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)