AbiWord Weekly News #117, (2002, week 45, released 2002.11.10)
Welcome to this issue 117 of the AbiWord Weekly News.
Welcome to the last of the disappointing AWN's (feature-wise) and the first Sunday-released AWN. Due to unexpected time constraints (ironically), some of the information is dated by a few hours. QA heros will return next week (along with bug linking and other features you probably appreciate). The AWN is reaching it's final phases of what you can expect consistently. Any comments that seem off or shouldn't be there probably shouldn't be there. This AWN maybe updated for the Weekly Prize Patch and any fixes I want to get in.
AbiFund information maybe updated monthly, QA will be more extensive and any changes you want to see in the AWN should get to me in the next couple of weeks.
Now, as for AbiWord, 1.1.1 was released this week, in the four month build up to AbiWord II: The Wrath of Dom, this version is even niftier. Will and Marc start a wv-like library for WordPerfect. And there's still some more dipping into learning how AbiWord's proprietary format works.
In this issue:
Editor(s) of this issue: E. A. Zen
If you're interested in using AbiWord for the first time, receiving a more uptodate version, any particular version or special release, feel free to visit the new Latest Releases page.
DISCLAIMER: It should be generally noted that anything said before the "In this issue:" line is purely editorial.
Discussions
Traffic on the developer mailing list has settled at about 200-400 postings per week.
This week, interesting topics on the developer list included:
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AWN 116 updated. : In case you didn't notice, I updated the AWN to add some level of "it's just me, don't shoot the developers." So massively wrong was last week's AWN that most of the team had to call for emergency medical services. I guess comparing AbiWord and KWord to the Packers and the Bears was just a bit off.
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New Bugzilla keyword proposal : Due to the commonality of occasional graphics issues, Andrew proposes a new keyword for bugzilla, "pixeldirt." Anyone playing with Martin's tables (upto this week, atleast) has seen this phenomenon; though, it does occur in various forms.
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24 hours until release. , ATTN: Intent to release in roughly 13.5 hours and Tag: release-1-1-1 : Without closing a tree, Dom and Martin create 1.1.1. I haven't checked as to Release Notes or tarball, but I will update the statics page when I see them (would also be a good time to Abe Bigoda and see what links work).
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DOC or RTF? : Sang, has realized our .doc is just a façade for a .rtf. This comes from the fact that Word will open most document formats that atleast claim to be .doc. Anyone that wants real .doc must enable debugging, yea, even if it goes to /dev/null.
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Re: Help stepping through objects in a document : In case you missed last week's original, Dr. William Bland is curious as to how the Abiformat threads everything into a cohesive document. This is the end in which he thanks Martin for a generous code dump. Andrew points to a related bug, and Jesper explains a less elegant means of getting the same data (dump).
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OpenOffice.org and AbiWord: Both happily displaying WordPerfect : Will announces that he and Marc have been working on making a general library for WordPerfect. Picture WV for WP. Now if only someone and RTF library...
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Abiword XML format description : David Buddrige wants a decent DTD as a part of his AbiWord Technical Documentation Manual (not an actual title, but I'm on a roll). He's pointed to a somewhat dated document type definition here, by Frank.
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commit: Make xft print properly (I think). : Incredible what a single line can do, as Martin's XFT fix for printing Martin wants to retag, but there appears to be some oddities with the menus.
This week, interesting topics on the user list included:
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Can AbiWord do cmd-line data merging & printing? : Mike Hudson is looking for a small word processor able to print on demand without the need to load a suite of graphical bibble bobs. Dom informs Mike of our favourite --print command for the scriptor on the go.
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Compilation stopped : Bernard Lambey quickly learns that Mandrake and AbiWord have issues, particularly when "statically" linked.
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abiword differents arguments linux/solaris : Ramon finds that, despite having the same capabilities, the output from --help on Solaris and Linux differ.
