AbiWord v2.7.7 Changelog

Core

• Bug 5822: Editing text under or next to an image darkens it (Martin Sevior)
• Bug 9434: Crash when editing Word document (Martin Sevior)
• Bug 12080: Disable smart quote conversions when undoing and pasting (Martin Sevior)
• Bug 12198: Crash when inserting a header (Martin Sevior)
• Bug 12202: Extra paragraphs are created when reopening files with annotations (Martin Sevior)
• Allow SVGs to be copied and pasted (Martin Sevior)
• Fix a crash when copying images (Martin Sevior)
• Retain width and height settings when generating images for positioned objects (Martin Sevior)

GUI

Cross-platform

• Bug 8307: Standardize shortcut keys for subscript, superscript, and zooming (Martin Sevior)
  • Zoom in: Ctrl + =
  • Zoom out: Ctrl + -
  • Superscript: Ctrl + Shift + 6 (Ctrl + ^)
  • Subscript: Ctrl + Shift + - (Ctrl + _)
• Bug 12187: Images aren't unselected properly (Martin Sevior)
• Speed up the text renderer used on Linux and Mac (Robert Wilhelm)

Linux

• Allow SVGs to be used as positioned objects and background images (Martin Sevior)
• Clarify the tooltip for the replace button in the annotation dialog (Marc Maurer)
• Speed up SVG rendering (Martin Sevior)

Mac

• Bug 8012: Combining Diacritical Marks do not work (Hubert Figuiere)
• Bug 8023: Punctuation marks are not erased properly (Hubert Figuiere)
• Bug 8048: Certain fonts are not spaced properly (Hubert Figuiere)
• Bug 8109: Low hanging characters are not erased correctly (Hubert Figuiere)
• Bug 8352: Text selections have small holes in them and are not entirely contiguous (Hubert Figuiere)
• Bug 8384: Text justification doesn't work properly (Hubert Figuiere)
• Bug 8676: Rendering problems with Arabic letter forms (Hubert Figuiere)
• Bug 9564: Bidirectional text is not rendered correctly (Hubert Figuiere)
• Bug 9597: The caret is incorrectly placed and overlaps text (Hubert Figuiere)
• Bug 9615: Incorrectly spaced letters with the Mac version (Hubert Figuiere)
• Bug 12201: Use the Cairo and Pango renderer in the Mac build (Hubert Figuiere)

Windows

• Bug 11800: Bullets and numbering dialog can't be reopened (Marc Maurer)
• Bug 12169: Incorrect file extension used when saving an image (sum1)
• Bug 12189: Don't convert JPEGs to PNGs internally (Marc Maurer)
• Bug 12196: JPEGs are not displayed (Marc Maurer)
• Make the icons in the split cells and merge cells dialogs larger for easier use (Marc Maurer)

Import/Export

HTML

• Bug 12152: Export SVGs to HTML (Marc Maurer)
• Fix some crashes related to file names in the exporter (Marc Maurer)

Office Open XML (docx)

• Bug 12180: Exported documents that contain JPEGs cannot be opened by Word (Firat Kiyak)
• Handle white space between tags in the importer (Firat Kiyak)
• Import and export page size and page orientation (Firat Kiyak)
• Support mail merge fields in the importer and exporter (Firat Kiyak)

RTF

• Bug 12192: Add support for SVGs to the importer and exporter (Martin Sevior)

Installer

• Bug 12182: Package the math plug-in on Windows (Marc Maurer)
• Bug 12214: Readme file is no longer shown after installation (Ryan Pavlik)
• Standardize plug-in names in the installer (Ryan Pavlik)

Internationalization

• Update the Basque (eu-ES) translation (Mikel Pascual)
• Update the Slovak (sk-SK) translation (Jaroslav Rynik)
• Update the Slovenian (sl-SI) translation (Martin Srebotnjak)

Plug-ins

Collaboration

• Bug 12110: Add account dialog is not refreshed properly when changing account type (Marc Oude Kotte)
• Fix the X button in the collaboration accounts dialog (Marc Oude Kotte)

Development

Cross-platform

• Bug 12211: Add comments to explain unreached layout code (Martin Sevior)
• Bug 12216: Mismatched braces when using certain conditionals in the Word importer (Ryan Pavlik, Hubert Figuiere)
• Add support for implementing colors as patterns with the Cairo back-end (Hubert Figuiere)
• Fix some allocation mismatches in the WordPerfect and human-readable text plug-ins (Hubert Figuiere)
• Make sure the normal templates are always installed to prevent invalid margin settings (Marc Maurer)
• Make the Cairo rendering code more modular for non-GTK+ platforms (Hubert Figuiere)
• Release and maintain 2.7.7 (Marc Maurer)
• Remove obsolete developer documents from the source tree (Hubert Figuiere)

Mac

• Bug 11699: libpng is outdated in the ports SDK (Hubert Figuiere)
• Add libwpd, libwpg, and link-grammar back to the ports SDK (Hubert Figuiere)
• Add preliminary, but non-functional support for GtkMathView to the ports SDK (Hubert Figuiere)
• Remove an obsolete enchant patch from the ports SDK (Hubert Figuiere)
• Update various dependencies for building with trunk in the ports SDK (Hubert Figuiere)
• Update wvWare to 1.2.6 in the ports SDK (Hubert Figuiere)

Maemo

• Bug 12159: Install one .desktop file instead of three (Hubert Figuiere)

Windows

• Add the math plug-in to the VC++ build (Marc Maurer)
• Remove a duplicate line from the resource file for the join dialog in the collaboration plug-in (Marc Oude Kotte)