Re: ambitions of Abi-word

> > First and in advance I would like to apologize for my limited language
> > abilities. I’m not used to write English texts. I’m Dutch, so most
>
> ... likely your English will be better than most native speakers.
>
> Uwog (one of the developers) is dutch too.

If he is dutch, he must be a really cool guy!

> > I would very much like:
> > - a roadmap for Abi in general, so the ambitions are Clair to everybody.
>
> [Clair ... clear]
>
> Depends very much on what the developers decide to do.

We don't exactly know what to do with future versions, we're trying to
figure that out at the moment (at least I am) :)

> > What are Abi-Words ambitions?

AbiWord itself does not has ambitions. It all depends on what
contributers feel like adding. It's mostly an unstructured process.

> There are various plugins which can expand the Image support in Abiword.
> The ImageMagick plugin for example adds quite a large amount of image
> formats (might only be available on Linux, must check).

Note to Alan: I deleted the ImageMagick plugin about 3 months ago.

> > - way can’t Abi handle big documents? The program itself uses less
> > memory than Word or Writer so that can’t be the problem.

That's for the biggest part a problem of AbiWord's internal design. The
issues involved are known, someone 'just needs to implement the better
design'.

> > - will Abi change the default document format to ‘odt’ like OOo did?

Very unlikely. You can make it your default format if you wish though
using a setting in your profile. At the moment it is rather useless
though, as ODT export has not landed yet.

Marc

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Received on Thu Nov 17 21:04:42 2005