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AbiWord Weekly News #94, (2002, week 22, released 2002.06.03)
Welcome to issue 94 of the AbiWord Weekly News.
It has been a fairly slow week, but (as compensation?) AbiWord 1.0.2 is just about ready for release.
In this issue:
Editor(s) of this issue: Jesper Skov
CVS Stats
| CVS checkins 2002.05.26 - 2002.06.02 | ||
| Who | Commits | In summary |
| plam | 10 | Endnote undo fix, and AbiWikipedia plugin fix. |
| msevior | 9 | Table work. |
| dchart | 5 | Added docs for the property dialog. |
| dom | 4 | segv workaround, american spelling hash encoding file, spelling patch (from mg), and World.abw upadate (from Andrew Dunbar). |
| uwog | 4 | WordPerfect exporter work. |
| hub | 4 | lt-LT string update (from egle), and Cocoa setLine work. |
| fjfranklin | 2 | Makefile fixes. |
| rms | 2 | RPM spec hacks, updated pt-PT. |
Bug Update
Here's the AbiWord bug update for the last week. If you can spare some time, please help us triage the bugs - you don't need to be a programmer to do this.
Bug Statistics
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.
| Top 20 Problems | |||
| ID | Votes | Milestone | Summary |
| 1030 | 370 | Future | Installing AbiWord messes up fonts in other applications (e.... |
| 1402 | 95 | Future | Can not use other than original type1 fonts |
| 376 | 79 | 1.2 | File assosciate problems for all file types with Win32Slurp |
| 1124 | 69 | 1.2 | Does not honor config/-geometry request |
| 3269 | 60 | --- | Crashing on printing |
| 1406 | 57 | 1.0.x | xhtml documents fail to open: "Bogus html document" msg |
| 3171 | 45 | 1.0.x | rtf sets top and bottom margins to 0 |
| 1747 | 42 | 1.2 | background colour of text selection is always grey |
| 2598 | 36 | 1.2 | Abiword installs bogus fonts of dubious heritage |
| 1818 | 30 | --- | Font reverts to Times New Roman when it shouldn't |
| 1194 | 30 | 1.2 | alt+xxxx does not insert special symbols |
| 465 | 28 | Future | Haettenschweiler font doesn't draw with correct spacing when... |
| 2868 | 25 | 1.2 | character widths are not calculated correctly for some fonts... |
| 1394 | 17 | 1.2 | on-screen landscape actually prints portrait in Win95 |
| 2362 | 15 | --- | AbiWord only prints across half of page |
| 2299 | 15 | Future | Prints incorrect margins with split page. |
| 372 | 15 | Future | consolidate identical platform code |
| 1865 | 13 | --- | Header/footer not loaded properly from .doc |
| 2962 | 13 | 1.2 | Printer problems with Lexmark printers on Windows |
| Top 20 Requests For Enhancement | |||
| ID | Votes | Milestone | Summary |
| 1276 | 823 | 1.2 | Table support |
| 1261 | 443 | 1.2 | Need to support footnotes and endnotes |
| 2321 | 249 | Future | [RFE] Maths/Equation Editing, as a plugin maybe? |
| 2183 | 121 | --- | Fully Support OpenOffice's XML file format |
| 2365 | 93 | Future | AbiWord needs 'view codes' |
| 1374 | 66 | Future | [RFE] print odd and/or even pages only (for front & back pri |
| 1950 | 52 | Future | Wish for automatic Table of Contents |
| 1929 | 41 | Future | Hyphenation is missing in Abiword |
| 2463 | 41 | Future | support embedded objects |
| 515 | 35 | Future | columns change should only affect selected text |
| 1144 | 32 | Future | Improve KWord import/export filters |
| 2360 | 23 | Future | Resizing bitmap images |
| 1270 | 23 | Future | Abiword should graphical columns ala wordperfect 8/9 |
| 2296 | 22 | Future | doc import: footnotes |
| 2219 | 22 | Future | AUTONUM wanted in [ Insert/Field/Number ] menu |
| 2083 | 22 | 1.2 | [RFE] Export WordPerfect format files |
| 2169 | 21 | Future | Line numbering |
| 2294 | 20 | Future | Tool palette instead of toolbars |
| 1525 | 20 | Future | Preferences -> Toolbars, Button Style, Both |
Verified Bugs
In the past week, the following Bugs have been verified as fixed. The listed Bugs have all been put in RESOLVED mode as either FIXED or WORKSFORME and have then been verified by the people listed below. Other causes of resolving a Bug (e.g. as INVALID) are not tracked since they usually do not represent a fixed problem.
| Bugs Verified This Week | |
| Bug ID | Description |
| 3234 | print output messed up |
| 3423 | AbiWord segfaults on opening this document |
| 3497 | mouse text selection is broken |
| 3499 | printing fail to printing lot of words |
| This Week's 5 Most Active QA Helpers | |
| Verified | Name |
| 3 | Hubert Figuiere |
| 1 | linux@dchart.demon.co.uk |
To get your name in neon, help QA the Bugs. If you want your name rather than your email address to appear, drop me a line.
Latest Releases
Here are links to the latest official releases of AbiWord for various architectures and operating systems.
These are links to snapshot builds of AbiWord for a subset of the supported architectures/operating systems.
Note that the snapshot builds may not work (at all!), but are likely to include more features and have fewer bugs than (older) official releases. Use the official releases for "production systems" and the snapshot builds for testing and when you want to help with Bug triaging.
| OS | CPU | URL | Comment |
| AbiWord Snapshots | |||
| Linux (GNOME+GTK) | i386 | http://pinohuis.dhs.org/uwog/abiword/ | Provided by Marc Maurer. These are updated daily. Plugins, clip art, fonts and help files are available too. |
| Win32 | i386 | http://abiword.pchasm.org/ | Provided by Jeremy Davis. These are updated twice a day. Plugins are available too. |
| Win32 | i386 | http://www.niksbiks.dk/Software/Abi/ | Provided by Nikolaj Brandt Jensen. These are updated about once a week. BiDi builds are available too. |
On the Mailing List
Traffic on the developer mailing list has settled at about 200-400 postings per week.
You may also find interesting threads on the user and documentation lists (unfortunately the archive for the latter is broken at the moment).
This week, interesting topics on the developer list included:
Abiword ended my marriage!: There was a slashdot poll on Favorite Office Suite. A few interesting comments about AbiWord to be read there.
Special Interest --
From time to time, this section will contain essay-style text about various special interests of the AbiWord development.
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