AbiWord is a program similar to Microsoft Word word-processing tools for free, which are small but functional, very suitable for handling instruments, letters, reports, memoranda and other common office documents. AbiWord is open source software, is the office suite AbiSource part. AbiWord is free of the attractions not only provide a powerful word processing features, and its free open source framework model can easily be compiled into the source code can be run under any operating system, applications, any language version of the operating system to support it.

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AbiWord v2.7.6 Changelog
Core
Bug 1349: Add support for native JPEGs to AbiWord (Hubert Figuiere)
Bug 10250: Crash when inserting an endnote above a nested table (Martin Sevior)
Bug 10573: Crash when cutting text (Martin Sevior)
Bug 10649: Excessive space at the bottom of pages when using footnotes (Martin Sevior)
Bug 11777: Dragging an image past the bottom page causes continuous scrolling (Martin Sevior)
Bug 12155: Numbered lists use incorrect numbering for nested items (Martin Sevior, Marc Maurer)
Bug 12178: Invalid .abw file created after dragging one hyperlink into another (Martin Sevior)
Fix a crash that occurred when visually dragging wrapped objects (Martin Sevior)
Fix endnote support with documents that contain section breaks (Martin Sevior)
Improve support for page-anchored images and text boxes (Martin Sevior)
Improve text wrapping around positioned objects (Martin Sevior)
Make footnote and annotation layouts more accurate (Martin Sevior)
Prevent some crashes triggered by dragging positioned images (Martin Sevior)
Prevent some layout hangs (Martin Sevior)
GUI
Cross-platform
Bug 3641: Implement an option to enable overwrite mode (Hubert Figuiere)
Bug 9105: Clarify a help message in the styles dialog (Hubert Figuiere)
Bug 12169: Incorrect file extension used when saving an image (Dom Lachowicz, Hubert Figuiere)
Fix some image-related memory leaks (Hubert Figuiere)
Group related items in the insert menu (Hubert Figuiere)
Move the insert table and format table menu items to the format and insert menus (Hubert Figuiere)
Linux
Bug 9255: Add a keyboard shortcut to the file-type selector (Hubert Figuiere)
Bug 11710: Tooltips use label text instead of tooltip text (Dom Lachowicz)
Bug 11953: Text smudges together when using certain fonts, particularly on BSD systems (John Wehle)
Bug 12003: Support tight text wrapping around SVGs (Dom Lachowicz)
Bug 12170: Incorrect tooltips used on the format toolbar (Dom Lachowicz)
Add mime types for WordPerfect and AbiWord collaboration files to the abiword.desktop file (Marc Maurer)
Fix some memory leaks in the graphics code (Hubert Figuiere)
Import WMF files as SVGs instead of PNGs (Hubert Figuiere)
Mac
Bug 8764: Add a scrollbar to the description field in the properties dialog (Hubert Figuiere)
Bug 10095: Update the preferences dialog to match the Linux one (Hubert Figuiere)
Import/Export
General
Bug 11581: File names with multiple dots cause AbiWord to detect an incorrect file extension (Marc Maurer)
Fix a number of import and export errors caused by mix-ups between absolute file paths, relative file paths, and URIs (Marc Maurer, Hubert Figuiere)
Repair documents that contain text and objects that are not inside paragraphs (Martin Sevior)
AbiWord
Bug 12165: AbiWord fails to import an invalid .abw file (Martin Sevior)
DocBook
Add support for native JPEGs and native SVGs to the exporter (Hubert Figuiere)
Import native JPEGs properly (Hubert Figuiere)
HTML
Add support for native JPEGs to the exporter (Hubert Figuiere)
Don’t export the MathML helper script when there are only SVGs in the document (Martin Sevior)
KWord
Add support for native JPEGs to the exporter (Hubert Figuiere)
LaTeX
Add support for native JPEGs to the exporter (Hubert Figuiere)
Microsoft Word (doc)
Bug 12083: Crash with non-ASCII style names (Robert Wilhelm)