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Importing files : Steve Blackwell needs to find someway to embed a diagram for a project of his. Unfortunately, the best he could get was the tried and true take-a-screen-cap method.
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core file : Bernard spends a week trying to get AbiWord to run on Mandrake. From libraries to sources, all fails but the very specific mandrake rpm.
Development
CVS StatsTrack who put in how much and why. And, while you're at it, consider whether you'd like to keep your own cvs build as well. Tables...ooh....
| CVS checkins 2002.11.03 - 2002.11.09 | ||
| Who | Commits | In summary |
| dom | 65 | fix bug 3888 from Mike Peters, deprecated lots of junk to fix a bug related to MBTOWC (this includes all but plugins getting the proper fix), new operators and methods, threatened the life of the encoding manager (I think that's Andrew), wv(disable graphics, bump version #), #include xap_EncodingManager, collate on by default, workaround PHTML bug, Ozzy Osbourne meets Unix Fonts, fix libxml2 error on RH8, PS graphics issue, html tables now have background colour, XFT fixery |
| msevior | 30 | Tables bug fixing, line widths use dimensional units (fix a rare crash in inc. loader), MSWord table work, bullets in XFT, fix compile with nullGraphics, stop crash on copy selected tables, stop crash importing some msword docs with tables, fix hang pasting tables in RTF, fix table crash found by dom, XFT one liner for printing. and bugs ( 4275, 4201, 3292, 4181) |
| hub | 27 | Cocoa {fix UI loc, project builder project builder project builder (initial release), Use Foundation and fixed memory problems, Brushed metal appearence for the about box (is that MacDinkery, Bob? Why yes, I believe it is!), Message box dialogue title, frame logic change, mem-fixing, cosmetics sold out of the back of Hub's car, warnings reparied, saveRectangle/restoreRectanlge made virtual, removed storeCachedImage and restoreCachedImage, Fix bug 2174 and bug 4050 |
| sam | 18 | Fix 4146 |
| jordimas | 9 | default values for insert tbl dlg box, dlg and status bar fixes, bug 2282 |
| phearbear | 7 | Fixes for the Insert Field dialog, added the restoreRect/saveRectangle functions, removed some obsolete font code, removed some debug info., added the default values for the create table stuff. |
| fjfranklin | 5 | some variables were no longer declared/initialized in the non-xft build, new --with-fink convenience option for configure, handy hack for MacOSX, build fix (hub) |
| dchart | 4 | 1.1.1 Changelog updates |
| wlach | 2 | fix page count not updating problem. boolean logic problem. |
| rms | 2 | Fix spec, fix warning about templates being included twice |
| hippietrail | 1 | Polish strings update from Andrzej Pruszynski |
| mgilbert | 1 | Variation on a fix by mikey [ed. and some people say I'm familiar!] |
| mpritchett | 1 | Clear extraneous assert |
| phma | 1 | Nynorsk update by Karl Ove Hufthammer, added names of some languages |
*phearbear: system-related work is QNX unless stated otherwise. Acticate is his own word.
*jordimas: system-related work is Windows unless stated otherwise.
POWs
The concept of a "Project Of the Week" is to single out tasks of major interest that outside developers might be interested in providing assistance to. Until a "best way" of listing POWs come to mind, they shall be listed in a short description. Any user interested is welcome to assist in tackling these POWs. If you know someone who's interested, you can link directly to a POW, in order, they're pow3 (at the top) through pow1 (at the bottom). Reminder to developers, I can't post them if you don't submit them. Additionally, feel free to announce if one of these is finished (in case you don't mention it on the list or in the cvs) Also, what a great way to get money from Dom!
Name: Style and/or Diction Plugins (bug 3281) (do either/or or both!)
Description: build a plugin to allow Abiword to check style and diction
Advertisement: me got no grammar fixer, help mes can't you?
