AbiWord v2.7.7 Changelog

Core

Bug 5822: Editing text under or next to an image darkens it (Martin Sevior)
Bug 9434: Crash when editing Word document (Martin Sevior)
Bug 12080: Disable smart quote conversions when undoing and pasting (Martin Sevior)
Bug 12198: Crash when inserting a header (Martin Sevior)
Bug 12202: Extra paragraphs are created when reopening files with annotations (Martin Sevior)
Allow SVGs to be copied and pasted (Martin Sevior)
Fix a crash when copying images (Martin Sevior)
Retain width and height settings when generating images for positioned objects (Martin Sevior)

Bug 8307: Standardize shortcut keys for subscript, superscript, and zooming (Martin Sevior)
- Zoom in: Ctrl + =
- Zoom out: Ctrl + -
- Superscript: Ctrl + Shift + 6 (Ctrl + ^)
- Subscript: Ctrl + Shift + - (Ctrl + _)
Bug 12187: Images aren't unselected properly (Martin Sevior)
Speed up the text renderer used on Linux and Mac (Robert Wilhelm)

Allow SVGs to be used as positioned objects and background images (Martin Sevior)
Clarify the tooltip for the replace button in the annotation dialog (Marc Maurer)
Speed up SVG rendering (Martin Sevior)

Bug 8012: Combining Diacritical Marks do not work (Hubert Figuiere)
Bug 8023: Punctuation marks are not erased properly (Hubert Figuiere)
Bug 8048: Certain fonts are not spaced properly (Hubert Figuiere)
Bug 8109: Low hanging characters are not erased correctly (Hubert Figuiere)
Bug 8352: Text selections have small holes in them and are not entirely contiguous (Hubert Figuiere)
Bug 8384: Text justification doesn't work properly (Hubert Figuiere)
Bug 8676: Rendering problems with Arabic letter forms (Hubert Figuiere)
Bug 9564: Bidirectional text is not rendered correctly (Hubert Figuiere)
Bug 9597: The caret is incorrectly placed and overlaps text (Hubert Figuiere)
Bug 9615: Incorrectly spaced letters with the Mac version (Hubert Figuiere)
Bug 12201: Use the Cairo and Pango renderer in the Mac build (Hubert Figuiere)

Bug 11800: Bullets and numbering dialog can't be reopened (Marc Maurer)
Bug 12169: Incorrect file extension used when saving an image (sum1)
Bug 12189: Don't convert JPEGs to PNGs internally (Marc Maurer)
Bug 12196: JPEGs are not displayed (Marc Maurer)
Make the icons in the split cells and merge cells dialogs larger for easier use (Marc Maurer)

Bug 12180: Exported documents that contain JPEGs cannot be opened by Word (Firat Kiyak)
Handle white space between tags in the importer (Firat Kiyak)
Import and export page size and page orientation (Firat Kiyak)
Support mail merge fields in the importer and exporter (Firat Kiyak)

Bug 12110: Add account dialog is not refreshed properly when changing account type (Marc Oude Kotte)
Fix the X button in the collaboration accounts dialog (Marc Oude Kotte)

Bug 12211: Add comments to explain unreached layout code (Martin Sevior)
Bug 12216: Mismatched braces when using certain conditionals in the Word importer (Ryan Pavlik, Hubert Figuiere)
Add support for implementing colors as patterns with the Cairo back-end (Hubert Figuiere)
Fix some allocation mismatches in the WordPerfect and human-readable text plug-ins (Hubert Figuiere)
Make sure the normal templates are always installed to prevent invalid margin settings (Marc Maurer)
Make the Cairo rendering code more modular for non-GTK+ platforms (Hubert Figuiere)
Release and maintain 2.7.7 (Marc Maurer)
Remove obsolete developer documents from the source tree (Hubert Figuiere)

Bug 11699: libpng is outdated in the ports SDK (Hubert Figuiere)
Add libwpd, libwpg, and link-grammar back to the ports SDK (Hubert Figuiere)
Add preliminary, but non-functional support for GtkMathView to the ports SDK (Hubert Figuiere)
Remove an obsolete enchant patch from the ports SDK (Hubert Figuiere)
Update various dependencies for building with trunk in the ports SDK (Hubert Figuiere)
Update wvWare to 1.2.6 in the ports SDK (Hubert Figuiere)

Add the math plug-in to the VC++ build (Marc Maurer)
Remove a duplicate line from the resource file for the join dialog in the collaboration plug-in (Marc Oude Kotte)