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AbiWord Weekly News #97, (2002, week 25, released 2002.06.24)
Welcome to issue 97 of the AbiWord Weekly News.
This week Martin made the tables span multiple pages. And there was much rejoicing, waving of little flags and the usual hacking.
As you might have noticed, the number of open Bugs have been growing rapidly recently. That's due to the BugZilla update, which resulted in all newly created Bugs to be opened automatically. It'll take a while before we get those Bugs moved to the UNCONFIRMED state where they rightfully belong.
In this issue:
Editor(s) of this issue: Jesper Skov
CVS Stats
| CVS checkins 2002.06.17 - 2002.06.23 | ||
| Who | Commits | In summary |
| mgilbert | 35 | Fix unix build, makefile overhaul, build document update, and removed unused psiconv defs. |
| fjfranklin | 22 | libpng peer build system, encoding manager tweak, and autoconf/make tweaks. |
| plam | 15 | Prevent endnote insertion in endnotes, refactored findFont function, WordPerfect importer improvements (from Will Lachance), endnote crash fixes, and some code cleanup. |
| msevior | 12 | Support for breaking tables over multiple pages. |
| dom | 12 | gtk_init call changes, endcell export tweak, work on Bug 3595, fixed Bug 3638, and updated language list to support 65 languages. |
| phearbear | 8 | Fixed Bug 3647 and other QNX work. |
| uwog | 5 | WordPerfect exporter work: export font sizes, export paragraph justification and some code cleanup. |
| mpritchett | 3 | msxml support improvements, and fixed Bug 3523. |
| rms | 3 | RPM spec work. |
| dchart | 2 | ChangeLog updates. |
| row | 1 | Removed some C++ style comments in a C file. |
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 ...... |
| 3269 | 120 | --- | Crashing on printing |
| 1402 | 95 | Future | Can not use other than original type1 fonts |
| 376 | 79 | 1.2 | File assosciate problems for all file types with Win32Slu...... |
| 1124 | 69 | 1.2 | Does not honor config/-geometry request |
| 1406 | 59 | 1.0.x | xhtml documents fail to open: "Bogus html document" msg |
| 3171 | 55 | 1.0.x | rtf sets top and bottom margins to 0 |
| 1747 | 42 | 1.2 | background colour of text selection is always grey |
| 1194 | 38 | 1.2 | alt+xxxx does not insert special symbols |
| 2598 | 36 | 1.2 | Abiword installs bogus fonts of dubious heritage |
| 1818 | 33 | --- | Font reverts to Times New Roman when it shouldn't |
| 2362 | 30 | --- | AbiWord only prints across half of page |
| 3525 | 30 | --- | font incorrectly printed and spaced |
| 465 | 28 | Future | Haettenschweiler font doesn't draw with correct spacing w...... |
| 2868 | 25 | 1.2 | character widths are not calculated correctly for some fonts... |
| 2421 | 20 | 1.2 | TM, Bullet, Euro, Smart Quotes and other symbols originat...... |
| 1394 | 17 | 1.2 | on-screen landscape actually prints portrait in Win95 |
| 3216 | 16 | 1.0.x | tabstops can't be set in second (or third) column |
| 2299 | 15 | Future | Prints incorrect margins with split page. |
| Top 20 Requests For Enhancement | |||
| ID | Votes | Milestone | Summary |
| 1276 | 823 | 1.2 | Table support |
| 1261 | 481 | 1.2 | Need to support footnotes and endnotes |
| 2321 | 244 | Future | [RFE] Maths/Equation Editing, as a plugin maybe? |
| 2183 | 150 | Future | Fully Support OpenOffice's XML file format |
| 2365 | 87 | Future | AbiWord needs 'view codes' |
| 1374 | 71 | Future | [RFE] print odd and/or even pages only (for front & back ... |
| 1950 | 52 | Future | Wish for automatic Table of Contents |
| 2463 | 51 | Future | support embedded objects |
| 1929 | 41 | Future | Hyphenation is missing in Abiword |
| 1144 | 32 | Future | Improve KWord import/export filters |
| 515 | 30 | Future | columns change should only affect selected text |
| 2186 | 30 | Future | The insert page break setting is lost for custom styles |
| 3657 | 30 | --- | Rapid Document Production |
| 2565 | 29 | Future | Add true MS Word .doc export capability |
| 2219 | 23 | Future | AUTONUM wanted in [ Insert/Field/Number ] menu |
| 2360 | 23 | Future | Resizing bitmap images |
| 2083 | 22 | 1.2 | [RFE] Export WordPerfect format files |
| 2296 | 22 | Future | doc import: footnotes |
| 2169 | 21 | Future | Line numbering |
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 |
| 1996 | After File --> Close, sometimes there is a document and s... |
| 3389 | Alignment Justify doesn't work when printing |
| 3540 | change section format -> crash |
| 3565 | Statusline text box could be wider |
| 3608 | ie_imp_AbiWord_1.cpp pointless comparison of `trim' with 0. |
| 3638 | loading attached .doc crashes abiword |
| 3659 | Mail server allows spam |
| This Week's 5 Most Active QA Helpers | |
| Verified | Name |
| 5 | webmaster@dofty.zzn.com |
| 1 | Daniel Jensen |
| 1 | horkana@tcd.ie |
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. |
| Linux (GTK) | i386 | 24.98.8.129:3000/abiword-current.tar.gz | Mark Gilbert's GCC3 tinderbox builds. Do not require libstdc++-libc6.2 |
| 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:
patch -- Xft stuff: Joaquín has been working on using Xft for handling fonts on Linux. Much better and easier font support than what we had before. The stuff is still not checked in though, as there's an open discussion about how/when/where to do it, since it overlaps somewhat with the Pango work already in progress.
commit: Implement Tables broken across pages: Martin continues his table work...
Commit (HEAD): Wrap things up: Mark has been tweaking the diving make build system the last week.
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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