Recommended Outline: Create a plugin for AbiWord that allows the checking of style and diction. The source code for the gnu style and diction tools is available here: http://www.gnu.org/software/diction/diction.html
As a prototype you might be able to hack something using the AbiCmd plugin to wrap the style and diction tools. The AikSaurus (Thesaurus) plugin should also be a helpful guide.
When you get the basics working you could try to get Abiword to display green squiggle underlines to mark errors, or otherwise work on a good user interface.
Comments: A great way to start playing with the AbiSource
System: Any OS will be fine.
Challenge level: ***.. 3 stars out of 5
Current Hero: The mastery of Kung Fu has yet to appear.
Name: Fix Windows printing boogs (bug 3239)
Description: Tackle some or more of the various bugs that cause issues in attempting to print under Windows
Advertisement: ????????????????????????????? (no, that's really the ad!)
Recommended Outline: You must become magical to know how to fix this.
Comments: "The problem is that printing on Windows is broken with several brand of printer drivers (see dependent bugs). It appears that with standard PostScript driver it does not happen. It appears also that version 0.9.6 had less problems than 1.0.1 so we might find out where the regression is bu diffing.
"Please, be sure to read all the bug reports. Even partial fix are accepted.
"Fixes must be done against STABLE tree and possibly ported to HEAD (the later can be done as a second step)."
This comes from Hub
Notice: This may already have been fixed with the libiconv upgrade, stay tuned!
System: Windows
Challenge level: ****. 4 stars out of 5
Current Hero: Not one MoFo yet has had the Huevos for this POW
Name: More Windows Maintainers
Description: Jordi could always use help
Advertisement: Help free people from the oppression of MSWord today!
Recommended Outline: You must become magical to know how to fix this.
Comments: Wouldn't be a bad idea to start with the printing bug...
System: Windows
Challenge level: ****. 4 stars out of 5
Current Hero: Jordi Mas
Bug Update
Bug Votes
These are the week's Top 20 Bugs in the categories problems and requests for enhancements. Influence next week's results by casting your own votes. Ah, another release, another change of what bugs are on the "Most Wanted" list.
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| 3269 | 120 | --- | Crashing on printing |
| 3171 | 115 | 1.0.x | rtf sets top and bottom margins to 0 |
| 3525 | 90 | --- | font incorrectly printed and spaced |
| 376 | 80 | 2.0 | File assosciate problems for all file types with Win32Slu...... |
| 1406 | 61 | 1.0.x | xhtml documents fail to open: "Bogus html document" msg |
| 1747 | 42 | 2.0 | background colour of text selection is always grey |
| 1194 | 39 | 2.0 | alt+xxxx does not insert special symbols |
| 4046 | 31 | --- | The spellchecker has gone gonzo since upgrading from 1.0....... |
| 2362 | 30 | --- | AbiWord only prints across half of page |
| 4049 | 30 | --- | Crash on open file from floppy or network drive. |
| 4057 | 30 | --- | Thesaurus Shift+F7 keybindings shortcuts consistancey |
| 3778 | 29 | --- | Hanging indent setting ignores units |
| 4216 | 29 | --- | Wrong line length, wont justify either... |
| 2868 | 25 | 2.0 | character widths are not calculated correctly for some fonts... |
| 2907 | 21 | --- | Keep with next paragraph doesn't work for me |
| 2421 | 20 | 2.0 | TM, Bullet, Euro, Smart Quotes and other symbols originat...... |
| 3579 | 20 | --- | Save corrupted when text pasted from web page and saved a...... |
| 1394 | 17 | 2.0 | on-screen landscape actually prints portrait in Win95 |
| 2299 | 15 | 1.0.x | Prints incorrect margins with split page. |
