AbiWord v2.6.5 Changelog

Core

Collaboration

• Prevent a TLS tunnel from being created on the same port (Marc Maurer)
• Prevent document frames from being hidden, which could result in AbiWord not exiting completely (Marc Maurer)

Editing/Layout

• Bug 11307:  Arabic glyphs are not rendered correctly (Martin Sevior)
• Bug 11636:  Bookmarks are not always inserted (sum1)
• Bug 11665:  Text runs break within words (Martin Sevior)
• Bug 11720:  Crash involving print preview and normal layout mode (Martin Sevior)
• Bug 11773:  Crash when starting a list in an existing document (Martin Sevior)

GUI

GTK+

• Bug 10919:  AbiWord fails to import some PNG images (Jean Brefort)
• Bug 10969:  AbiWord crashes when using the symbol dialog (Marc Maurer)
• Bug 11539:  Fast scroll wheel usage does not change document scroll position (Martin Sevior)
• Bug 11647:  AbiWord exits when overwriting an existing file in the save as dialog (Marc Maurer)
• Bug 11709:  The title of the preferences dialog is not localized (Benno Schulenberg)
• Bug 11731:  AbiWord crashes when opening the symbol dialog (Dominic Lachowicz, Marc Maurer)
• Bug 11789:  Crash when opening the styles dialog on Ubuntu 8.10 (Alberto Milone)
• Bug 11810:  No toolbar icons are displayed when AbiWord is run in certain locales (sum1)
• Bug 495766 (Debian):  Crash when opening the font dialog (Marc Maurer, Xun Sun)
• Fix a memory leak in the font dialog (Xun Sun)
• Fix a start-up crash on Mac OS X (Marc Maurer)
• Prevent a crash that could occur when automatically saving documents from multiple AbiWord windows (sum1)

Import/Export

General

• Improve error checking for memory stream inputs (Dominic Lachowicz)
• Make --to-name no longer required for command line conversions (Dominic Lachowicz)

HTML

• Fix a crash that would occur when exporting a text box with a missing wrap-mode property (sum1)

LaTeX

• Clean up assorted code in the LaTeX exporter (Xun Sun)
• Export MathML equations as LaTeX equations (Xun Sun)
• Export PNG images (Xun Sun)
• Fix a memory leak in the image export code (Xun Sun)
• Handle merged table cells (Xun Sun)
• Improve font size handling (Xun Sun)
• Improve paper size support (Xun Sun)
• Improve support for the default document language (Xun Sun)
• Improve symbol font handling (Xun Sun)
• Preserve the previous justification when dealing with footnotes (Xun Sun)
• Require the fixltx2e package for subscript formatting (Xun Sun)

Office Open XML

• Add an Office Open XML exporter (Firat Kiyak)
  • Features supported: formatted text, formatted paragraphs, page breaks, columns, tab stops, footnotes, endnotes, headers/footers, fields, images, hyperlinks, bookmarks, lists, tables, and text boxes
• Handle a missing style type in the Office Open XML importer (sum1)
• Ignore a missing paragraph alignment type in the Office Open XML importer (sum1)

OpenDocument

• Bug 11790:  Crash when saving an imported OpenDocument file that has had rows added to it (sum1)
• Prevent some potential crashes in the OpenDocument table export code (sum1)

OPML

• Fix a crash that would occur when importing OPML files with no outline elements (sum1)
• Improve the handling of OPML files that lack a body section (sum1)

RTF

• Bug 11734:  Hyperlinked text is not imported correctly (Martin Sevior)

WML

• Fix a crash that would occur when importing WML files with no paragraph elements (sum1)
• Improve the handling of WML files that lack a card section (sum1)

XSL-FO

• Escape block and span properties in the exporter (sum1)

Installer

• Add mingwm10.dll to the installer (Ryan Pavlik)

Internationalization

• Bug 11749:  Update the Basque (eu-ES) translation (Mikel Pascual)
• Add Romanian (ro-RO) templates and system profiles (Lucian Constantin)
• Update the Asturian (ast-ES) translation (Marcos Costales)
• Update the Danish (da-DK) translation (Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér)
• Update the Portuguese (pt-BR) translation (Daniel Oliveira Costa Lemos)
• Update the Romanian (ro-RO) translation (Lucian Constantin)
• Update the Slovak (sk-SK) translation (Jaroslav Rynik)

Development

• Bug 11702:  Add RealmProtocol.h to source releases (Marc Maurer)
• Bug 11797:  Makefile comment causes build failure (Hubert Figuiere)
• Add a UT_colorToHex convenience function for color conversions (sum1)
• Add abicollab_config.mk to source releases (Marc Maurer)
• Fix the collaboration plug-in build on Windows (Marc Maurer)
• Fix various warnings in the collaboration plug-in (Marc Maurer)
• Maintain and release 2.6.5 (Marc Maurer)
• Move the generic TLS tunnel code to the service back-end in the collaboration plug-in (Marc Maurer)
• Remove some obsolete scripts (Marc Maurer)
• Remove the Dashboard plug-in (Hubert Figuiere)
• Remove the unmaintained Perl bindings (Marc Maurer)
• Remove unused threading code (Marc Maurer)
• Use a virtual destructor in the WordPerfect importer (Marc Maurer)