From: Martin Sevior (msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Thu Mar 27 2003 - 04:48:42 EST
On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 william.lachance@sympatico.ca wrote:
> Martin,
>
> You forgot to mention the significantly improved OpenOffice.org
> import/export. This is becoming more and more of a selling point as
> OpenOffice.org increases in popularity among linux/Windows users.
>
Sorry, I went through bonasi commits and it looked like there hadn't been
any OO filter activity since 1.1.3.
Maybe in the future I should ask people to email me a summary of what they
have done since the last release.
> (incidentally, for those who care, the ooo conference was great, I'm
> still in Europe, hacking on wordperfect a bit, but mostly just enjoying
> Southern France. I'll have more stories to share when I get back to
> North America).
>
Cool. I read mmeeks slide show on what ximinian is doing with OO. It
sounds pretty cool.
Cheers
Martin
> Cheers,
>
> William Lachance
> william.lachance@sympatico.ca
> >
> > From: Martin Sevior <msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au>
> > Date: 2003/03/26 Wed AM 04:25:42 EST
> > To: abiword-dev@abisource.com, <abiword-user@abisource.com>
> > Subject: Unstable development version 1.1.4 released.
> >
> > AbiWord-1.1.4 has been released!
> >
> > This version of AbiWord is basically feature complete for the final 2.0.
> > It offers substantial new features and tons of bug fixes over 1.1.3.
> > It can be downloaded from http://www.abisource.com
> > Many people find it stable enough enough for everyday use but we really
> > want lots of testing. Please report any bugs found to
> > http://bugzilla.abisource.com
> > We have built binaries for Windows, QNX and Redhat 8.0 GTK-only. We have
> > an excellent Gnome2.2 port but we have not made a binary for it because
> > RedHat 9 with it's Gnome 2.2 features is not released yet. To build it
> > you'll need Gnome 2.2 plus gal 1.99 or later.
> >
> > Among the highlights since 1.1.3.
> > Layout of text is now fully independent of resolution. We
> > guarantee 100% WYSIWYG at all zoom levels and for printed documents. -
> > Pat Lam, Dom
> > Glade and HIGification of dialogs - Marc Maurer
> > QNX specific fixes for new layout code - Johann Bjork
> > Win32 specific fixes for new layout code - Jordi Mass
> > Fully editable Footnotes and Endnotes - Martin
> > Text selection now uses theme colour - Dom
> > Text selection uses dark colour - Tomas Frydich
> > A huge number of C => C++ casts fixed - Andrew Dunbar
> > Major selection and motion speed ups - Martin
> > Gnome 2.2 port fully functional again - Dom (needs Gnome2
> > libraries)
> > Drag and drop from Nautilus works - Dom
> > Gnome-print works - Dom
> > Copy and paste (X)HTML from moz, evolution to AbiWord -Dom
> > Print Justified text on Unix and Gnome - Dom
> > Embeddable bonobo Control ported to Gnome 2 - Dom, Martin
> > Contextual help for QNX - Johann Bjork
> > QNX uses utf-8 for all strings - Johann Bjork
> > XFT - fontconfig fixes - Joaquin Cuenca Abela
> > Documentation updates - David Chart
> > Translation coordination and verification - Pierre Abbat, Rui M.
> > Silva Seabra
> > Build system fixes and improvements - Francis J. Franklin, Mark
> > Gilbert
> > Improved (X)HTML import/export - Francis J. Franklin
> > Various OSX port improvements and fixes - hub
> > Grab and drag table lines and controls - Martin
> > Windows Build fixes - Jeremy Davis, Michael Pritchet
> > XML fixes - Jeremy Davis
> > AWN insanity and local drug supply - E.A. Zen
> > Word Perfect import/export - Will Lachance, Marc Maurer
> > rpm spec file fixes - Rui M. Silva Seabra
> > Tons of bugfixes and mem leaks plugged - Dom, Martin, Pat, Hub,
> > Jordi, Jesper, Jeremy Davis, Mikey Cooper, SamTH, Michael Pritchet, Rui M.
> > Silva Seabra, Tomas Fridych, Francis J. Franklin
> >
> > New and updated translations
> > Albainian - Besnik Bleta
> > German - Christian Neumair
> > Malay - Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan
> > Japanese - Masayuki Hatta
> > Yiddish - Raphael Finkel
> > Chinese - Anthony Fok
> > Amharic - Daniel Yacob
> > Mexican Spanish - Nikolai Vladychevski
> > Portugese - Rui M. Silva Seabra
> > Galician - Ramon Flores.
> > Dutch - Marc Maurer
> > French - Pierre Abbat
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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