| Top 20 Requests For Enhancement | |||
| ID | Votes | Milestone | Summary |
| 1261 | 559 | 2.0 | Need to support footnotes and endnotes |
| 2321 | 286 | Future | [RFE] Maths/Equation Editing, as a plugin maybe? |
| 2183 | 224 | Future | Fully Support OpenOffice's XML file format |
| 2365 | 105 | Future | AbiWord needs 'view codes' |
| 1374 | 96 | Future | [RFE] print odd and/or even pages only (for front & back ... |
| 1950 | 87 | Future | Wish for automatic Table of Contents |
| 2463 | 79 | Future | support embedded objects |
| 1144 | 67 | Future | Improve KWord import/export filters |
| 2565 | 41 | Future | Add true MS Word .doc export capability |
| 1929 | 36 | Future | Hyphenation is missing in Abiword |
| 515 | 35 | Future | columns change should only affect selected text |
| 2186 | 30 | Future | The insert page break setting is lost for custom styles |
| 3003 | 30 | 2.0 | Just "Save File As," not "Save," is available with .doc f... |
| 3657 | 30 | Future | Rapid Document Production, Insert File |
| 2219 | 27 | Future | AUTONUM wanted in [ Insert/Field/Number ] menu |
| 2136 | 25 | Future | A Latex importer would be nice and useful |
| 2296 | 25 | Future | doc import: footnotes |
| 2169 | 24 | Future | Line numbering |
| 1762 | 20 | 2.0 | import html |
Resolved Bugs
In the past week, the following Bugs have been verified as fixed. The listed Bugs have all been put in either CLOSED or RESOLVED mode as FIXED. and QA will return next week along with the Flushed bugs. Yes, I'm having issues...hoo boy, Boris, are they issues. Note to developers: Sorry if I miss anything, and I may yell at you later this week for your bad habits. Matthew knows what I mean.
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| 519 | Paste Toolbar button does not gray when nothing suitable ... |
| 1796 | On-screen margins are not respected at some zooms. |
| 2174 | Can't import Cocoa RTF |
| 2282 | Status bar doesn't go away |
| 2715 | crash on zoom |
| 3008 | Cursor not initially in hyperlink dialog |
| 3081 | html export of paragraph with custom style produces unnec... |
| 3101 | assert badly hurts |
| 3292 | magnification text confusing |
| 3313 | Extra "*" after filename in "save changes" dialog |
| 3445 | This document is not fully laid out. |
| 3686 | XAbiword version for bundle not properly set. |
| 3827 | Crash when opening a document with a JPG included |
| 3888 | The gtk2 colour selector shouldn't have opacity setting |
| 3892 | [RFE]: Use better font loading/determining algorithms |
| 3921 | character size definition in html |
| 3951 | Crash on opening a document |
| 3958 | Crash when creating a header |
| 3959 | Redraw of Insert Symbol badly broken |
| 3960 | Initial Zoom setting wrong |
| 4040 | Build with Perl 5.8.0 fails again |
| 4119 | crash with a .abw using a font which is not 'enabled' wit... |
| 4178 | neither package nor source works on freebsd |
| 4201 | Jagged right margin for justified text |
| 4213 | Produces invalid HTML and XHTML (trouble with li tags) |
| 4268 | Bad link error |
| 4275 | original table width not imported |
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| 1723 | [RFE] allow users to specify external image editor |
| 2205 | Abi crashes opening a doc file |
| 2233 | some doc file cause abiword to exit directly |
| 3897 | Can only run as root user |
| 4177 | pspell missing in system location according to configure |
| 4181 | AbiWord saves .abw documents as phtml |
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| 14 | Undo of an alignment operation crashes AbiWord |
| 15 | Selecting close from a window exits the application |
| 21 | GTK yes-no dialog does not accept Y and N keys |
| 37 | You cannot choose the file menu when two AbiWord windows ... |
