Re: ATTN: AbiWord v2.7.7 Released!

From: J.M. Maurer <uwog_at_uwog.net>
Date: Sat Jul 18 2009 - 01:16:56 CEST

On Sat, 2009-07-18 at 01:06 +0200, J.M. Maurer wrote:
> AbiWord v2.7.7 Released
>
> The AbiWord team joyfully announces AbiWord v2.7.7, the 8th snapshot of
> the development series that will lead to AbiWord 2.8.
>
> This snapshot allows interested developers, testers and users a sneak
> preview into the future of AbiWord.
>
> The changes from v2.7.6 to v2.7.7 include, amongst others:
>
> # Port the Cairo+Pango based renderer that is used by AbiWord on Linux
> to Mac OS X. This solves a whole list of longstanding rendering and
> layout problems that existed in our Mac OS X version. Note that we do
> not yet provide binaries for Mac OS X, but developers might be
> interested in looking at the port.
> # Allow SVG images to be used as positioned objects, to be copied and
> pasted, and to be exported to HTML.
> # Improve the handling of Smart Quotes.
> # Support mail merge fields and page size/page orientation in the Office
> Open XML importer. Support JPEG images in the exporter.
> # Make the equation editor available on Windows again.
>
> The full Changelog can be found here.

That would be at:

  http://abisource.com/changelogs/2.7.7.phtml

Marc
Received on Sat Jul 18 01:19:43 2009

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