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)
• Tabbed Leaders (Patrick Lam)
• Save As HTML (Dom)
• Complete "Show Paragraphs" (Jesper)
• Autotext (Dom)
• Half-Page size (Dom)
• Pspell 0.12 support (Dom)
• HP/UX Port (Kevin Vajk)
• XAP Module Work (Dom)
• Export lists to RTF (Martin)
• 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)
• Many backend changes, nailing a bunch of bugs and a much more stable formatter (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, Andrei Stankevich)
• 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)
• Dynamic 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: The 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 if you'd be interested in helping.

QNX:

• Window size maintained between successive sessions (Thomas F)
• Standardized toolbars are now the norm (Thomas F)
• Menu entries update dynamically (Thomas F)
• Toolbars, Statusbars and Rulers are all toggleable (Thomas F)
• Printing should work, even from the toolbar! (Thomas F)
• List Dialog (Thomas F)

Fields's Dialog (Thomas F)

• Change Case Dialog (Thomas F)
• More Windows Dialog (Thomas F)
• Page Set-Up Dialog (Thomas F)
• General clean up of the look of all dialogs (Thomas F)
• Worked around Photon Crashing Problems
• Motivated Hardworking Photon Developers to fix some critical bugs!

MacOS:

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

Win32:

• Lots of toolbar work (Tom Briggs)
• SaveAs Dialog updated (Tom Briggs)
• Change Case Dialog (Mike Pritchett)
• New Preferences Dialog layout (Michael Pritchett)
• Line-Drawing Speedups (Mike Nordell)
• Lanugage Dialog (Michael Pritchett)
• Fixed Columns Dialog (Michael Pritchett)

Other:

• Translations: ca-ES, pt-PT, nn-NO, es-ES, cs-CZ, fr-FR, hu-HU, it-IT, ja-JP, de-DE have been updated.
• Artwork: Jakub Steiner