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AbiWord 2.2 Unleashed
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AbiSource will integrate AbiWord with other GNOME Office apps instead of creating a new spreadsheet (Gnumeric), presentation (Criawips), or database (GNOME-DB) component.
Well, the Windows version uses uniscribe by default now, so the situation may have improved (1.x was quite a while ago too, so if you're on unix it will have improved there as well). There are some known issues with bidi support on Mac OS X and there are also known issues with Arabic, Indic, Korean, Chinese, and Japanese scripts, but that's because no one has volunteered to assist the developers in improving the existing support.
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The mascot for AbiWord is "Abi the ant."
AbiSource will integrate AbiWord with other GNOME Office apps instead of creating a new spreadsheet (Gnumeric), presentation (Criawips), or database (GNOME-DB) component.
That screenshot is with 2.0 not 2.2, but yes kerning information isn't used yet.
OpenOffice.org is resource heavy and doesn't support Windows 95 (any longer), for one.
Well, the Windows version uses uniscribe by default now, so the situation may have improved (1.x was quite a while ago too, so if you're on unix it will have improved there as well). There are some known issues with bidi support on Mac OS X and there are also known issues with Arabic, Indic, Korean, Chinese, and Japanese scripts, but that's because no one has volunteered to assist the developers in improving the existing support.