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AbiWord in the Press

This is a collection of articles and books that mention AbiWord, but dont necessarily review it (i.e. a supplement to the Reviews page, not a replacement). Quotes have been picked with the utmost partiality :).

Articles

  • Biersdorfer, J.D. "Opening Word Files On a PC With Linux." _The New York Times_ 1 Jan. 2004: G4.
    • "AbiWord (www.abiword.com) is another free word-processing program that can open some types of Microsoft Word files. There are versions of AbiWord for Linux, Windows, Mac OS X and other operating systems."
      • Note: this article can be found online.


  • Fioretti, Marco. "The OASIS standard for office documents." Linux Journal March 2004: Article 4.
    • "AbiWord has both import and less-advanced export filters, but they are not 100% complete. Contributions to improve them are extremely welcome."
      • Note: this article can be found online.


  • Gagne, Marcel. "The Ultimate (but small) Linux Box!" Linux Journal Sept. 2002: 26-28.
    • "Arguably, the word processor is the single most important desktop application in the office. What could we possibly do in terms of a full-featured, powerful word processor that handles the ubiquitous MS Word format documents? Keeping something like this small is a tall order, I agree, but how does the 1,700KB of AbiWord sound?"
      • Note: this article can be found online.


  • Gromak, Tom. "Mac community comes out in support of the Mini." _Detroit News_ 10 March 2005.
    • "The best word processor money cant buy: AbiWord (free, from http://www.abisource.com/). Wow. I installed Microsoft Office 2003 for OSX on the Mini, and was mostly underwhelmed by the Mac version of Word - especially when you consider the price tag. So I set out to find a word processor that wouldnt set me back too much. I found AbiWord and it quickly has become my word processor of choice, even more so than the writing tools Apple includes in the box. AbiWord is quick, intuitive and reads and writes other document formats - including Words - to make sharing files easy and painless."


  • Isci, Canturk, and Margaret Martonosi. "Runtime Power Monitoring in High-End Processors: Methodology and Empirical Data." _Proceedings of the 36th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture, 3-5 December 2003, San Diego, California_. Washington, D.C.: IEEE, 2003: 93-104.
    • "In order to demonstrate our ability to model power closely even at low CPU utilizations, we also experimented with practical desktop tools: AbiWord for text editing, Mozilla for web browsing and Gnumeric for numerical analysis."


  • "INSITE OUT: And the word is AbiWord." _The Nation (Thailand)_ 15 Feb. 2004.
    • "The first time I used AbiWord as a substitute word processor, I thought I was dreaming. You know, one of those dreams where you buy a lottery ticket and actually win, where you ask Miss World out and shes thrilled."
      • Note: this article can be found online.



  • Knudsen, Craig. "AbiWord: AbiSources Open Source Word Processor." Linux Journal Aug. 1999.
    • "What separates AbiWord (see Figure 1) from the other open-source word processors available for Linux? It is also available for Windows and is a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor."
      • Note: this article can be found online.


  • Lebl, George, Elliot Lee, and Miguel de Icaza. "GNOME, its state and future" Linux Journal Feb. 2000: Article 3.
    • "AbiWord (see Figure 3) is a project led by Source-Gear. It is a cross-platform word processor that can import your Word files. The word processor has gotten attention from many communities, since they can run the same word processor across UNIX, Win32, BeOS and MacOS."
      • Note: this article can be found online.


  • Merrion, Paul. "Software entrepreneur crafts tools, and gives them away." Crains Chicago Business 21.50 (1998): 50.
    • "AbiSource is believed to be the only open-source developer of desktop tools for everyday users, starting with AbiWord, a word processor that is slated to hit the market early next year."


  • Murali, J. "On-line social worksheets." _The Hindu_ 11 April 2005.
    • "Although several word-processing packages such as Word and WordPerfect are quite popular among the computing fraternity, they are too resource hungry to be used on all machines. To help those users, who do not need such elaborate packages, simple free packages like Abiword (http://www.abisource.com/) are in place."


  • Pegoraro, Rob. "Help File." _The Washington Post_ 1 May 2005: F6.
    • "Finally, you can try a free word processor, AbiWord, that can open and save in WordPerfect format."
      • Note: this article can be found online.


  • Powell, James E. "Office." PC World 19.12 (2001): 150.
    • "While Microsofts Word grows fatter with seldom-used features, AbiSources AbiWord holds appeal as a trim yet capable, no-cost program. Its nimble, installs quickly, and sports a simple menu."
      • Note: this article can be found online.


  • Rubenking, Neil J. "Word Processors." PC Magazine 23.20 (2004): 103.
    • "Need a free word processor without the baggage of a whole office suite? Try AbiWord or Jarte. Open-source AbiWord 2.0 looks and acts remarkably similar to Microsoft Word. Its help system is a work in progress, but if you know Word, youll find AbiWord easy to use. Among its many advanced features are mail merge, columns, revision marking, footnotes/endnotes, and automatic misspelled-word flagging"
      • Note: this article can be found online.