| 121 | Cut/Paste does not cut and paste formatted text |
| 161 | the CVS version as of Jan 21 (morning) won't save (create... |
| 278 | File selection dialog does not include TXT in the dropdown |
| 418 | URL in about dialog is not hooked up yet. |
| 437 | Text after a tab disappears when deleting text before the... |
| 543 | Version 0.7.4 does not compile |
| 544 | Does not compile |
| 553 | Fails to compile with gcc 2.95 |
| 606 | splash screen is obscured |
| 868 | the program goes down when i try to import a word document |
| 869 | [CRASH] Abiword Segfault |
| 996 | abisuite-0.7.11 rpm package rpmReadSignature failed |
| 998 | Abiword 0.7.11 rpm install fails on Redhat Linux 6.1 |
| 1038 | AbiWord crashes after 2 opens |
| 1039 | Both dynamic .rpm and static tar.gz fail to start. |
| 1044 | AbiWord 0.7.14 crashes opening this document |
| 1058 | [crash] Pasting long lines of text |
| 1066 | AbiWord crashes opening HTML document |
| 1071 | New installation - program crashes |
| 1078 | Starting of abisuite-gnome-0.7.12.i386.rpm |
| 1104 | AbiWord crashes when trying to load MS Word file |
| 1157 | This MS-Word document crashes 0.7.13 |
| 1158 | 0.7.13 mangles this MS-Word document |
| 1312 | Crash when import MS word document |
| 1324 | When loading this RTF-File, the text is invisible (white) |
| 1377 | Error opening this Microsoft Word Document |
| 1396 | abiword aborts on startup on certain MS-Word file |
| 1541 | cursor disappears on zoom |
| 1555 | segfault on pressing "new" in styles dialog. |
| 1567 | abiword cannot load many .abw files |
| 1630 | Consider adding "Document" under "Format" menu |
| 1647 | Preview as web completely nonfunctional |
| 1703 | Cursor dissapears when you change zoom with toolbar. |
| 1729 | AbiWord does not Copy and Paste Images+Text correctly |
| 1815 | crash when deleting |
| 1926 | RTF Doc crashes Ab |
| 2014 | Could not start AbiWord |
| 2060 | Opening MS Word 97 document freezes Entire desktop and X |
| 2093 | Links to .tar.gz-versions of AbiWord are broken |
| 2156 | lastest CVS build crashes |
| 2173 | This RTF document crashes at import |
| 2216 | Import of Word doc is really slow |
| 2284 | can't open ABW file |
| 2305 | Replace All should report # changes or not found |
| 2327 | Bug with a word 97 rtf file |
| 2355 | Can't open files created with an earlier version of AbiWord |
| 2403 | Core dump - copy & paste between windows |
| 2542 | Abiword crash on loading document |
| 2569 | Crash when closing a document |
| 2592 | That word file crash abiword |
| 2615 | Editing problem after closing a document. |
| 2633 | RTF documents that crash abiword |
| 2643 | can't start AbiWord app |
| 2676 | AbiWord crashes at startup |
| 2725 | AbiWord doesnt open HTML documents. |
| 2850 | Segfault when cutting from a document. |
| 2851 | Abiword Seg faults when opening a .doc file in Redhat 7.2... |
| 2870 | "Tools - Preferences - Spelling - Reset - Yes" crashes |
| 3053 | abi word crashes when I attempt to open a second document |
| 3190 | Abi crashes with this .doc file |
| 3222 | Undo undoes everything |
| 3230 | Undo twice in a row reverts to saved document |
| 3438 | undo undoes whole paragraph |
| 3521 | RTF fails to import |
| 3587 | Superscript problem in version 1.0.2 |
| 3638 | loading attached .doc crashes abiword |
| 4228 | Top and bottom grey space is different |
| 4267 | please commit strings |
Flushed Bugs
What you see here are either invalid bug reports or duplicates. So, basically, I'm showing everyone else how doofy you are sometimes. On average*, confirming duplication or non-validity takes four minutes and thirty-five seconds. That's the equivelant of 8LLOC of time for Dom. Any other questions why development isn't as fast as you want?
