AbiWord v2.7.6 Changelog

Core

• Bug 1349: Add support for native JPEGs to AbiWord (Hubert Figuiere)
• Bug 10250: Crash when inserting an endnote above a nested table (Martin Sevior)
• Bug 10573: Crash when cutting text (Martin Sevior)
• Bug 10649: Excessive space at the bottom of pages when using footnotes (Martin Sevior)
• Bug 11777: Dragging an image past the bottom page causes continuous scrolling (Martin Sevior)
• Bug 12155: Numbered lists use incorrect numbering for nested items (Martin Sevior, Marc Maurer)
• Bug 12178: Invalid .abw file created after dragging one hyperlink into another (Martin Sevior)
• Fix a crash that occurred when visually dragging wrapped objects (Martin Sevior)
• Fix endnote support with documents that contain section breaks (Martin Sevior)
• Improve support for page-anchored images and text boxes (Martin Sevior)
• Improve text wrapping around positioned objects (Martin Sevior)
• Make footnote and annotation layouts more accurate (Martin Sevior)
• Prevent some crashes triggered by dragging positioned images (Martin Sevior)
• Prevent some layout hangs (Martin Sevior)

GUI

Cross-platform

• Bug 3641: Implement an option to enable overwrite mode (Hubert Figuiere)
• Bug 9105: Clarify a help message in the styles dialog (Hubert Figuiere)
• Bug 12169: Incorrect file extension used when saving an image (Dom Lachowicz, Hubert Figuiere)
• Fix some image-related memory leaks (Hubert Figuiere)
• Group related items in the insert menu (Hubert Figuiere)
• Move the insert table and format table menu items to the format and insert menus (Hubert Figuiere)

Linux

• Bug 9255: Add a keyboard shortcut to the file-type selector (Hubert Figuiere)
• Bug 11710: Tooltips use label text instead of tooltip text (Dom Lachowicz)
• Bug 11953: Text smudges together when using certain fonts, particularly on BSD systems (John Wehle)
• Bug 12003: Support tight text wrapping around SVGs (Dom Lachowicz)
• Bug 12170: Incorrect tooltips used on the format toolbar (Dom Lachowicz)
• Add mime types for WordPerfect and AbiWord collaboration files to the abiword.desktop file (Marc Maurer)
• Fix some memory leaks in the graphics code (Hubert Figuiere)
• Import WMF files as SVGs instead of PNGs (Hubert Figuiere)

Mac

• Bug 8764: Add a scrollbar to the description field in the properties dialog (Hubert Figuiere)
• Bug 10095: Update the preferences dialog to match the Linux one (Hubert Figuiere)

Import/Export

General

• Bug 11581: File names with multiple dots cause AbiWord to detect an incorrect file extension (Marc Maurer)
• Fix a number of import and export errors caused by mix-ups between absolute file paths, relative file paths, and URIs (Marc Maurer, Hubert Figuiere)
• Repair documents that contain text and objects that are not inside paragraphs (Martin Sevior)

AbiWord

• Bug 12165: AbiWord fails to import an invalid .abw file (Martin Sevior)

DocBook

• Add support for native JPEGs and native SVGs to the exporter (Hubert Figuiere)
• Import native JPEGs properly (Hubert Figuiere)

HTML

• Add support for native JPEGs to the exporter (Hubert Figuiere)
• Don't export the MathML helper script when there are only SVGs in the document (Martin Sevior)

KWord

• Add support for native JPEGs to the exporter (Hubert Figuiere)

LaTeX

• Add support for native JPEGs to the exporter (Hubert Figuiere)

Microsoft Word (doc)

• Bug 12083: Crash with non-ASCII style names (Robert Wilhelm)
• Add preliminary support for EMF images to the importer (Hubert Figuiere)

Office Open XML (docx)

• Bug 11739: Images are not imported from .docx files (Firat Kiyak)
• Add support for bookmarks, columns, endnotes, fields, footnotes, hyperlinks, images, lists, tab stops, tables (and formatting), and text boxes to the importer (Firat Kiyak)
• Export proper tab stop leaders (Firat Kiyak)
• Export table background colors(Firat Kiyak)
• Fix a memory leak in the image-handling code (Hubert Figuiere)
• Fix table border sizes in the exporter (Firat Kiyak)
• Handle native JPEGs in the exporter (Hubert Figuiere)
• Improve page number support in the importer and exporter (Firat Kiyak)
• Improve support for multiple namespaces in .docx files (Firat Kiyak)

OpenDocument (odt)

• Bug 10091: Handle page-anchored text boxes (Martin Sevior)
• Bug 11943: Handle page-anchored images (Martin Sevior)
• Add support for native JPEGs to the exporter (Hubert Figuiere)
• Improve support for damaged .odt files (Hubert Figuiere)
• Use the page size defined by the first section for the entire document, since AbiWord does not support multiple page sizes per document (Martin Sevior)

OpenOffice.org (sxw)

• Add support for native JPEGs to the exporter (Hubert Figuiere)
• Fix a memory leak in the page orientation code (Hubert Figuiere)
• Fix memory corruption when importing master pages (Hubert Figuiere)

RTF

• Bug 3153: AbiWord fails to import a malformed RTF document (Hubert Figuiere)
• Bug 5741: Handle RTF files with broken color tables (Hubert Figuiere)
• Bug 7814: AbiWord has trouble laying out a complex RTF document (Martin Sevior)
• Bug 10770: Import RTF files with invalid font tables (Hubert Figuiere, Martin Sevior)
• Fix a potential problem when exporting directional text (Martin Sevior)
• Handle native JPEGs in the importer and exporter (Hubert Figuiere)
• Improve the pasting of text boxes with images inside of them (Martin Sevior)

WML

• Import native JPEGs (Hubert Figuiere)

XSL-FO

• Handle native SVGs and JPEGs in the exporter (Hubert Figuiere)

Installer

• Bug 11626: Remove references to Win9x support in the readme file (Dom Lachowicz)

Internationalization

• Update the Danish (da-DK) translation (Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér)
• Update the Hungarian (hu-HU) translation (Tamás Márton Klein)
• Update the Slovak (sk-SK) translation (Jaroslav Rynik)

Plug-ins

Collaboration

• Bug 12149: Crash in the collaboration plug-in after performing a command line conversion (Marc Maurer)
• Fix some crashes in the tunnel disconnect code (Marc Maurer)
• Fix the collaboration dialogs when cross-compiling (Fridrich Strba)

Development

Cross-platform