Release Notes for AbiWord 0.99.3 aka bilder-R-vi
The AbiWord team continues to make great progress towards 1.0. In the 4 weeks since 0.99.2 was released we've closed tons of bugs, completed RTF import/export, added great new image handling facilities and have made AbiWord significantly faster.
Users may particularly enjoy the new Script plugin which imports the output of any program into AbiWord, the AbiGimp plugin to enable image editing using the GIMP and the image resize dialog.
Finally users may rest easy in the knowledge that Abiword uses the latest (fixed)zlib in this release.
Abi the Ant and her intrepid hackers.
In particular:
- AbiGimp plugin - edit images with the Gimp - Martin , Jeremy Davis
- Script Happy plugin - Any program's output is captured by Abi - Dom
- Image Resize dialog - Martin, Dom
- Lots of documentation work - David Chart, Calvin Arndt
- Solaris build fixes - David Bolack
- Unix build fixes - Philippe Defert
- Mac OSX port -Hubert Figuiere
- Mac OSX improvements - Hubert Figuiere
- XHTML output improvements - Hubert Figuiere
- Major Server maintenance - Hubert Figuiere
- Compound Word support in spell checking - Per Larsson, Dom
- Word Perfect importer improvements - Marc Maurer
- Translation script improvements - Radek Vybiral
- Xdarwin improvements - Frank Franklin
- Many Build system fixes and improvements - Frank Franklin
- MS Word importer improvements - Frank Franklin, Valdimir, Dom
- Auto saved backup name fixes - Frank Franklin
- Plugin Build system - Frank Franklin
- AbiSpell additions and fixes - Gabriel Gerhardsson, Frank Franklin
- Allow more than 50 copies to be printed - Larry Kollar
- SVG plugin work - Frank Franklin, Dom
- BeOS updates - Stephane Fritsch
- Windows Incremental loader - Mike Pritchett
- Dingbat fonts to allow all AbiWord bullet symbols on win - Mike Pritchett
- Many plugin fixes for Windows - Mike Pritchett,
- Tabbed leaders for Windows - Mike Pritchett
- zlib updates - Mike Pritchett
- Windows Installer updates - Mike Pritchett
- Removed fixed sized buffers from imp/exp classes - Dom
- Plugin code updates - Dom
- Added heuristics to importers to cope with dodgy documents - Dom
- Beginnings of Grammer checker - Dom
- Automatic cleanup after plugins are removed - Dom, Martin
- workaround for Gnome-print bug with small fontsizes - Dom, Lauris
- Finish AbiWord - "new" dialog
- "New" dialog for Windows - Michael Pritchett
- More AbiWord Templates - Dom
- Import/Export Fields to RTF - Martin
- exporrt Headers to RTF - Martin
- Make Abi only draw once for significant speed up - Martin
- Major Header/Footer improvements - Martin
- Move to images and fields on a single click - Martin
Bugs fixed:
947, 2871, 2756, 1389, 1428, 1509, 1679, 1997, 2102, 2239, 2600, 2748, 2778, 2794, 2815, 2817, 2849, 2858, 2870, 2652, 2689, 2714, 2723, 2751, 2768, 2797, 2819, 2841, 2845, 2806, 2806 - David Bolack, Jeremy Davis, Philippe Defert, Hubert Figuiere, Frank Franklin, Dom , Marc Maurer, Mike Pritchett, Martin, Jesper Skov, Robert Wilhelm, Valdimir
New and updated translations.
Lots of work from Pierre Abbat and Rui Seabra - Translation Maintainers.
- French - Pierre Abbat
- Chinese (3 varieties) - Anthony Fok of ThizLinux
- Japanese - Masayuki Hatta
- Norwegian - Karl Trygve Kalleberg, Karl Ove Hufthammer
- Slovak - Martin Lacko
- Danish - Birger Langkjer
- Swedish - Per Larsson
- Finnish - Ismo Mäkinen
- Greek - Nikos Niktaris
- Polish - Andrzej Pruszynski, Piotr Banski
- Welsh - Rhoslyn Prys
- Swiss German - Alex Schroeder
- Czech - Radek Vybiral