| Non-Bugs Flushed this Week | |
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| 1441 | feature request: incremental selection |
| 1752 | Pref dialog should have default save directory and format |
| 2743 | better select behaviour, click once select word, click ag... |
| 3206 | Saving as word is not automatic |
| 3545 | Footers misplaced in imported MS-Word (97?) - *.docs |
| 3657 | Rapid Document Production, Insert File |
| 4044 | Text save question marks |
| 4050 | No Rich Text in pasting |
| 4118 | Errors in document after opening |
| 4131 | Abiword (almost) always opens in maximized mode |
| 4153 | Width in pull-down shutsdown AbiWord |
| 4156 | The program crashes when "fit to page width" is selected. |
| 4169 | top and bottom margins |
| 4179 | abiword should save session info |
| 4182 | Save and Save As do the exact same thing |
| 4184 | Crash on opening a previously edited Document |
| 4188 | All MS WORD documents were converted ro AbiWord immediate... |
| 4189 | All MS WORD documents were converted ro AbiWord immediate... |
| 4190 | All MS WORD documents were converted ro AbiWord immediate... |
| 4191 | All MS WORD documents were converted ro AbiWord immediate... |
| 4204 | "Save" always behaves like "Save As" for Word (.doc) format |
| 4206 | scroll wheel bug lives on |
| 4210 | Text rendered as squares |
| 4212 | Phantom Text appears after loading file with custom tab s... |
| 4214 | icons and words switchability |
| 4217 | Wrong line lenght, wont justify either... |
| 4218 | Wrong line lenght, wont justify either... |
| 4220 | Opening .kwd files |
| 4232 | Tabbed Browsing of Multiple Files |
| 4233 | print rview button |
| 4234 | Extreemly trivial bug in the zoom function |
| 4248 | 'keep with next' and 'keep lines together' don't work |
| 4249 | abiword adds some extra bytes at the end of line |
| 4254 | fonts problem in spell check window |
| 4258 | smart Black&White printing |
| 4262 | Moving Text by Dragging |
| 4278 | Print Preview |
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| 4285 | Setting paths |
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| 1113 | icons on button bar unusable with dark themes |
| 2530 | altgr+e (EuroSign) causes core dump |
| 2549 | Remember window position doesn't work when opening a file... |
| 3900 | Remembering page margins |
| 3931 | can't open an old v0.7 abiword document in v1.0.2 |
| 4003 | default page margins |
| 4033 | spell checker erratic |
| 4084 | German menu translation buggy |
| 4109 | will not print highlights or un\overlines |
| 4161 | Abiword Needs a styles browser |
| 4172 | Can't edit footnotes and endnotes of .doc files |
| 4176 | [Spanish] Error al importar fichero .html |
| 4187 | All MS WORD documents were converted ro AbiWord immediate... |
| 4227 | Abi name is confused |
| 4236 | Spell Check Toggle for Styles |
| 4237 | menubar columns |
| 4246 | highlighting problem with double spaced text |
| 4256 | Howto subscribe |
| 4257 | import of tables is incomplete in this word doc |
| 4260 | abiword -print undocumented |
| 4274 | no collation |
| 4279 | PSpell library linking errors |
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| 1588 | abiword should recognise its own the backup files |
| 3723 | a block shouldn't have the title in the previous page |
| 3875 | [RFE] Lotus Word Pro import support |
| 3906 | Port AbiWord to Palm |
| 3934 | Show only languages you have installed dictionaries for |
| 3965 | 1.0.2 geometry on FBSD 4.6 |
| 4069 | Word File that isn't displayed properly |
| 4121 | ./configure reports fribidi to be optional |
| 4223 | abiword asks for password when opening MS Word document |
| 4231 | http://www.abisource.com/contribute/ pours over page |
| 4250 | Close button under abiword toolbar |
| 4269 | No M$-fonts in RH8. |
Caught Bugs
Bug spotters, beware, we're watching you!
