AbiWord-2.0 Beta 1 released. (As 1.99.1)

From: msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au
Date: Sun Jun 22 2003 - 12:44:02 EDT

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    AbiWord 1.99.1 is available for immediate download from
    http://www.abisource.com.

    The is our first beta release for our next stable version AbiWord-2.0

    This release contains bugs some of which have already been found and
    fixed. We invite interested users to test AbiWord-1.99.1 and report bugs
    to http://bugzilla.abisource.com/
    The 1.99.1 Changelog from the previous release follows.

    1.99.1 Changelog

    Besnik Bleta
    Albanian localisation work.

    David Chart
    Documentation work.

    Francesco Cheratzu
    Sardinian localisation work.

    Gery Deloge
    Fixes for BeOS: better handling of tooltips, better 3D icons in toobars.

    Andrew Dunbar
    Spelling suggestion code refactoring.
    Removed dead STL code.
    Update to MSVC6 build system.
    Fixed a casting bug.
    Removed Win32 references to document locale.
    Fixes to Albanian strings file.
    Updated non-US English strings files.
    Fixes and clean-up in Language dialog code.

    Hubert Figuiere
    Fixed excessive document redrawing when changin zoom to same value.
    Some code refactoring.
    Fix a crasher in cocoa.
    Fixed a potential bug/compile warning.
    Implemented XP glyph measurement caching, and fixed Unix build.
    Fixed numerous compiler warnings.
    A small optimisation in DrawChars.
    Fixes for retarded (old, presumably) libc.
    Fix cocoa prefs dialog now that page size is in normal.awt.
    Added some asserts if width and height are improperly set while drawing.
    Fix cocoa caret.
    Fix cocoa printing.
    Bug fixes: 5118,5137

    Raphael Finkel
    Yiddish localisation work.

    Bryan Forbes
    Updated gucharmap support to 0.7, which has a completely new API.

    Frank Franklin
    Fixed a hash map and added three new ones. These maps should allow cleaner
    code.
    Added a new abibits module to CVS. This is some sort of MacOS X material.
    Bug fixes: 3614, 5094

    Tomas Frydrych
    Moved MSWord list processing code from Abi to wv, so that we now get the
    proper indents.
    Import footnotes/endnotes from MSWord.
    Improved reliability of MSWord import code.
    Work on importing headers/footers from MSWord.
    Added asserts concerning code assumptions about the compiler.
    Header/footer import working for Word9.
    Fix two segfaults in the status bar.
    BiDi fixes in RTF and Word import.
    Fixed handling of page break character in Word import.
    Unique ID generating class.
    Work on list import from Word.
    Import of endnotes and footnote/endnote options from RTF.
    Added more Arabic ligatures and letters. Some optimisation of the context
    glyph code.
    Removed an incorrect assert from abw importer.
    Import of headers is shared between sections in Word import.
    Fixed a memory leak in glyph width caching.
    Fixed a BiDi-related crasher.
    Various BiDi fixes.
    Various Word import fixes.
    Fix Word importer to import fields in fields (such as ToC fields), and to
    respect background colours.
    Fixed a copy/paste error in wv.
    Stopped the text importer trying to import non-text documents.
    Small fix to appendSpan.
    Fix to Word import header code.
    Improvement to incremental loader.
    Added command to import styles (only) from a document or template. Works
    for abi (documents and templates), rtf, and MSWord.
    Reverted the Win32 unicode patch, as it made Abi unusable in any language
    other than English.
    wv fixes.
    Fix UT_Language.
    Added code to import document properties from an Abi document or template.
    BiDi fixes.
    Ligature code work.
    Bug fixes: 2584, 3622, 3745, 3823, 4715 (in wv), 5095, 5175 (partial, wv &
    abi), 5176 (in wv)

    Mark Gilbert
    Fixed wv build.
    Fix to wv to allow Abi to build against generic wv builds.
    Fixed a crasher in the page setup dialog.
    Fixed abicommand plugin to work with new find stuff.
    Fixed a crash due to empty plugin lists.

    Daniel Glassey
    Enable Unicode input on Win32.