  • Schaumann, Jan. "More than word(s)." Linux Journal Nov. 2001: Article 4.
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      • Note: an article placeholder can be found online.


  • Sems, Marty. "Lets Talk About Texy, Baby." Computer Power User. 5.5 (2005): 76-78.
    • "This light word processor should worry Microsoft every bit as much as Linux and OpenOffice.org. Its free, yet offers all of Words most-used features without the bloat."
      • Note: this article can be found online.


  • Tweney, Dylan. "101 Fabulous Freebies." PC World. 24.5 (2006): (unknown pages).
    • "If all you need is a word processor, try AbiWord, a lightweight and full-featured word processor that is compatible with Microsoft Word documents. It looks and feels a lot like Word, too."
      • Note: this article can be found online.


  • Williams, Adrian. "Advantages to being small." _The Daily News (New Plymouth, New Zealand)_ 4 Aug. 2003: 7.
    • "Sure, if you compare AbiWord with MS Word, MS Word comes out in front in terms of features, but AbiWord is concise, simple to use and very fast."


  • "Word Alternative Wanted." _Bangkok Post_ 25 May 2005.
    • "One of the best, and an underground favourite, is Abiword. It is an open source type of program that can read and write files from Word and Word Perfect, but operates in its own way. It has spell checkers for English and a couple of dozen other languages."
      • Note: this article can be found online.


  • Wright, Charles. "I want to be a tech hippie." Australian CPA 73.5 (2003): 58-60.
    • "There is a substantial array of alternative programs for Linux in practically every category - many of them absolutely free. For word processing you might use AbiWord or Writer, one of the components of the Open Office suite that began life as Star Office."
      • Note: this article can be found online.

Books

  • Ball, Bill, and David Pitts. _Red Hat Linux 7 Unleashed_. Sams, 2000.
    • "This shows that the package, abiword-0.7.10-3, is installed on your system. However, if you use the rpm command and you get output like this..."


  • Ball, Bill, and Hoyt Duff. _Red Hat Linux Fedora 3 Unleashed_. Que, 2004.
    • "AbiWord is notable for its use of plug-ins, or integrated helper applications, that extend its capabilities. These plug-ins add language translation, HTML editing, a thesaurus, a Linux command shell, and an online dictionary, among other functions and features. If you just need a lightweight but powerful word processing application, you should examine AbiWord."


  • Bornstein, Niel M., and Edd Dumbill. _Mono: A Developers Notebook_. OReilly, 2004.
    • "A toolbar is a special container for other widgets that can be moved around the window by the grab bar, seen at the left side. It can even be "ripped" off and placed as a standalone window. Complex GNOME applications, such as the AbiWord word processor, make good use of toolbars."


  • Bradford, Ed, and Lou Mauget. _Linux and Windows Interoperability Guide_. Prentice Hall, 2001.
    • "Abiword is also supplied. It handles several word processing formats, including Microsoft Word 97 format."


  • Dalheimer, Matthias Kalle, Lar Kaufman, and Matt Welsh. _Running Linux, 3rd Edition_. OReilly, 1999.
    • "A full-featured word processor that uses the GNOME libraries as its engine and in the future will take full advantage of all of GNOMEs component technology. This means users will be able to link and embed spreadsheets from Gnumeric or graphics from the GIMP into AbiWord documents or link AbiWord documents back into those programs."


  • Dalheimer, Matthias Kalle, et al. _Running Linux, 4th Edition_. OReilly, 2002.
    • "Abiword, like Gnumeric, is designed to be familiar to people who have used other, similar applications in the past."


  • Dean, Jeff. _LPI Linux Certification in a Nutshell_. OReilly, 2001.


  • Dornfest, Rael, and Kevin Hemenway. _Mac OS X Hacks_. OReilly, 2003.
    • "Even worse, the attachment is a Microsoft Word document, and youve yet to pony up the dough for Office under OS X. How do you read it? Run out and get some large Word equivalent like AbiWord or AppleWorks, or download a free, 300K utility?"


  • Duncan, Andy, and Sean Hull. _Oracle & Open Source_. OReilly, 2001.
    • "abiword: A word-processing program capable of reading all your old Word documents (and you thought you were chained to Windows forever?)"


  • Figgins, Stephen, Ellen Siever, and Aaron Weber. _Linux in a Nutshell, 4th Edition_. OReilly, 2003.
    • "For example, a spreadsheet created by Gnumeric (a GNOME spreadsheet program) can be placed as an object into an AbiWord document..."


  • Figgens, Stephen, et al. _Linux in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition_. OReilly, 2000.
    • "For example, a spreadsheet created by gnumeric (a GNOME spreadsheet program) can be placed as an object into an AbiWord document."


