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About

AbiWordDevelopment - Plans, brainstorming, big open issues
Unit Test - Code unit testing framework
Annotations - Implementation if annotations, part of Summer of Code 2007
AbiCollab - Plugin to allow instant collaboration between users of AbiWord. What you type appears in their document as you type and vice versa.
AbiWord SDK - Starting from version 2.6 it is possible to link in libabiword and use all of abiword's powerful document processing features in either GUI or server applications.
PyAbiWord - Python bindings to AbiWidget
AbiWidget - A Word Processing canvas that is a genuine GtkWidget and used as such
PyAbiWordMethods - A list of the methods implemented for the Python bindings of AbiWidget
AbiCommand - Command line interface into AbiWord. With this you can run Abiword in a server environment to do document processing. Very, very useful for sophisticated web servers.
Windows Unicode Port - The remaining issues left to fix after having ported trunk to Unicode on Windows.
HTML exporter - Plugin for exporting Abiword document to HTML/XHTML files
EPUB plugin - Plugin for exporting Abiword document to EPUB2 and EPUB3 file formats. Example of HTML exporter and importer plugins usage for building custom plugin.

Getting the source code - How to use svn to get the source code
Developing AbiWord on Windows using Visual C++ (Comprehensive) - How to download, compile, and improve AbiWord (development trunk) using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 (Express Edition works!)
Compiling AbiWord - How to compile AbiWord
Compiling AbiWord on Maemo - How to compile AbiWord for Nokia Maemo plaform (N8x0)
Compiling AbiWord on Mac - How to compile AbiWord on Mac, sort of
Compiling AbiCollab on Linux/Unix - How to compile the AbiCollab plugin on Linux and Unix platforms
Compiling AbiWord 2.6.x on Windows - Instructions using MinGW/MSYS and the 2.6.x and earlier "diving make" build system
Compiling AbiWord 2.6.x Dependencies on Windows - How to compile some AbiWord dependencies on Windows using MinGW
Debugging AbiWord - Some hints on how to use a debugger.
New AbiWord Translation - How to translate AbiWord in a new language
Update AbiWord Translation - How to update an existing translation of AbiWord
AbiWord Debian Package Instructions - How Debian/Ubuntu packages (including our own Ubuntu PPA) are handled.
Write flickering free code - How to take advantage of the double buffering.