AbiWord 2.6.4

AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft Word and is rapidly becoming a state of the art Word Processor. It has lots of features useful for your daily work and personal needs.

AbiWord is unique among word processors in its drive to become a fully cross-platform word processor. It source code is carefully written so that AbiWord will run on virtually any operating system with a minimum of time spent on porting. This combined with support for internationalization (the ability to run AbiWord in many languages) gives AbiWord a massive potential user-base.

Features of AbiWord:

- AbiWord is able to read and write all industry standard document types, such as OpenOffice.org documents, Microsoft Word documents, WordPerfect documents, Rich Text Format documents, HTML web pages and many more.
- Advanced Document Layout. Use tables, bullets, lists, images, footnotes, endnotes and styles to enhance the way your document looks.
- Internationalization. AbiWord is available in most common and many not-so-common languages.
- Mail Merge. pecial fields inserted into a template document can automatically be replaced with data coming from a variety of sources, such as Relational Databases, Comma Separated Text files or Tabbed Text files.
- Extensible Plugin Architecture. The main AbiWord program is very small and requires very little resources to run. This allows AbiWord to be used on systems that are not considered "State of the Art" anymore, which comes all too quickly in the IT world.

Changes in latest version:

Fix a long-standing plug-in loading issue on Windows (this closes more than 20 separate bug reports). Fixed inconsistent text rendering and layout with different zoom levels on Unix platforms. The usual set of OpenDocument filter updates, most notably the added ability to import MathML formulas. Include experimental collaboration support using the AbiCollab.net web service (disabled by default as we expect some final protocol changes are needed; feel free to compile and play with it though!). Add the ability to export specific pages and page ranges on the command line using the PostScript and PDF exporters on Linux.

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