Download Abiword 2.6.5

The Abisource community today released version 2.6.5 of the open source word processor Abiword. Available for Windows and Linux, the program is capable of opening and editing various document formats, including those from Microsoft Word, Openoffice.org, Wordperfect, and regular RTF documents. Furthermore, the functionality of Abiword can be extended with plugins and dictionaries extensive. This release finally fixes the issue in the Windows version where “totally random” some plugins were not loading. Also, for the Linux version, font rendering has been re-enabled and layout issues have been resolved, which was a regression from Abiword 2.4.x release. Below are the release notes for version 2.6.5:

This release includes the following changes (and more!):

• Added our first iteraton of an Office Open XML filter. Features supported are: formatted text, formatted paragraphs, page breaks, columns, tab stops, footnotes, endnotes, headers/footers, fields, images, hyperlinks, bookmarks, lists, tables, and text boxes.
• Vastly improved LaTeX export filter, which even supports exporting equations now.
• Fixed a couple of annoying crashes in the GTK frontend, for example when overwriting a file or inserting a symbol.
• Fixed a bug that prevented the correct shaping of glyphs for complex scripts such as Arabic.

The full changelog can be found here.[break]