AbiWord v2.7.5 Changelog
Core
- Bug 10781: Equations cannot be pasted between documents (Martin Sevior)
- Bug 11158: Document with hidden text causes an assert (Hubert Figuiere)
- Make sure documents are printed with the exact number of pages and correct page size (Marc Maurer and Martin Sevior)
GUI
Cross-platform
- Attach modeless dialogs to the application rather than the document frame (Martin Sevior)
- Fix a crash when using the equation dialog with multiple documents (Martin Sevior)
Linux
- Bug 10377: Landscape printing uses portrait settings (Patrik Fimml)
- Bug 12138: Remove obsolete entries from the abiword.desktop file (Funda Wang)
- Fix a crash in the save dialog (Hubert Figuiere)
- Fix some dialogs that mistakenly relied on GTK+ 2.16 or higher (Hubert Figuiere)
Mac
- Bug 3413: Version label in the about dialog is not localizable (Hubert Figuiere)
Windows
- Bug 2362: AbiWord only prints across half of the page (Marc Maurer)
- Bug 11212: Crash when deleting pasted image (Hubert Figuiere)
- Bug 12150: Crash when trying to preview annotations (sum1)
- Make copying and pasting from other applications work again (Marc Maurer)
Import/Export
General
- Add support for importing some corrupted files (Hubert Figuiere)
- Fix image-related memory leaks in a few importers (Hubert Figuiere)
HTML
- Bug 10897: Pasting a table from Firefox causes an assert (Hubert Figuiere)
- Add a JavaScript helper to display SVG and MathML elements in exported HTML 4 files (Martin Sevior)
Microsoft Word
- Bug 12133: Word meta data imported with wrong character encoding (Tomáš Novák)
Office OpenXML
- Prevent the potential use of invalid properties and attributes in the importer (Hubert Figuiere)
OpenDocument
- Bug 11904: AbiWord won't import an invalid OpenDocument file (Hubert Figuiere)
- Bug 12132: Invalid meta data files caused by multi-byte strings (Hubert Figuiere)
- Differentiate between "as-char" and "char" anchoring in the importer (Marc Maurer)
- Fix some memory leaks in the importer (Hubert Figuiere)
- Import positioned images inside of headers and footers as inline images until AbiWord can support them properly (Marc Maurer)
- Import text boxes anchored to characters instead of silently ignoring them (Marc Maurer)
RTF
- Bug 6266: Import images from embedded objects in RTF files (Hubert Figuiere)
- Add support for importing and exporting equations (Martin Sevior)
StarOffice
- Bug 12146: Remove some exception handling from the StarOffice importer (Hubert Figuiere)
Internationalization
- Bug 11257: Rephrase the position strings in the page number dialog (Benno Schulenberg)
- Bug 12145: Updated Arabic (ar) translation (Khaled Hosny)
- Update the German (de-DE) translation (Volker Ribbert and Gerrit)
- Update the Slovak (sk-SK) translation (Jaroslav Rynik)
Development
Cross-platform
- Disable the grammar plug-in when spelling support is disabled (Hubert Figuiere)
- Display messages for missing and detected collaboration back-ends (Robert Staudinger)
- Maintain and release 2.7.5 (Marc Maurer)
- Make the bitmap plug-in available on all platforms (Hubert Figuiere)
- Make the rsvg plug-in available on all platforms (Fridrich Strba)
- Remove dialog stub files from the distribution (Marc Maurer)
- Remove the symlink switch from autoreconf to enable building the same source tree in different directories (Hubert Figuiere)
- Replace custom exception code throughout the codebase (Hubert Figuiere)
- Replace custom string maps and vectors with standard containers in the OpenDocument plug-in (Hubert Figuiere)
Linux
- Bug 12138: Fix the installation directory for abiword.desktop and icon files (Funda Wang)
- Fix the build when spelling is disabled (Hubert Figuiere and Robert Wilhelm)
Windows
- Fix the collaboration plug-in build with MinGW (Fridrich Strba)
- Fix the parallel building of plug-ins with MinGW (Fridrich Strba)
- Increase the Windows baseline to Windows 2000 (Fridrich Strba)
- Suppress C4355 warnings in the VC++ build (Marc Maurer)
- Update link-grammar to 4.5.7 (Marc Maurer)