AbiWord 0.9.5

The latest abiword is out. We couldn't  help adding lots of new features as well as fix bugs since 0.9.4.1.

Highlights include: Command Line Printing, Normal Mode, Thesaurus ,Dictionary support, All image type support (these last three via plugins) , Header/Footers for first/last/facing pages,  Dynamic Toolbars (drag and drop toolbar icons) for Unix/Gnome. Plus lots of other stuff and bugfixes.

This is the last release containing new features before 1.0. although new Perl scripts and plugins that use the existing API will be excepted.

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
• Command line printing, Dom
• 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
• ispell dictionary files for big-endian machines (like PPC). Frank Franklin

New Features for GNOME

• All Unix fixes
• Gdict plugin - Dom
• gdkpixbuf plugin to support lots of image types. - Martin

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