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AbiWord 2.2 Unleashed

Posted by michael on from the wordperfect-support-still-sucks dept.

uwog writes "AbiWord 2.2 marks a new milestone in the life of our beloved Ant. With a native port to MacOSX, and new features such as live updating tables of contents and TextBox support, Abi is finally a grown up Ant. Read the full announcement or go grab your own copy."

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  1. How can it be? by teamhasnoi · · Score: 5, Funny
    I thought word processors had to take up 3 CDs and had to have toolbars taking up half the screen.

    I don't feel comfortable with this - it must be some sort of devilish sorcery!

  2. Mac, Linux and Windows by Tachys · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Finally, a word processor that works on Macintosh, Windows and Linux.

    No Openoffice on Xfree86 does not count

  3. Re:I like Abiword.... by n4t3 · · Score: 5, Informative

    I've been using 2.2.0 for a few weeks after receiving a link to it from the Abisource team (I reported a problem which the new version fixed) and I've been comparing it with MS Office v.X Word on my 700MHz iBook. I've had troubles with images in AbiWord. I won't go into it but suffice to say I haven't had good luck opening doc files with images. It also seems to have problems with long documents - it really bogs down compared to Word. The fonts are really nice and crisp though on my machine, nicer than my version of Word (admitedly not the latest version of Word). Abiword does still crash occassionally on my OSX10.3.6 though less than in past versions. I will continue to follow AbiWord as it clearly has promise, but its still not replacing Word for me yet.

  4. Re:Keeping up appearances by tessdfield · · Score: 5, Informative

    The longer these issues are kept out of Bugzilla, the longer they persist (yes, that's a request for you to add them to Bugzilla ;))