Re: FYI - Abi reviewed in CPU magazine

On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 20:44 -0600, Andy Korvemaker wrote:
> AbiWord (2.2.5) was included in a review of text editors for Windows in
> the May 2005 issue of CPU Magazine (http://www.computerpoweruser.com)
> entitled "Let's Talk About Text, Baby" by Marty Sems (pages 76-78).
> Overall it was a very favorable review.
>
> A few quotes:
>
> "This light word processor should worry Microsoft every bit as much as
> Linux and OpenOffice.org. It's free, yet offers all of Word's most-used
> features without the bloat."
>
> "In short, few typical users won't find AbiWord perfectly adequate for
> word processing and text editing alike."
>
> "The free, powerful AbiWord processor is the smartest choice for most
> users, hands down."
>
> The reviewer liked that Abi was able to preserve all the formatting of
> his Word 2003 test document. He also liked that it was available for a
> wide variety of OSes and languages, and mentioned features such as
> justification, zoom, columns, mail merge, footnotes/endnotes, and
> revision tracking.
>
> A couple bugs/oddities were mentioned:
> 1) auto-spellcheck: "at times the AI seems a little confused as to what
> part of a word it underlines"
> 2) "My installation added a handful of international versions of
> Courier and Times New Roman to the fonts already present on my PC.
> However, most of the fonts I tried looked suspiciously similar, leading
> me to conclude that not all are fully supported."
>
> I did find it odd that Abi was included in a discussion of text editors
> (such as EditPad Lite and TextPad). One comment the reviewer had about
> the other apps was that they didn't import the formatting of his Word
> doc and displayed "greeking" at the top of every document (the
> formatting stuff, I assume), but as text editors I personally wouldn't
> expect them to do anything else.
>
> Anyway, a very nice review. :-)
>

Thanks for heads up Andy! This is very nice. I think we can pull some
quotes from here and place them on the website :-)

I really like:

"This light word processor should worry Microsoft every bit as much as
Linux and OpenOffice.org."

and

"The free, powerful AbiWord processor is the smartest choice for most
users, hands down."

Cheers

Martin
 
> andy
Received on Fri May 6 05:23:41 2005