs (MSAM and MSBM fonts are now supported).

Martin Sevior

Don't crash if xft can't find a font (Unix)

Fix the placement of the footnote text in the document body after an RTF export (bug 8123)

Various fixes for loading the RTF-1.5 specification file

Fix underlining of first list-label in the RTF/MS Word importer

Fix the AbiCommand plugin "save" command and surpress the HTML dialog when "save as HTML" is called from AbiCommand

Bugfixes: 9631

Federico Schwindt

OpenBSD build fix (bug 9605)

Robert Staudinger

Bugfixes: 9675

Fridrich Strba

Revert a previous patch for table importing of Word Perfect documents; optimal results with libwpd 0.8.4

Import tabstops correctly in the Word Perfect importer

sum1

Make the bookmark toolbar button actually respond to document changes (semi-fix for bug 7337) (Windows)

Update the OpenDocument plugin build infrastucture (Windows)

Prevent dataloss when exporting a document with an equation in it to .txt (i.e. the exporter stopped when it hit PTO_Math).

Prevent a crash that occurs when dragging the textbox in attachment 3553 (from bug 9747) without a suitable plugin loaded (note: this issue is different from the one reported in the bug).

Tweak the menu to show that the Edit equation and Save embedded object both raise dialogs (Windows)

Fix Windows Tools Uninstaller Does Not Remove Grammar Checker Dictionaries (bug 9576)

Bugfixes: 9573, 9574, 9575

Robert Wilhelm

Unref the pixbuf loader in the image importer, fixes memory leak (Unix)

5% speedup for the RTF 1.5 spec by avoiding lots of setlocale calls

Unload all loaded plugins, removes some of the memory leaks shown at shutdown (Unix)

Plug a memory leak in the DocBook plugin

Plug a memory leak in the menu handling code (Unix)

Plug a memory leak in the image handling code (Unix)