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| 3114 | abiword crashes when I attempt to load a particular RTF f... |
| 3194 | Changing Normal Style crashes AbiWord |
| 3224 | "ç" bug (letter c with cedilla) |
| 3707 | too narrow drop down box for 'fonts' |
| 3713 | status bar can not display correct strings in different l... |
| 3727 | page setup preferences not saved |
| 3772 | [RFE] user defined zoom setting could be easier to enter |
| 3862 | Add Support for ASCII art |
| 4160 | crashes when printing...strace included |
| 4240 | Abiword crashes when I close one of the multiple windows |
| 4241 | can not print on apollo p-1200 printer |
| 4264 | french canada |
| 4266 | Punctuation misplaced in bi-directional text |
| 4273 | Changing focus in Image Properties window loses changes |
| 4277 | Residue outline of paper is visible |
| 4281 | 12 page document with pictures hangs forever (>12hours) l... |
| 4284 | Cannot Type swedish characters åäö |
| 4286 | Cannot compile src/tools/ttftool/unix |
| 4287 | Little bits of menus get left behind when you move the mo... |
| 4291 | Existing hyperlink list unimplemented. |
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| 1942 | RFE - Print Preview option would be useful |
| 2263 | [RFE] Please consider adding mail merge capability |
| 3239 | [META] Windows printing bugs |
| 3307 | Should have dialog-contextual help |
| 3325 | Suggestion: Ability to change default save format |
| 3495 | [rfe] Use ASpell user custom dictionary |
| 3543 | Strings translation missing for fr-BE |
| 3625 | Multi Substitution waste memory |
| 3641 | [Usuability] Overwrite Warning, or "Why is it deleting my.. |
| 3668 | Support for window tabs instead of separate windows |
| 3678 | [STABLE]Crash when editing this Word document |
| 3691 | Add a configurable default documents directory. |
| 3697 | [crash] blank abiword document viewed as text (View Source) |
| 3832 | Make "View -> Zoom ->" menu items bulleted |
| 3851 | Recent file weirdness |
| 3858 | export wrong content when choosing export to "Simplified ... |
| 3873 | Blinking cursor in combo boxes doesn't disappear when unf... |
| 3953 | Meta bug for 1.0.4 pending issues |
| 3970 | changing layouts can lead to showing other location than ... |
| 4046 | The spellchecker has gone gonzo since upgrading from 1.0.... |
| 4120 | AbiWord should have 32-bit icons for Windows XP |
| 4174 | German (Austria) should be treated identically to German ... |
| 4202 | Simple line entered and saved - wrong display when reloaded |
| 4230 | Keyboard shortcut not displayed for Paste Unformatted |
| 4242 | AbiWord dies when saving a Word document. |
| 4243 | AbiWord crashes when opening a document |
| 4244 | Insert Hyperlink, better parsing needed. |
| 4245 | AbiPaint, specify image editor does not work properly |
| 4247 | just 'en' locale strings files instead of en-IE, en-GB, e... |
| 4251 | Right-click for show/hide toolbars |
| 4252 | [META] Centralised language/locale fallback logic |
| 4253 | Mouse Pointer and text selection |
| 4255 | "border color" in Format Table should be "background color" |
| 4259 | smart Black&White printing |
| 4263 | --print undocumented |
| 4265 | Cursor size does not grow to font size right away |
| 4270 | Fonts located in subdirectories of ~/.font/ are not loaded |
| 4271 | printing b&w or grayscale in the command line |
| 4272 | Export to TXT messes up with some characters |
| 4276 | Auto-detect of file type is broken |
| 4282 | lots of garbages displayed with this .doc file |
| 4283 | // comments expose a lot of bugs |
| 4288 | Exporting rtf files to html causes loss of images |
| 4289 | Caret displays incorrectly |
| 4290 | Font name and size displayed wrongly in toolbar |
| 4292 | crash just after start-up when running remotely |
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| 1525 | Preferences -> Toolbars, Button Style, Both |
| 1956 | HTML exported lists are buggy!! |
| 2417 | Undo does not work properly with bookmarks |
| 2481 | win32: Shouldn't be possible to enter "0" for Autosave fr... |
| 2821 | [RFE] - Drag and drop editing |
