AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft Word. It is suitable for typing papers, letters, reports, memos, etc. It is designed to integrate perfectly with the operating system it runs on. It will take advantage of the functionality provided by the system, such as image loading or printing capabilities.
- Make landscape documents print correctly on Windows and Linux
- Make copying and pasting from other applications work again on Windows
- Recover and import some corrupt OpenDocument files
- Improve OpenDocument textbox and image import
- Import and export equations from RTF documents
Reviewing 2.7.2 (May 27, 2009)
great, well above Wordpad but without being bloat.
don't let the few icons in the toolbar mislead u, and revise the menus!
now please, the interface! :(
Reviewing 2.6.8 (Mar 19, 2009)
When all you need is a word processor, why get the whole suite? This gem of an app and Gnumeric are all 90% of normal people need in their full-blown office suite. Abiword works well, runs on every OS, and I mean EVERY. Does all you need, has a portable version, and the native .abw format is extremely compressed, not to mention it will tar gzip files and untar gzip them as well. If you want a word processor, check this one out.
Reviewing 2.6.5 (Dec 4, 2008)
Word and Writer are great if you want to do complex stuff, or don't mind using software that takes a lot of resources even though you'll only use 1% of it's features, but for me, when on older hardware, this simple, quick-starting word processor fits the bill.
Reviewing 2.6.3 (May 29, 2008)
It's functional and it doesn't take up 500Mb on my hard drive. If you want Microsoft Office you're looking in the wrong place.
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