You can annotate any piece of text with a remark that will show up when you hover over it with your mouse. The collaboration support has been tightly integrated with the new online web service called, which lets you store documents online, allows easy document sharing with your friends, and performs format conversions on the fly.ĪbiWord gained support for annotations, or "comments". Figure 1 shows a document being edited by three different authors at the same time. For example, it gained the ability to distinguish the text written by different authors using various text highlight colors while collaborating. This release contains a number of exciting new features in addition to hundreds of bug fixes.ĪbiWord's collaborative capabilities are greatly improved in this release. It will take advantage of the functionality provided by the system, such as image loading or printing capabilities.ĪbiWord is the latest release of the multi-platform word processor that combines state-of-the-art usability, powerful features, and excellent interoperability. There used to be a BeOS port, but that version has been gone unmaitained for too long to consider it as still alive we dreamt that it was any different, so if you want to help, feel free to contact us.Įnjoy your favorite Word Processor on the operating system you like to use - be it Windows, Linux, QNX, FreeBSD or Solaris.ĪbiWord has been designed to integrate perfectly with the operating system it runs on. We also have a MacOS X native port in the way (you can still use the UNIX version on MacOS X if you want). This combined with our support for internationalization (the ability to run AbiWord in many languages) gives AbiWord a massive potential user-base.Ĭurrently we run on most UNIX systems, Windows 95 and later, QNX Neutrino 6.2. Our source code is carefully written so that AbiWord will run on virtually any operating system with a minimum of time spent on porting. The goal of the project was the development of a cross-platform, Open Source office suite beginning with AbiWord, the project's word processor.ĪbiWord is unique among word processors in its drive to become a fully cross-platform word processor. Like most Open Source projects, AbiWord started as a cathedral, but has become more like a bazaar.ĪbiWord is part of a larger project known as AbiSource, which was started by the SourceGear Corporation.
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