    Marco Innocenti
    Italian localisation work.

    William Lachance
    Updated WP plugin to take account of recent changes to libwpd.
    Fixed a bug with the display of menu accelerator mnemonic on unix.
    Fix GUI widgets to use GTK+ standard font.
    Bug fixes: 4983

    Dom Lachowicz
    Removed C++ comment from wv code.
    Gladeified Encoding, Find and Replace, Language, More Windows, Password,
    Plugins, and Word Count dialogs.
    Moved locale and page size information from system profile to normal.awt.
    Fixes to T602 and XSL-FO plugins.
    Fix the Magick plugin.
    Ported Win32 Find & Replace changes to unix.
    Removed lots of gtk+ deprecated calls.
    Fix Insert Break and Insert Page Number dialogs.
    Gladeify New File dialog.
    Abi now imports default properties and styles from normal.awt before
    importing files which don't have such properties of their own.
    Fix for bad display bug.
    Fixed a unix printing bug.
    Completed addition of new icons.
    Bug fixes: 5131, 5140

    Jordi Mas
    Added check for unicows.dll on Win9x to avoid a crash when it wasn't there.
    Bug fixes: 5077 (partial), 5141, 5188

    Marc Maurer
    Import table column widths, table positions, footnotes, endnotes, and
    document metadata from WordPerfect documents. (Currently needs libwpd CVS
    HEAD.)
    Fixed a build failure.
    Draw dotted grey borders around a cell when its border is set to off.
    Glade files for various dialogs (incomplete).
    HIG cleanup on Unix Word Count dialog.
    Fixes to Format Table dialog.
    Gladeification of Styles dialog.
    Fixes to make line drawing work the same cross-platform.
    Replaced a number of icons with jimmac's latest. Drew a couple of icons
    himself.
    Bug fixes: 5015

    Christian Neumair
    Lots and lots of work to make Abi's dialogs conform to the Gnome Human
    Interface Guidelines.

    Michael Pritchett
    Fix cast problems.
    Win32 glyph caching work.
    Win32 build and warning fixes.

    Alberto Cabello Sanchez
    LaTeX export improvements.

    Rui Miguel Seabra
    Fix rpm building with ots plugin.

    Martin Sevior
    Fixes for RTF import of tables.
    Enable copy and paste of whole tables.
    Fixes to RTF import/export of positioned columns.
    Bug fix to MSWord lists.
    Fixes for copying and pasting tables.
    Disallow saves if the piecetable is changing.
    Work on the incremental loader.
    Fix display of cursor on top line of screen.
    Remove some pixel dirt and blank artefacts.
    Export documents with footnotes/endnotes to HTML, putting footnotes and
    endnotes at the end.
    Removed cursor dirt when scrolling with the caret off-screen.
    Arrow keys now move out of foonote/endnote containers.
    HIGified Format Footnotes dialog on Unix.
    Export column widths to HTML.
    Cosmetic fix for table drawing.
    Fix image export to HTML.
    Compile fixes for sdw and t602 plugins.
    Fix more bugs with column insertions in tables.
    Fix insert rows in tables.
    Allow (under protest) Abi to handle tables with edges outside the page
    margins.
    Added code to allow plugins to extract text from the document.
    Fixes to the bonobo component, making it draw rulers and a blank area
    before the doc finishes loading.
    Fix cursor size changes.
    Autoupdate document suffix when changing save as type on unix.
    Fixed find/replace to work with tables and footnotes.
    Bug fixes: 5117, 5150 (partial), 5152

    Giovanni Sora
    Italian localisation work.

    Jun Suzuki
    Fix three BeOS hangs.
    Fix problems with showing and hiding UI features on BeOS.
    Internationalisation work on BeOS.
    Fix toolbar show/hide function on BeOS.
    Allow search dialog to accept non-ASCII on BeOS.
    Fix BeOS enable/disable of menu items.
    Fix BeOS option and font dialogs.
    Fix BeOS full screen mode.

    Stephen Viles
    Bug fixes: 428

    Ruud Vring
    Fix for Win32 status bar.



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