AbiWord 2.2.3 released
This release contains a great amount of bug fixes and improvements over the previous release. This is especially true for the MacOSX platform.
AbiWord 2.2.3 - Word processing program similar to Microsoft® Word.
FreeSMUG review here.
Home page: AbiWord
Mac OSX download.
What’s New in this Version:
- Remap Symbol & Wingdings/Dingbats characters to unicode; fixes list-bullet badness (MacOSX, bug 7591)
- Possibly fix a crasher (can't say for sure) in the Lists dialog (MacOSX)
- Don't add menu separators unless necessary (MacOSX, bug 8145)
- View complex (CJK etc. & Alt+) input in document as you type. This removes the need for the Preview Panel & Tool Palette preview boxes. (MacOSX)
- Add Tool Palette and Preview Panel to Window->Panels submenu (MacOSX)
- Fix sections not being added before blocks in the XHTML importere (bug 8158)
- Enable override of margin and indentation marker drawing methodsfor the Left and Top rulers (MacOSX)
- Change 3D colors to improve the look of rulers (MacOSX)
- Make margin and indentation markers slightly aquatic (MacOSX)
- Make pretty ruler table cell marks (MacOSX)
- Discard NSInputManager's marked text on mouse-click (MacOSX)
- Fix the File Open Save As dialog to work on MacOSX 10.2 as well (MacOSX)
- Update disc image documentation (MacOSX)
- Get page size and orientation working in the PageSetup dialog (MacOSX)
- Menu check-marks need to be switched off as well as on (MacOSX)
- Foreground/Background color toolbar buttons pop up color panel (MacOSX)
- Don't change the color panel name in the Tool Palette(MacOSX)
- Display the correct opened file (MacOSX)
- Fix Insert Field dialog (MacOSX)
- Don't change the title of the Word Count dialog (MacOSX)
- Usethe correct framedatafor displaying in the Left ruler
- Revert to the default cursor on mouse-release in the Top ruler
- Swap east/west cursors to the correct sides in the Top ruler
- Add some build options to reduce the extent of the build (MacOSX)
- Stop pop-up menus from auto-validating entriesin the Tool Palette (MacOSX)
- New improved File OpenSave AS dialog with image preview (MacOSX)
- Fully implement the Format Textbox dialog (MacOSX)
- Fix a crash caused by unchecked absense of a frame/view (MacOSX)