Add preliminary support for EMF images to the importer (Hubert Figuiere)
Office Open XML (docx)
Bug 11739: Images are not imported from .docx files (Firat Kiyak)
Add support for bookmarks, columns, endnotes, fields, footnotes, hyperlinks, images, lists, tab stops, tables (and formatting), and text boxes to the importer (Firat Kiyak)
Export proper tab stop leaders (Firat Kiyak)
Export table background colors(Firat Kiyak)
Fix a memory leak in the image-handling code (Hubert Figuiere)
Fix table border sizes in the exporter (Firat Kiyak)
Handle native JPEGs in the exporter (Hubert Figuiere)
Improve page number support in the importer and exporter (Firat Kiyak)
Improve support for multiple namespaces in .docx files (Firat Kiyak)
OpenDocument (odt)
Bug 10091: Handle page-anchored text boxes (Martin Sevior)
Bug 11943: Handle page-anchored images (Martin Sevior)
Add support for native JPEGs to the exporter (Hubert Figuiere)
Improve support for damaged .odt files (Hubert Figuiere)
Use the page size defined by the first section for the entire document, since AbiWord does not support multiple page sizes per document (Martin Sevior)
OpenOffice.org (sxw)
Add support for native JPEGs to the exporter (Hubert Figuiere)
Fix a memory leak in the page orientation code (Hubert Figuiere)
Fix memory corruption when importing master pages (Hubert Figuiere)
RTF
Bug 3153: AbiWord fails to import a malformed RTF document (Hubert Figuiere)
Bug 5741: Handle RTF files with broken color tables (Hubert Figuiere)
Bug 7814: AbiWord has trouble laying out a complex RTF document (Martin Sevior)
Bug 10770: Import RTF files with invalid font tables (Hubert Figuiere, Martin Sevior)
Fix a potential problem when exporting directional text (Martin Sevior)
Handle native JPEGs in the importer and exporter (Hubert Figuiere)
Improve the pasting of text boxes with images inside of them (Martin Sevior)
WML
Import native JPEGs (Hubert Figuiere)
XSL-FO
Handle native SVGs and JPEGs in the exporter (Hubert Figuiere)
Installer
Bug 11626: Remove references to Win9x support in the readme file (Dom Lachowicz)
Internationalization
Update the Danish (da-DK) translation (Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér)
Update the Hungarian (hu-HU) translation (Tamás Márton Klein)
Update the Slovak (sk-SK) translation (Jaroslav Rynik)
Plug-ins
Collaboration
Bug 12149: Crash in the collaboration plug-in after performing a command line conversion (Marc Maurer)
Fix some crashes in the tunnel disconnect code (Marc Maurer)
Fix the collaboration dialogs when cross-compiling (Fridrich Strba)
Development
Cross-platform
Bug 12156: Missing requirements in libabiword.pc (Hubert Figuiere)
Add const qualifiers where appropriate in the Office Open XML plug-in (Hubert Figuiere)
Fix some warnings in the collaboration plug-in (Marc Maurer)
Fix some warnings in the Office Open XML plug-in (Hubert Figuiere)
Maintain and release 2.7.6 (Marc Maurer)
Relicense the SSL code in the collaboration plug-in under a BSD license (Marc Maurer)
Remove the JPEG plug-in (Hubert Figuiere)
Linux
Bug 11348: Prevent a crash when setting the zoom level from the AbiWidget (Fabian Sturm)
Bug 11497: Remove abiword_48.xpm from the source tree (Hubert Figuiere)
Bug 11895: The content_length and selection_length functions in AbiWidget should return integers (Fabian Sturm)
Disable the rsvg plug-in for the GTK+ port, which has native support for SVGs (Hubert Figuiere)
Mac
Convert Cocoa nib files to XML format (Hubert Figuiere)
Fix some compiler warnings in the Cocoa code (Hubert Figuiere)
Windows
Add libjpeg to the VC++ build (Marc Maurer)
Add the Windows graphic plug-in to AbiWord’s core to make it a fixed requirement (Hubert Figuiere, Fridrich Strba, Marc Maurer)
Fix the MinGW build of the collaboration service back-end (Fridrich Strba)
Suppress C4290 warnings in the VC++ build (Marc Maurer)
Update gtkmathview in the VC++ build (Marc Maurer, Fridrich Strba)