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software OS4   software OS4 : AbiWord 2.8.6 for AmiCygnix released
   posted by CygnusEd on 5-Jan-2013 16:20:13 (2410 reads)
A new release of AbiWord is now available on OS4-Depot.

New in this release:

  • New version 2.8.6 with many new features compared to the last version 2.6.2.
  • Gnumeric spreadsheets can now be embedded into an AbiWord document. You can load and edit existing spreadsheets or create new ones. Gnumeric 1.10.17 is integrated into AbiWord for this. You don't need to install the standalone package of Gnumeric!
  • With the new plugin "OpenXML" you can now load and save documents in .docx format (MS Word 2007+).
  • Compiled with GTK+ 2.24.
  • Several bugfixes.




  • General features of AbiWord:

  • Outstanding file import and export, with support for MS Word, WordPerfect, OpenOffice, OpenDocument and more
  • Unlimited undo and redo capacity
  • Solid (X)HTML export, with CSS styles support
  • Images
  • Spelling support, with optional underlining. Supported spelling systems: ispell, aspell and myspell.
  • Bullets and Lists
  • Styles
  • Table of Contents generation and customization through the Stylist
  • Complete, intuitive revisions-tracking support
  • Nested tables support, nearly unmatched in the field
  • Mail merge
  • Bidirectional text support
  • Command-line and server use modes for document processing capabilities
  • HTML online help files are included (English, French, Polish)


  • and much more...

    A German and English dictionary is included. The aspell dictionaries available on os4-depot are still working.

    Download: abiword.lha
    Homepage: http://www.abisource.com
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    pavlor 
    Re: AbiWord 2.8.6 for AmiCygnix released
    Posted on 5-Jan-2013 18:06:10
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    Well done!

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    Re: AbiWord 2.8.6 for AmiCygnix released
    Posted on 5-Jan-2013 18:11:17
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    "you can now load and save documents in .docx format (MS Word 2007+)"

    Very nice! I could do big part of my work on my Amiga.
    (documentation and coding, I anyway compile & debug on different RDesktop connected machine)

    Last edited by KimmoK on 05-Jan-2013 at 07:34 PM.


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    Re: AbiWord 2.8.6 for AmiCygnix released
    Posted on 5-Jan-2013 19:00:47
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    Great work! :) Thx Ed!

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    Re: AbiWord 2.8.6 for AmiCygnix released
    Posted on 5-Jan-2013 19:11:42
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    fantastic!.


    time to open my wallet i think :)


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    Re: AbiWord 2.8.6 for AmiCygnix released
    Posted on 6-Jan-2013 6:19:41
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    thanks again Ed

    GNumeric & AbiWord are a great combo for our miggies


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    Re: AbiWord 2.8.6 for AmiCygnix released
    Posted on 6-Jan-2013 10:02:18
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    Thanks for your time porting this software for AmigaOS4.

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    Re: AbiWord 2.8.6 for AmiCygnix released
    Posted on 6-Jan-2013 10:57:45
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    @ Toaks
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    fantastic!.
    time to open my wallet i think :)



    @ all

    Enjoy AbiWord! I hope there are not too much bugs in it


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    Re: AbiWord 2.8.6 for AmiCygnix released
    Posted on 6-Jan-2013 11:08:59
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    Quote:
    With the new plugin "OpenXML" you can now load and save documents in .docx format (MS Word 2007+).


    When I tried to install this plugin I get an 'install failed' ,message! Is there a special way to get this correctly installed?

    Edit: Can someone explain step by step how to install plug-ins as I am having problems?

    Last edited by sicky on 06-Jan-2013 at 01:40 PM.


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    Re: AbiWord 2.8.6 for AmiCygnix released
    Posted on 6-Jan-2013 15:12:00
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    @ sicky

    There is no need to install this plugin, all plugins are included in the program binary and are activated by default. Just open the requester and choose a .docx file!

    Last edited by CygnusEd on 06-Jan-2013 at 07:46 PM.


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    Re: AbiWord 2.8.6 for AmiCygnix released
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    @CygnusEd

    Quote:
    here is no need to install this plugin, all plugins are included in the program binary and are avtivated by default. Just open the requester and choose a .docx file!


    Thanks for pointing that out, I didn't realise!


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    Re: AbiWord 2.8.6 for AmiCygnix released
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    Quote:
    load and save documents in .docx format (MS Word 2007+)

    This is important feature.


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    Re: AbiWord 2.8.6 for AmiCygnix released
    Posted on 7-Jan-2013 20:07:34
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    Quote:

    Poster: Tomppeli Date: 6-Jan-2013 21:59:00

    Quote:
    load and save documents in .docx format (MS Word 2007+)

    This is important feature.


    It is indeed ... I use Abiword for everyday work and I never had any problems, great piece of software, thx

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    Re: AbiWord 2.8.6 for AmiCygnix released
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    Good news! thanks for your work. I'll check it out..docx support is a big deal.

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    Re: AbiWord 2.8.6 for AmiCygnix released
    Posted on 8-Jan-2013 10:06:07
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    " I never had any problems"

    In case someone is looking for problems... try AbiWord in Lubuntu. At least for me it is unusable unstable in that linux distro. And AMD3800+ starts to be too slow for normal Ubuntu.

    (in general... it seems the be standard in linux nowdays to kill any missbehaving app without any notice or info why it happened. At least lubuntu, debian and bodhi does that all the time ... I would rather see grim reaper and some info of why app needs to be killed. And resource tracking ... all mainstream OS leave something anyway running, often reboot is required anyway or to try to guess what process needs to be killed manually ...etc... it does not help that win systems still use 8+3 syntax for process names.)

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    Re: AbiWord 2.8.6 for AmiCygnix released
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    Maybe a server question rather than an application specific one:

    Is it possible to change the language ( I want to type a greek text)? By clicking the right mouse button on the page it`s possible to choose "Classical Greek", but the keymap is wrong. ISO 8859-7 would be fine I guess...


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    Re: AbiWord 2.8.6 for AmiCygnix released
    Posted on 13-Jan-2013 21:26:32
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    @Cass

    I'm already working on this problem. Several people asked for polish support (ISO-8859-2) and other charsets will also be supported.

    If you like to help me to fix this bug, please send me a mail (see profile) and I will send you a test version of Leafpad.


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