| 2857 | Inserting bookmarks or hyperlinks messes up justified text |
| 2907 | Keep with next paragraph doesn't work for me |
| 3042 | printer list |
| 3055 | rfe: clicking thrice should select cluster of letters ins... |
| 3487 | Crash occurs when copied text color is changed |
| 3528 | Support hidden text in documents |
| 3872 | insert hyperlink in header or footer |
| 4068 | Crash when mouse leaves selected header |
| 4093 | Program Terminates on Open |
| 4097 | Save dialog file extension weirdness |
| 4183 | Save/reload puts spurious characters in simple file in 1.0.3 |
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| 1537 | [crash] Copy and Paste with a large document crashes AW |
| 2792 | .ABW files aren't associated with AbiWord in GNOME |
| 3297 | Problem with libxml2 at least on RH |
| 3402 | Abiword Icon |
| 3801 | Incremental loader seems to struggle with large files |
| 3842 | Wrong highlighted option in zoom list |
| 3914 | Detect font file type by looking at the content, rather t... |
| 4072 | should tell which hash file it uses |
| 4146 | fix quit confirmation to comply with GNOME HIG |
| 4211 | Keyboard editing problems |
| 4261 | no link to spell soft |
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Release HackDown
This is an AbiWord Weekly News original concept: The Release Hackdown. In the table below, you can watch what bugs are being fixed in preparation for the very next release. Check the key at the bottom to understand formatting.
No pressure, guys, I'm sure only 2000 or so people will be watching to see what you do weekly. That breaks down to about 285 people daily and 12 people hourly, so, it's like being peeked at once every five minutes, literally. "Isn't that veird!?"
| HackDown to 1.0.4 | |
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| 2223 | cannot open psiWord files (re-opened) |
| 3008 | Cursor not initially in hyperlink dialog |
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Smart Insert Hyperlink, check to see if selected text is a hyperlink |
| 3171 | rtf sets top and bottom margins to 0 (re-opened) |
| 3239 | [META] Windows printing bugs |
| 3453 | Crashes repeatably while attempting to edit header |
| 3488 | Weird crash when editing |
| 3489 | Crash when deregistering plugins |
| 3561 | Crash on embedded AbiWord in Evolution |
| 3625 | Multi Substitution waste memory |
| 3632 | editing the numbering style of a roman numeral list hangs/crashes |
| 3645 | Page setup has a problem with margins in millimeters |
| 3678 | [STABLE]Crash when editing this Word document |
| 3686 | XAbiword version for bundle not properly set. |
| 3697 | [crash] blank abiword document viewed as text (View Source) |
| 3755 | AbiWord crashes during import of this MS Word document |
| 3766 | Dvorak Keyboard |
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Loading World.abw crashes AbiWord" |
| 3858 | export wrong content when choosing export to "Simplified Chinese GB_2312-80" encoded text |
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Too Many Curly Brackets in Exported LaTeX (duplicate) |
| 4046 | The spellchecker has gone gonzo since upgrading from 1.0.2 to 1.0.3 |
| 4068 | Crash when mouse leaves selected header |
| 4070 | [META] crash on load bugs |
| 4093 | Program Terminates on Open |
| 4097 | Save dialog file extension weirdness |
| 4125 | .doc file does not import correctly (BiDi issues). |
| 4183 | Save/reload puts spurious characters in simple file in 1.0.3 |
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*Strike-out bug numbers and greyed text are resolved. *Bold bug numbers and bold text are assigned. *Italicized bug numbers and italicized text are unconfirmed. *Removed bugs are a sign you're being screwed. |
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Ah, being the editor...let's talk about what's been going on. Added and suddenly found a duplicate, 4212 is the only action going on this week....
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Betchya you thought you knew what went here, eh?
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