  • Gagne, Marcel. _Moving to Linux: Kiss the Blue Screen of Death Goodbye!_. Addison Wesley, 2003.
    • "Another excellent word processor worth your consideration is Abiword."


  • Gagne, Marcel. _Moving to the Linux Business Desktop_. Addison Wesley, 2004.
    • "Abiwords main strengths are its size and performance. This is a lightweight application that performs well even on slower machines. It starts up fast and is excellent at what it does."


  • Griffiths, Rob. _Mac OS X Power Hound, Panther Edition_. OReilly, 2004.
    • "At print time, Fink provides more than 2,800 programs, ranging from abiword, an open source word processor, to the KDE window manager."


  • Harris, Nick, et al. _Linux Handbook: A Guide to IBM Linux Solutions and Resources_. IBM, 2003.
    • "Yellow Dog Linux includes a graphical installer; dual-boot using BootX or yaboot; GNOME including Nautilus & Evolution, KDE, the "Liquid" theme default CUPS print system; apt-get for RPM; OpenOffice; Mozilla; Galeon, Evolution; AbiWord; and Netatalk.1."


  • Hsiao, Aron. _The Concise Guide to XFree86 for Linux_. Que, 2000.
    • "The appearance of Gtk applications is three-dimensional and similar to the appearance of Windows applications. Shown here is the AbiWord editor from AbiSource."


  • Jepson, Brian, and Dave Taylor. _Learning Unix for Mac OS X, 2nd Edition_. OReilly, 2002.
    • "abiword 1.0.2-2 Open-source word processor"


  • Jepson, Brian, and Dave Taylor. _Learning Unix for Mac OS X Panther_. OReilly, 2003.
    • "abiword 1.0.2-2 Open-source word processor"


  • Langham, Matthew, and Carsten Ziegeler. _Cocoon: Building XML Applications_. New Riders, 2002.
    • Contains an example of RSS data from linuxtoday.com with: "< title>AbiWord Weekly News #75 by Jesper Skov< /title>" [no spaces in title tags]


  • Lavigne, Dru. _BSD Hacks_. OReilly, 2004.
    • "abiword sampledoc.abw &"


  • Matteson, Susan. _Linux Desktop Garage_. Prentice Hall, 2005.
    • "AbiWord is a great word-processing program. The application is cross-platform, with versions for Windows and Mac OS X as well as Linux. AbiWord meshes well with Word documents, and it also loads OpenOffice, rich-text, Word Perfect, and HTML documents."



  • McCarty, Bill. _Learning Red Hat Linux, 2nd Edition_. OReilly, 2002.
    • "GNOME is specially associated with the desktop suite known as GNOME Office, which includes the AbiWord word processor, the Gnumeric spreadsheet application, and 15 other applications."


  • McCune, Mike. _Integrating Linux and Windows_. Prentice Hall, 2000.
    • "AbiWord is Gnomes word processor. It doesnt have all the features of many of the other word processors, but it is very fast and has a clean interface."


  • Rankin, Kyle. _Knoppix Hacks_. OReilly, 2004.
    • "Aimed at lower-end PCs, LightGUI features the XFCE4 desktop and contains a reasonable amount of lighter tools. It was the initial version of Morphix, and the aim has been to keep LightGUI small enough to fit on 210 MB mini CDR (W). LightGUI includes Abiword, Gnumeric, Dillo, and Firefox."


  • Raymond, Eric Steven. _The Art of Unix Programming_. Addison Wesley, 2003.
    • "Many modern Unix projects, such as OpenOffice.org and AbiWord, now use XML compressed with zip(1) or gzip(1) as a data file format."


  • Smith, Roderick. _The Multi-Boot Configuration Handbook_. Que, 2000.
    • "AbiWord runs on Windows, various UNIX versions (including Linux and FreeBSD), and BeOS, but not on OS/2. The fact that AbiWord runs on BeOS sets it apart from the other cross-platform word processors I describe here."


  • Smith, Roderick W. _Linux in a Windows World_. OReilly, 2005.
    • "Of these file types, Microsoft Word files are the most difficult to handle. OpenOffice.org and StarOffice provide the best Microsoft Word import ability, although AbiWord is also reasonably good."


  • Sobell, Mark G. _A Practical Guide to Red Hat Linux 8_. Addison Wesley, 2002.


  • Sobell, Mark G. _A Practical Guide to Red Hat Linux: Fedora Core and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Second Edition_. Prentice Hall, 2004.
    • "AbiWord | Word processor (free) | www.abisource.com" [from "Table B-5. Office Suites and Word Processors"]


  • Tiemann, Brian, and Michael C. Urban. _FreeBSD Unleashed_. Sams, 2001.
    • "Although you cant get Microsoft Word for FreeBSD, there are different word processors available that can handle word documents. To open your Word documents you can use the open source word processor AbiWord."
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