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AbiWord is rapidly becoming a state of the art Word Processor, with lots of features useful for your daily work, personal needs, or for just some good old typing fun. This tour gives you a quick look into some of AbiWord's highlights.

Port by Anton Sokolov at OSDrawer.net . Bug reports in order to improve the quality level of the porting are welcome.

Multi Platform

Enjoy your favorite Word Processor on the operating system you like to use - be it Windows, Linux, QNX, FreeBSD or Solaris.

AbiWord has been designed to integrate perfectly with the operating system it runs on. It will take advantage of the functionality provided by the system, such as image loading or printing capabilities.

Interoperability

What use is a Word Processor when you can't share your documents with your friends? 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

Give your document that professional, scientific or fun-to-read look using AbiWord's advanced document layout options. Use tables, bullets, lists, images, footnotes, endnotes and styles to enhance the way your document looks.

Internationalization

Since not everyone in the world speaks the same language, AbiWord comes in many different languages. AbiWord is available in most common and many not-so-common languages.

Make sure your document contains none of those nasty spelling errors by using AbiWord's built-in spelling checker. Dictionaries exist for over 30 languages.

AbiWord supports right-to-left, left-to-right, and mixed-mode text. This means that in addition to supporting European languages, AbiWord supports languages like Hebrew and Arabic as well.

Mail Merge

Do you also hate writing tens of thousands form letters by hand? With AbiWord's Mail Merge capabilities, you can let AbiWord automate that job for you. Special 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.

To facilitate the use of AbiWord in a server environment, a powerful command line interface to AbiWord is available. This allows you to generate form letters, print documents or convert documents to any file format AbiWord supports - all from the command line!

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.

Our plugin system was designed to give AbiWord all the functionality you might expect from a modern Word Processor. A variety of plugins can be used to extend AbiWord's functionality, ranging from Document Importers to a Thesaurus, Image Importers and a Text Summarizer.

File Date:

09 Jul 2007

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Karl vom Dorff (karl)

Submitted On:

26 Jul 2007

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1812

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050707-prealpha1

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Port by Anton Sokolov at OSDrawer.net

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0 # Not Executable / Missing Libraries / Crashes on Start — jrash 2008-10-04 04:17

When I unzip Abiword in Haiku r27828 the binary isn't executable. When I change this and try to run it on the command line it says that I need libxml2 and expat, When I install these libraries from Haikuware and launch Abiword it starts but crashes as soon as the main window appears.

0 # karl 2008-10-04 04:49

Yes, it *did run early on, but some changes made in Haiku seem to have not allowed it to run anymore. It likely needs to be recompiled. Your best bet would be to contact the porter about a new release...

dev.osdrawer.net/projects/abiword/

0 # jrash 2008-10-04 06:49

Thanks!

+1 # OsDrawer have new cms :) — atomozero 2008-10-09 06:15

http://dev.osdrawer.net/projects/show/abiword

+1 # sjusen 2008-11-10 16:45

I opened this ticket 2 weeks ago http://dev.osdrawer.net/issues/show/159

+1 # sjusen 2009-03-25 14:27

This is Resolved in the SVN of abiword on osdrawer.

+1 # New Port — ihatewindows 2009-11-11 13:50

Does anyone have a working copy of this? I badly need it for typing up cover letters, reports, etc. I don't want to go back to Windows... EVER! Or maybe you can recommend another program that will work.

0 # still — pistooli 2010-05-28 01:09

crashes on Alpha 2

interesting, that the old R5 binary of AbiSuite 0.7 starts just fine, but does not recognize any keyboard, mouse, menus are fine. sad indeed.