Re: AbiWord 0.99.3 released.

From: Dennis J.Tuchler (dtuchler@earthlink.net)
Date: Sun Mar 17 2002 - 23:24:08 EST

  • Next message: Martin Sevior: "Re: AbiWord 0.99.3 released."

    Will there be footnote or endnote capability in 1.0? This is crucial to me,
    as an academic.

    dj tuchler

    On Sunday 17 March 2002 21:07, Martin Sevior wrote:
    > AbiWord 0.99.3 aka bilder-R-vi is available immediately.
    >
    > 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.
    >
    >
    > Download abiword from http://www.abisource.com/download/
    >
    > Post bugs to http://bugzilla.abisource.com/
    >
    >
    >
    > 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 Trigve 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

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