Release notes for 1.99.2 - aka AbiWord-2.0 Beta2
The AbiWord team continue to steam ahead for a world-rocking 2.0
release. Thanks very much to bug reporters. We've now made many, many
fixes to our first beta and thanks to Tomas Frydrych and his helpers we
now have ligature support for fontsets that support them. Users are
again invited to test AbiWord and report bugs found to
http://bugzilla.abisource.com/
Binaries for Windows and Linux for AbiWord 1.99.2 can be downloaded from
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=15518&release_id=170621
Enjoy!
The Abi the ant her intrepid Hackers.
Fixes since 1.99.1
Joaquín Cuenca Abela
Replace old "hand" cursor by a standard one on win32 (the old one looked
childish).
Create new right arrow mouse cursor.
Create function to detect if we're on a windows 95 OS.
Create new bottom line, top line and over line icons.
Remove local dependent bold, italic et al. icons.
Use everywhere the international icons
Fix windows printing code.
David Chart
Finish 1.99.1 changelog
Dom Lachowicz
Fix 5371,5276,4913,5326
Work towards having all import/exporters be able to copy and paste to
clipbaord.
Work for using libgda to lookup databases and import the data as Tables.
RTF import fixes.
Make perl bindings compile again
Unix ligature work.
Francis J. Franklin
Fix 4667, 4734
Code clean ups.
Don't alter filename when choosing a different filetype during import
Fix build a few times
Code for importing tables from XHTML
Open Text Summarizer fixes
Fixes for HTML/XHTML export/import to clipboard.
Remove gal dependencies
Remove curl download of Spell modules.
Fix casts
Lots of lots of builds and plugin build fixes
Andrew Dunbar
Fix bug 5320,5239,5240
Translation updates.
Fixed bugs in Indonesian, Irish, and Welsh strings files which
prevented them from loading.
Windows gave code SP instead of SR for Serbian language. Fixed.
Make Windows use lstrcmp instead of strcoll since Windows's Posix
locales
are very weird.
A case statement ended in a "break" where it should've ended in "return"
in Windos Insert Table dialog
Code clean ups
Language string fixes.
Updates to Australian English and Mexican Spanish barbarism files.
Hubert Figuiere
Fix warnings
Build fixes.
Optimization fix.
OSX Cut and Paste implemented.
OSX Tab dialog
OSX Word Count dialog fixes
OSX New File dialog
Removal gal dependencies. Strip out the widgets we need from GAL.
OSX Toolbar work.
OSX Menu bar work.
OSX text speed ups.
Jeremy Davis
Unicows.dll removal.
Jordi Mas
Fix 5311, 5077, 5331, 5290, 1234, 5268, 5165, 5231
Win32 Mail Merge Dialog
Many cursor fixes.
Many Plugin fixes
Leftruler in Normal View fix
Keyboard fixes
Plugin dialog box fixed.
Units fix for Insert Table in Win32
Center Dialog in Win32
Christian Neumair
Added "lock layout" and "reset to default layout" to View->Toolbar
options.
HIG for Insert Bookmark
Simplification of localization for Unix Dialogs
GLADE/HIGify the New Document dialog
Set a proper application name on the GTK/GNOME build
Mark Gilbert
Documentation fixes and improvements (including Mail Merge)
Fix memory bugs.
Fix Word Perfect plugin build.
Fix crash in Revisions Dialog.
Marc Maurer
Fix 5374,5266, 5275
Handle missing glade files gracefully
Fix printing of highlighted Text
Code cleanups and refactoring
Top ruler fixes for cell markers
Rodrigo Moya
libgda plugin fixes
Martin Sevior
Fix 5332, 5178, 5190, 5260, 5251
Fix a bug pasting text.
Fix a bug scrolling with big images.
Fix crash nesting Tables
Fix crash deleting a footnote at start of document.
Big improvements in selections , Especially for Tables.
Export footnote properties to RTF,.
Fix a crash and hang bug merging cells with footnotes.
Lots of speed ups, especially scrolling through huge tables. (1000 row
tables are acceptable now)
Fix symbols in unix (again). Various RTF import improvements.
RTF import/export fixes and improvements.
Make cursor blink at the Footnote insertion point after inserting a
footnote.
Improve MS Word Table import.(Particularly for tables spanning columns.)
Fix some Endnote bugs
Fix various crash bugs
Nadav Rotem
Open Text Summarizer improvements.
Summarizer support for Norwegian Nynorsk support by Karl Ove Hufthammer;
Dutch: Marc Maurer, Portugese: from Rui M. Silva Seabra
Johann Bjork
Fix so wv compiles without glib on qnx.
QNX Can now be built with either diving make or autoconf!
Pierre Abbat
Updated translation for Welsh and Spanish
Rui M. Silva Seabra
SPEC fixes for rpm building
plugin build fixes
Tomas Frydrych
Fix 5272
Changes to allow using AW native format for cut/paste
Enable win32 clipboard data on demand
Ligature support
fix hash value for fonts
No more remapGlyph. Yay!!!
Text drawing speed ups
Code clean ups
Raphael Finkel
Ligature fixes
New and Updated Translations
Spanish updates from Francisco Javier Fernández.
Hungarian updates from Tamas Decsi.
Polish updates from Andrzej Pruszynski.
Italian updates from Marco Innocenti.
Dutch update from Marc Maurier
New Belorussian translation from Vital Khilko.
French update from Gilles Saint-Denis.
Norwegian Nynorsk update from Karl Ove Hufthammer.
Basque (Euskara) update from Alfredo Barrainkua Zallo.
Slovenian update from Andraz Tori.
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