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AbiWord 2.1.1 Released

Submitted by uwog on Mon, 2004-03-22 23:27. AbiWord

The AbiWord team is very proud to announce the release of AbiWord v2.1.1, the second snapshot of the development that will lead to AbiWord 2.2. This snapshot allows interested developers, testers and users a sneak preview to see how AbiWord is advancing the State-of-the-Art in Word Processing.New features of this release include (amongst others):

Experimental native Apple-Macintosh OSX binary for testing purposes.

Automatic Table of Contents generation.

Text Folding (sometimes called 'Outlines').

Version History and Rollback.

New complex language support to allow platform targets to use plugins to support complex languages like Arabic, Hebrew, Thai and Indic languages.

Merge Documents into Revision Marks.

A Stylist Dialog.

Single click Table Column selection.

Many speed ups.

Improved Revision marks.

Improved MS Word import.

Improved HTML export.

Improved RTF Import/Export.

Many, Many bugfixes.

A detailed description of the new features can be found at here. The full ChangeLog can be found at here.
AbiWord v2.1.1 is parallel installable with AbiWord-2.0 so users can try it out without disturbing their stable AbiWord-2.0 version. We're particularly interested to learn of bugs in Revision Marks. Please report these and other bugs you might find to http://bugzilla.abisource.com/.
While we encourage people to try out the new snapshot, please be aware that is a development snapshot and is not expected to be stable in any sort of way.
Availability: http://www.abisource.com/download/development.phtml.
More information: http://www.abisource.com/.
Enjoy!
Abi the Ant and her intrepid hackers

Re: AbiWord 2.1.1 Released

Submitted by Anonymous George on Sat, 2004-03-27 16:39.

You people have been drinking your own coolaid for far too long.

Abiword is very promising, but when you talk about advancing the state of the art in word processing, you are simply lying.

I really wanted to like Abiword because it loads a lot faster on my two computers, but it is completely unusable for daily work. It is crashy and full of bugs.Try inserting an image, not even a very large one into a text file and see what happens.

I just wish people would not lie in public creating expectations that cannot be met. Abiword has been promising the moon for far too long and it has not delivered. In the same time frame, OpenOffice and the KOffice suite have advanced a great deal more. And both are a hell of a lot more stable.

Gnumeric on the other hand is the best spreadsheet around on any OS.

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