AbiWord v2.7.8 Changelog

Core

Bug 10692: Hang when inserting a table over a footnote (Martin Sevior)
Enable table line drags for embedded versions of AbiWord (Martin Sevior)
Fix some editing issues with annotations (Martin Sevior)
Improve the handling of documents that contain page breaks in columns (Martin Sevior)

GUI

Cross-platform

Bug 2466: Prompt before taking over an existing bookmark's name (sum1)
(Part of) Bug 11953: Don't list non-scalable fonts in the Linux and Mac UIs (Hubert Figuiere)
Bug 12256: The "Help Introduction" menu item has an incorrect status bar description (sum1)
Make some frequently-used drawing code slightly faster (Robert Wilhelm)
Make text rendering on Linux and Mac faster (Robert Wilhelm)

Linux

Bug 12183: AbiWord generates PDFs with lower quality images (Martin Sevior)
Bug 12218: Crash when opening the text box dialog (Hubert Figuiere)
Fix a crash in the document history dialog (Hubert Figuiere)

Mac

Bug 8098: Use Ctrl + K as a shortcut for deleting the current line (Hubert Figuiere)
Bug 8517: The header/footer dialog does not save changes (Hubert Figuiere)
Bug 8527: Ignore the internal hyperlink anchor ['#'] in the bookmark dialog (Hubert Figuiere)
Bug 8529: Implement the document history dialog (Hubert Figuiere)
Bug 8642: The spinners in the bullets dialog use incorrect ranges (Hubert Figuiere)
Bug 8669: The format table dialog is missing functionality (Hubert Figuiere)
Bug 8765: Add text-wrapping options to the image dialog (Hubert Figuiere)
Bug 8781: Disable the merge cells and split cells dialogs when there is no document open (Hubert Figuiere)
Bug 10002: Style names appear editable in the style dialog (Hubert Figuiere)
Bug 10010: Crash when using the stylist dialog without an active document (Hubert Figuiere)
Bug 10011: Crash when inserting a table background without an active document (Hubert Figuiere)
Bug 10013: Closing the columns dialog prevents access to the document afterward (Hubert Figuiere)
Bug 10015: Crash when selecting a color from the toolbar without an active document (Hubert Figuiere)
Ensure that all controls are disabled in the text box dialog when there's no active document (Hubert Figuiere)
Fix a crash that occurred when drawing text boxes (Hubert Figuiere)
Fix the font dialog (Hubert Figuiere)
Improve the layouts of the bullets, columns, header/footer, insert table, options, and revisions dialogs (Hubert Figuiere)
Make the break dialog more consistent with the other platform versions (Hubert Figuiere)

Windows

Bug 2468: Disable the OK button in the bookmark dialog when the bookmark name is empty (sum1)
Bug 12188: Implement an "enable overwrite mode" option on Windows (sum1)

Import/Export

AbiWord

Fix some potential issues that could lead to invalid XML in the abw exporter (sum1)

Office Open XML (docx)

Bug 12180: OpenOffice.org can't read the docx files exported by AbiWord (Firat Kiyak)
Add support for borderless table cells to the importer (Firat Kiyak)
Add support for table styles to the importer (Firat Kiyak)
Fix the exporting of page columns (Firat Kiyak)
Fix the exporter to handle nested tables (Firat Kiyak)
Handle overlapping bookmarks in the exporter better (Firat Kiyak)
Import and export page margins (Firat Kiyak)
Import page breaks (Firat Kiyak)
Import text highlighting from docx files (Firat Kiyak)
Improve support for bookmarks inside of tables (Firat Kiyak)
Improve support for merged table cells in the importer (Firat Kiyak)
Make cells inherit table backgrounds in the importer (Firat Kiyak)

OpenDocument (odt)

Bug 11859: Span background colors are not always exported (sum1)
Bug 12219: Missing text and image during import (Martin Sevior)
Bug 12240: Crash when importing a document that contains equations (sum1)
(Part of) Bug 12661: AbiWord doesn't export background images correctly (sum1)
(Part of) Bug 12661: Prevent invalid color values in the exporter (sum1)
(Part of) Bug 12661: Top-level text boxes are ignored during import (sum1)

RTF

Bug 12239: Text inside of table cells is not imported with the correct alignment (Martin Sevior)

Installer

Bug 12246: Update the copyright statements in the readme documents (sum1)
Bug 12257: Add a Slovak dictionary option to the Windows installer (sum1)
Remove the math plug-in from the typical installation set (Ryan Pavlik)

Internationalization

Update the Romanian (ro-RO) translation (Lucian Constantin)
Update the Russian (ru-RU) translation (Urmas)
Update the Slovak (sk-SK) translation (Jaroslav Rynik)
Update the Wolof (Senegal) (wo-SN) translation (Dominique Rochefort)

Plug-ins

Collaboration

Bug 12248: Potential crash when importing data items while collaborating (sum1)
Fix corrupted data packets with the Sugar and TCP back-ends (Marc Maurer)

Development

Cross-platform

Make sure all templates are added to the source distribution (Marc Maurer)
Package Romanian templates and profiles in the source distribution (Marc Maurer)
Release and maintain 2.7.8 (Marc Maurer)

Linux

Fix a mime type issue with the GOffice component (Jean Brefort)

Mac

Clean up the code in the column and file chooser dialogs (Hubert Figuiere)
Make the Objective-C class in the image dialog private (Hubert Figuiere)

Windows

Bug 12215: Fix some mismatched deallocations in Windows code (Ryan Pavlik)
Add the OpenWriter, Paint, and S5 plug-ins to the VC++ build (Marc Maurer)

PyAbiWord v0.7.8 Changelog

Scripts

Add a test_two.py script that shows how to use multiple AbiWidgets in an application (Martin Sevior)
Fix the use of abi_render_page_to_image in test.py (Martin Sevior)